Of all the interesting shopping opportunities in Chennai, Cotton Street has to be my favorite. It’s a dusty dead-end street with tables lining the side. Every afternoon, men pull up on bikes with attached wagons (sort of like rickshaws) laden with cotton fabrics and for-export clothing made in near by factories. They proceed to unload [...]
I am not an expert on India nor am I a well traveled person. All I can tell you is what I saw and what I thought about it. What I am is a middle class, white, American woman with the beginnings of jowls and turtle skin neck.
Of all the places I dreamed of [...]
Peter has become quite a character lately. When he wants something he yells for it at the top of his lungs like, “COOOOOKIE DOOOOOOOUGH PLEEEEEEEESE!” or he lowers his voice to a growl at the end of his request. He has also taken a fascination with small cars and trains, especially crashing them together. He [...]
So Emma likes many things but at the top of the list would have to be cheese and cake. Here are some pictures of here recently eating a block of cheese Neanderthal style as well as decorating and eating a cake she made with her mommy. - Gene
Mom and Dad spent the last three weeks in India visiting Gavin. By request, they brought me back some Fancy New Threads.
We took advantage of a kind offer from one of Shane’s co-workers this weekend and ferried/drove out to Port Townsend and Discovery Bay for a family overnighter. We took Kingston Ferry to Port Townsend. The kids love ferry rides and I realized on this trip how unique it is to take ferries places since there [...]
Recently we have started “school” at our house. Besides our reading lessons we mainly do fun activities making things that can teach ideas to children. The mask activity was for imagination play and they had lots of fun anticipating scaring Shane when he got home. Peter was dubbed “Speed” by Marie and Oliver, but [...]
So we’ve officially reached the one year mark in India. We have seen Chennai in all three of it’s famous seasons: hot, hotter, and hottest. (Can’t even COUNT the times that a local has used that joke, then laughed like crazy.) And I believe we are pretty well acclimated here (which, of course, means that [...]
This year there were almost enough cousins to act out the full nativity. We’re just short a few wise men. Madeline was Mary, Colby was Joseph (and probably will be for years to come), Isabelle was an Angel, Lucy was Baby Jesus, and Emma was a sheep.
Morning consists of breakfast and then yelling “Goodbye!” out the window to Daddy as he leaves in the car. Then it’s reading scriptures together. There is the usual tussle about who goes first and if we can have a, “family” scripture reading i.e. I don’t want to wait for my turn with Mom. Peter usually [...]
Second half of Christmas post to come soon… I am missing a few pictures I want to post.
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