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Crazy Friday!
May 17, 2013- Oh boy! The girls are excited this morning! Today is Crazy Friday at school….that means you can dress up in a crazy concocted costume. I can't think of any kids that don't like dressing up in silly, crazy and funny costumes!!?! (can you????) Annika just asked Mark for help creating her costume.…
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neighbors..
June 4, 2013- Know what's fun????? Having friends who live on your block who love getting together. Tonight we had four different families over for a simple but fun meal (Chinese take-out…YES! We also can get Chinese take-out!!!!!) …Debbie & her 2 boys, Jennifer, Brian & their two cute kiddies, Kathy and Holly &…
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another gaggle of giggling girls!
May 31, 2013- Are you up for a gaggle of girls spending the night????? You'd better be because it's going to be rocking LOUD fun tonight!!!!! We're celebrating Andreina's adoption birthday. :-) Hey! Do you remember the fun decorations from the last gaggle of girls we had over last week? Well, I left those up…
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end of school year = mixed emotions
Lately, I'm a train wreck. Or that I'm on a train that's about to wreck. Okay…so I'm not a train but perhaps you get the picture. It's been a rough couple of weeks. You know that feeling of anxiety filling dread combined with the anticipation of joy? Yeah- I'm feeling that now. Not my most…
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furniture shopping in Beijing
June 2, 2013- Whoops! I totally forgot to mention yesterday…."HAPPY CHILDRENS' DAY!!!!!" Isn't every day childrens' day? It certainly feels like it around here when we've got a gaggle of girls coming for a sleep-over. Want to go check out furniture in Beijing. No? Too bad! Claudia and I are heading to Beijing right…
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About me:
Ten things you may not know about me: 1. I’m the worst person to watch movies with. I flinch & hide at everything! I wish I was kidding…sadly I’m not! 2. I DO love watching “Murder She Wrote”. Yep…that’s more my speed. 3. That being said…I watched the new “Star Trek” movie today …and…
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Building codes??? What are those?
May 31, 2013- HEY! It's *bleeping* early in the morning! What's with all the hammering and banging and grinding noises happening in our neighborhood??? Several of the houses in our block and in our subdivision are having work done on them. And the noise in CONSTANT and freaking annoying. Oh my HEAD! Make the…
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Great Wall “Fun Run” 2013
May 18, 2013- 3:00 am- TIME TO GET UP!!!!! Wakey, wakey! Today is the Great Wall Run!!! Eat a small bowl of cereal & a banana. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I wanna go back to bed! 3:30 am- Time to walk over to Angela's house. Angela has organized a bus for a group of us expats running today.…
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blog is Under (re)Construction
May 28, 2013- Sorry for the mess… I just felt that it was time I bit the bullet and update the look and feel of this old blog. I'm taking an online course from Jessica Sprague called "Bloom Your Blog" to help me (hopefully) turn my blog from good into great! So far it looks…
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People’s Park in Tianjin
April 28, 2013- I've had this goal in my head to learn how to use my big fancy schmancy DSLR Canon camera by photographing different places in Tianjin. Our expat friends have mentioned at various different times that People's Park is an interesting location, especially early in the morning when the Chinese are out doing…