who taught you that?

yet another flippant remark bites me in the arse.

we like to have them feel like they are making a choice in the activities we sign them up for. tennis or soccer? swim or gymnastics? taco asked to add ski'ing to the rotation. all we saw were dollar signs and immediately responded, 'not now maybe when you're older, say 10 yrs old'. our final convincing argument was that his friend who is 11 and that he idolizes only started a couple years ago. success, that bought us at least 5 years. somehow amidst all the discussion i made the flippant comment 'filipinos don't ski'. oh he latched onto that one. why not? i left it to j1 to explain that there's no snow in the philippines and so filipinos living in the philippines don't ski. he left out the part that all those filipinos that came to the u.s. (aka taco's grandparents) STILL don't ski. pues, entonces, we, the next generation didn't grow up skiing either.

so what does taco ask me this morning?

'mom, can korean's ski?'

aye anak.