May 31

May is for Ma(y)ngo

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May is kind of a mixed bag here in Chennai.  There is an indescribable heat that descends upon southern India in May.  It is a …

May 28

Australia: Chatswood

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We spent the second part of our trip in a suburb north of the city called Chatswood.  I carefully chose a hotel that was close …

May 27

Australia: Sydney Harbour and Manly

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I bet you want to know more about Sydney, right?!  Well, maybe not.  But bear with me.  I promise I’ll be back to blogging random …

May 25

Oliver’s Birthday Fun!

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We had a lot of fun for Oliver’s birthday.  Shane headed off to work and I put aside all my chores to read with the kids.  Then because it was sunny out we went for a long walk and visited all three parks in our area.  After lunch Daddy got home and the playing and

May 25

Australia: Darling Harbour

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After arriving at the Sydney Airport, we then proceeded to hop on the train to the city.  The railway system in Sydney is awesome.  You …

May 23

The end of the rainbow.

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Shane took this shot one day right when he got home from work.  Ironically the house itself is the money pit at the end of the rainbow, but the people that live in it are definitely the gold.  After all who wouldn’t enjoy people comfortable wearing these sunglasses. 

May 23

Australia: On the Way

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Australia was great.  We even appreciated some of the lesser-noticed wonders of the city like clean (and frequent) public bathrooms, sidewalks (and they weren’t even …

May 21

Homeschooling at our house.

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We have been working into a “school” schedule at our house so when the baby comes we already have something going and can take a break of sorts until we normalize out.  In fact it has been so gradual that Marie didn’t even know she was doing “school” until she told me that she wanted More >

May 20

Bilingual

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We’re having a great holiday here in Oz.  We’ve had lots of time to muck around.  Every day after brekkie, I throw on some lippie …

May 16

The new “Sandbox”

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The debate has been waging at our house about what to do with our back yard play area.  We got rid of the old sand box and didn’t want to put down wood chips again since the kids get slivers from them.  The kids gave us their own opinion by playing in the pile of

May 15

Mother’s Day

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We have been really busy at our house so these pictures are late.  My mothers day started Friday when Shane came home with a bench for the front yard and a beautiful Japanese maple for the back yard.
On Saturday Marie and I spent some girl time shopping for flowers to finally finish filling in our More >

May 15

An inspiring day of sight seeing

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So we are on vacation again. While arriving at the first of our planned sights today we found much of the venue closed. The good …

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