Friday, March 30, 2018

Did she finally come around?

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Last week my mom surprised me. When I left Brazil 22 years ago next June, my mom desperately sobbed and cried at the airport. Over the yea...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Safely Back!

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Both of my "babies" made it back safely! My washer and drier were very full last night, but my heart was fuller! ;-) P.S. the ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Childless for Four Days...

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... after having an only son for a week. In about 18 hours I won't be childless anymore and in about 20-21 hours our family will be co...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

16 Years a Mother/ Trip Update

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On Friday my oldest turned 16 and I enjoyed spending about half an hour with him right next to me in our bed (with my husband putting away h...
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Friday, February 09, 2018

Glimpse of my Food Vocab Presentation

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Edited to add another image that I hope will work. This is the first page of the presentation that pulled an all nighter to prepare. It...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Yoga!!!

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Finally, after nearly two months, I made it to yoga this morning!! I was really sad that it didn't work out for me to go during the whol...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

An All Nighter

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I pulled an all nighter. And all I got to show for it was a few NI ("needs improvement") categories in my class observation eval...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

(Long Overdue) Update

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I'm sure I have one or more posts with this exact same* title, but I don't mind.    *this is possibly one of those "wrong,...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Blogging and Motherhood - or When Heather Armstrong Made Me Cry (back in 2008)

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WOW... This post took nearly TEN YEARS to see the light of day, how crazy is that?!? I thought of it in May of 2008, began to write it in Fe...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The worst or the best moment to become a citizen?

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So, yeah... Our citizenship interview is scheduled for Thursday. I didn't really blog about this, I only mentioned it in passing in on...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

From Summer to Winter — Bedding edition ;-)

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This is one of the things I did on January first. It was/is so cold this year that even though I adore our two year old Spring & Summer ...
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Last Day/ First Day

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"Yesterday"  (meaning Tuesday, 1/16, I'm still awake, so it's still Wednesday for me) was my last day of the winter break,...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Goodbye Spring-Summer Look, Hello Fall-Winter! (Living-Room edition)

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I wrote most of this post on 10/2, but only managed to upload the photos on 11/23/17 & 1/15/18! This post is almost two months overdue!...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Family Internationalization - 2018 Update

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Eleven and a half years ago in 2006, I documented our family's "internationalization" on the blog when my brother moved to Ch...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Retroactive Blogging or 17/71

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Written last week on 1/4 : It's not about the 77 posts, it's more about getting posts from last year out of the drafts folder and s...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

In 2018...

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... I hope no one in our family dies (first thing I wrote back in Dec. 2016 ). Thankfully nobody did in 2017, unlike 2016. I think this will...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Happy New Year!

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Yeah... I never got to post and reach my goal of 77 posts in 2017. So lame! Sigh... We left the rental house past 11 am, and since we ha...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Vacation/Family Reunion Blogging

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Since I started blogging 13 years ago, our family spent several holidays (Christmas & New Year's or at least New Year's Eve) wit...

In 2017...

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... I had two amazing trips that were only 7-8 days long: to the West Coast with my son, his teacher, and the Robotics team (May 1-8) and to...

MARVELous Movie Marathon

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First part written on 6/22/17, second part written on 1/9/18, but retroactively dated from 12/31/17.  It used to be our tradition -- after...