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Until living in China, I did not realize how hard it is to buy products when you can’t read the package. In Hong Kong, everything is in English. In Shanghai, most product packaging is in Chinese. Even if I know the Chinese word for the item, I still don’t know the Chinese characters. This […]

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Elle is our little disaster girl. She loves to “make” and do crafts. She will disappear and you know she is making a mess somewhere while she “creates”. She is very good at leaving her mess. She had left her craft mess all over the floor in Emeryn’s office. I sent her back to […]

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Eleri is still at that age where she says cute things. However, her sayings are starting to disappear. For the longest time, a hamburger was a hamgaba. The whole family used to joke about going out for a “hamgaba”.

With the two girls, Emersyn, with more hair than most adults, usually wakes with […]

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The annual Daddy Daughter Dance for Girl Scouts this year is a Tropical Paradise theme. Eleri is finally old enough to be in Girl Scouts. She is a Daisy. Girl Scouts is organized through Concordia. The school is very supportive of the program for Girl/Boy Scouts. The meetings are held after school in the […]

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The first adventure in 2010…Harbin, China. Harbin is located in the far north region of China near the vast sub-Siberian plains. We have had Harbin on our list of places to visit for the last few years. A couple of reasons have kept us from Harbin. One it is very cold, -30c/-22f. […]