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Another snow day in Shanghai. This is the second winter out of five that it has snowed in Shanghai. It is always an amazing view from our deck on the 29th floor. The World Finance Center and the Jin Mao Towers are seen in the clouds from our deck. The view […]
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Eleri’s teacher, Ms Shepard, has a “Papas and Popcorn” fun activity. Each month a Papa comes to the class to read a book to the children. He brings in two bags of popcorn for the children to enjoy while the Dad reads the story. The elementary school has three microwaves in the commons. Jim […]
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Every year the girls go to Aunt Nancy’s to help with Christmas cookies. I do think “help” is the strong term. The term would be “to have fun” and “make a mess” at Aunt Nancy’s. They make about four different kinds of cookies – sugar cookies, peanut butter kisses, chocolate chip and my favorite, […]
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Each year the girls decorate gingerbread houses with Aunt Nancy. Gingerbread making with Nancy is a one of their favorite Christmas traditions. This year, the only weekend to make houses was Saturday, December 18. We had planned to drive to Tahoe on Friday, but moved it back a day as both girls did NOT […]
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I always love the cards the girls make for the holidays. Eleri made her card at school during art time. Average Rating: 4.6 out of 5 based on 293 user reviews. { “@context”: “http://schema.org/”, “@type”: “Review”, “datePublished”:”June 3, 2026″, “itemReviewed”: { “@type”: “Product”, “name”: “Male Enhancement Pills” }, “reviewRating”: { “author”: { [ | | | | ]
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Every year Terri and Andy take the girls to the San Francisco Nutcracker. Terri began the tradition when Emersyn was three. They treat the girls to a nice dinner in the City, the show and a Nutcracker. Each year, Terri and Andy buy the girls a Nutcracker to add to their collections. […]
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Another year has passed as we get ready for the Christmas Holiday. The girls always have a short list of “wants” from Santa. The advantage of no tv is no commercials. The have no idea about the latest, greatest toy – Love it!! Emersyn had said she wanted a sewing machine and Eleri […]
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The SEA (Shanghai Expat Association) Christmas lunch Party is a big event. Eleri and I went last year with Jennifer and Sophie. This year, I renewed my membership because Eleri had so much fun. This was Emersyn’s first time for SEA Christmas party. We arranged seating to be with the Jenkins (Jennifer, Sean & […]
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Eleri’s Christmas performance was held on Tuesday, December 7 in the Rittmann Theater at 6:30pm. It was grade 1 & 2 students of Ms Camp’s music classes. The advantages of being small is the front row option! The children performed the “The Songs of Christmas” They sang the following list […]
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Field trip t-shirt…check, clip board…check, pencil…check – ready to go! This field trip is to the Coca-cola bottling factory. It is only 10 minutes from school for a nice short ride in the bus. We arrived to watch a short film on the history of Coca-Cola. We learned […] |