I seem to be engaged

wooooooooooooooooooooow! EL! i'm sooooooooooooooooooo happy fer yah! ^o^

wedding in china? are we all invited? 

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!

Depends - what are you doing in early April?

Damn... So much to do.  Got to figure out where to host this.  Got to get some wedding clothes (she's getting a proper Chinese wedding dress - Red), got to find a competent photo studio, etc., etc.

Engaged at 21?  After being together 2 weeks?    I like to think of myself as a romantic, but come on.

sweet indeed.  life is more interesting when shared with those you love. I often think how lucky i am to see expressions of purity and simpleness here, in the west we would barrage such gestures with comments that destroy the beautiful humanness of it. im sure many of you know what i mean. I remember in the late 80's taking my daughter for a pee (she would have been 4 or 5 years old) and having to be careful nobody saw as i would be stamped a child molester.  im not so naive to say it doesnt happen here but there is still an innocence here which i hope will never change and your act from the heart, EL, to me, shows that too.
 

Really? I feel shocked by that,but the girl is only 4 or 5 years old! It is quite common for fathers here to take their daughters for a pee no matter how old they are as far as I know.

Whatever you do, unless your mother is completely on board with your getting married to her, don't let her write the invitation, otherwise it might look like this:



But hopefully your mother will say the same thing mine did when she met her. "She's definately a keeper. By the way, you mess up, you're so gone and she gets your old room." 

Happily, I didn't have to worry about that.  My darling wife won't get to meet her in-laws for at least a few more months.

To prepare her, I've shown her both Meet the Parents and Meet the Fokkers.