Watch, Read, Listen

Warning: This post contains lots of photos!*   Are you ready to go on a journey? Well, go grab your things because we're about to board a bullet train headed to Shanghai! (I'll wait while you get your stuff….I won't leave without you!) First we have to head over to the beautiful and nearly brand-spanking…

Happy Birthday to my darling Ava!   She just turned SIX YEARS OLD!   Wow! My how you've grown!  I can't believe six years ago you were this tiny babe in my arms and now you're running, jumping, playing, reading, coloring and making lots of new friends.  I'm so proud of you!     Ava…

Happy belated Valentine's Day!!!!?! ummmm….so I guess I need to keep up with my blog posts!   I just wanted to share with you some of the sugar cookies we baked for Valentine's Day (they were devoured the weekend before the Big Heart Day).     Annika and I made sugar cookie dough on Saturday…

Coming soon to a blog near you…. a post on our recent expedition to Shanghai!   (only have a few hundred photos to sort through…..)

Did you know that we have our very own Super Cute Animal Expert?????? The kindergarten classes at IST put on a delightfully fun and entertaining presentation at the Friday morning school assembly recently. They got to share with students from nursery through grade 2 (and parents!!) what they'd learned in their Unit of Inquiry (UOI)….which was all about…

Here is a collection of photos that I'm having trouble categorizing.  They're just little glimpses into what life is like here.  The good, the bad and the ugly, or at least different.     Here is one of my favorite parts about being in China:   Mandarin Oranges! The REAL mandarin oranges!!!! They are quite…

Howdy Folks.  Guest Blogger Mark here.  I just got back from my first "domestic" business trip here in China.  Why would I blog about a business trip?  Well…I wouldn't.  I'm not.  This isn't about business at all.  Thing is the place I traveled to was really cool (OK it was really COLD), and I wanted…

About once a week I try to navigate my way over to Ruijiang Fruit & Vegetable Market.  During our first week in Tianjin a very kind mom (also an expat from the US) introduced us to this market. Thank you Angela! .  I didn't bring a camera with me on my first trip there but now…

We found a barbershop walking distance from our house.  We could tell it was a barbershop since it had the barber's poles in front of the shop.  :-) It's a good thing we found it as Annika desperately needed a haircut!     Washing Annika's very long hair   After washing her hair they wrapped…

As most of you already know, Saturdays have now become our Go Explore Tianjin Day.  We try to see a part of the city we haven't seen yet.  Right now that's pretty easy for us as it's all still new to us! One Saturday a few whirlwind weekends ago we had our driver drop us…