Things only a close friend or spouse would point out...

Yes, Ruby and I were born in Houston but sometimes you wouldn't know it by the way we talk. We apparently have a tendency to directly translate Chinese into our every day speech or else we picked up phrases from our parents that were not quite proper English - but we never really noticed it - until our friend and spouses pointed it out. :)

It all began freshman year in college with our dear friend Amee. When either Ruby and I would make a phone call and the other line was busy, we would say "it's line busy" instead of "the line is busy." Who knew??

One time when Bryce and I were making a road trip, I set my car to "cruise speed at 70 mph." Little did I know I actually "set my cruise control to 70 mph."

Here's one that Bryce has pointed out to me and Matt did the same to Ruby and we later found out we were both called out for it by our respective spouses. Apparently at one point we both said to our spouses we were "eating our medicine" instead of "taking our medicine." And in our defense, we tried to explain that in Chinese, the word "to eat" and "take" for medicine is the same!!

Something similar happened at the Baker household yesterday. Bryce had planned to mow the lawn and wash the cars at some point on Sunday. With his skin, I try to encourage him to do these things either earlier in the day or around 5 PM when the sun is less intense. But in my case, I said "when the sun isn't at its biggest." Do people say that? Because in Chinese, if it's a sunny day, you literally say "the sun was very big" so it made sense in my mind. But alas, Bryce corrected me once again.

For all you ABC's out there, you know what I'm talking about. I'll make a point to teach Abby the correct way...