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The girls have an extra long spring break this year, BUT Emersyn was off on her leadership adventure in the Kunming mountains. Emersyn arrived home on Friday evening to tell her tales. We enjoyed the excitement in her voice as she gave us details of her adventure. Saturday was for laundry and packing for […]
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Valentine’s Day started off with homemade cards – my favorite. Emersyn made her cards with red paper and white-out. One for Mom. One for Dad. One for Eleri. Eleri made the same kind of card for Mom, Dad […]
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The house was decorated for Chinese New Year! Tradition is to decorate the outside, so we did. We have our Chinese knot and firecrackers. Inside we had a few more various items to hang up. The girls love decorating. I took this photo of Eleri at […]
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We had many discussions about going to Tahoe this year. With the attic project, we seemed to be running out of time very fast. It was decided to not go to the snow…but, I wasn’t sure I was happy with that decision. Therefore, a bit more discussions and we decided to squeeze in Tahoe […]
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Christmas morning – the anticipation of waiting for Santa. The girls were up early at 6am. They had fun waking everyone up for Christmas morning presents. The girls running down the stairs is my favorite part. I love the expressions on their faces. Santa filled their stockings with underwear […]
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Christmas eve and the tree was decorated and full of presents BEFORE Santa even arrived. The nutcrackers are on displayed on the fireplace to add to the festive decorations. Terri and Andy buy the girls a nutcracker every year so the collection continues to grow. We took […]
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Justin is staying the weekend with us as he travels through Asia for business. I gathered Eleri from a sleepover birthday party (12 eight/nine year olds) which she reported was fun, of course! Then, we went to the Dulwich Fair. The Dulwich Fair is fun when the weather is nice since it is mostly […]
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Thanksgiving was officially on Thursday, November 22, but we celebrated on Friday. In the past, we have spent a long weekend in Yangshou. This year we gave up our adventure Thanksgiving to stay in Shanghai. On Thanksgiving Thursday, Emersyn and Avery had a fun filled teen day. Our driver, Mr. Nie, drove […]
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The girls were all excited to decorate for Christmas. Since we are leaving December 15 for America, we decorated early. We pulled out our limited supplies from the closet. I could easily have more supplies as MOST Christmas items are made in China, but I have no place to store them. The girls had […]
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It October break – National Week. We had planned to stay in Shanghai, but at the last minute decided to visit the Silk Road. Of course, October is the best time for the weather and the worst time for travel. Everyone in China has this week off. It drives the airfares up which is […] |