Boy Forgotten

Today I won the Worst Mommy Award. Someone needs to give me a medal made out of a rusty, jagged tin-can lid. I deserve it. Olivia stayed hom...

Stolen. Snow.

Stolen. My bike was stolen. **sob** I'm grieving because I have three months left in China and riding my bike was one of my favorite thi...

Another First

The whole family bundled up and attended the Tianjin Golden Lions' basketball game tonight. It was our first China Basketball Associati...

I Hope I'm Wrong

I may be wrong about this, and I hope I am. Tonight Aaron and I are going on a date. Here's the scary part: I think it's the first d...

Sophie Update

Sophie is now 4 1/2 months old. 66cm long -- 26 inches 8kg -- going on 18 pounds Growing eyelashes. Very blue eyes. Hair color still undecid...

BOOM!

No sleeping here tonight. It's the first full moon after the Lunar New Year. Also known as Lantern Festival. Which means we get a firewo...

Frozen World

Looking out the airplane window at the flat Tianjin countryside below, I surprised myself. I thought it was pretty. Frozen canals, frozen fi...