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It started with Easter weekend. I baked a double batch of chocolate chip cookies with m&ms to take to Faith’s house for Easter Sunday. I baked 86 cupcakes for Emersyn to take to school on Monday to sell for the charity of the month, Baobei. I made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and chocolate […]

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Eleri’s class had an Animal Zoo Museum to showcase their work on animals. The children picked an animal from the field trip to the zoo to do more research. See Shanghai Zoo Trip. Eleri decided the zebra would be a good animal choice since we saw them in South Africa. She was telling us […]

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I have always been a label reader. I don’t read the label necessarily for calories, but my main interested is the hidden sugars and salt. Pasta sauce can be full of sugar. I like to glance at the ingredients to see what is in the item I am buying. However, since we moved to […]

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Faith sent Jennifer and I an email asking if we wanted to attend a cooking class at the Kerry Center. The cooking class was titled, “Life’s Like a Box of Chocolate” – how can we say no to that title. For 300rmb ($47) per person, we attended class from 9am to 1pm, but lasted […]

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Eleri loves to make. She made this Easter card for us.

I found this for the Easter bunny after I was cleaning up the Easter fun.

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The girls woke up to find Easter baskets left by the Easter Bunny. Emersyn was up first – not the normal in this house anymore as she heads into the teen years. She woke up Eleri as they were excited to see what the Easter Bunny left for them this year.

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It’s Spring Break for the girls and Quingming Chinese holiday for Jim. Jim has Monday and Tuesday off for Ching Ming – Tomb Sweeping Day. The Qingming Festival (清明节, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong), Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice. […]