She is my daughter, the newness who has taken over our lives and our priorities. The blessing of it all. Does everyone fall in love with their child? December 29, 2009.

The last couple of months has been a bit of a blur. For nice reasons mostly, hubby hit a big birthday, as a result Paris. first holiday without children and we never stopped laughing. No mid life crisis is complete without some expense or at best an impulsive purchase.

Traveling to Korea and China for the first time. One project I hoped to work on during any free time on the cross cultural trip to China was genealogy research. As explained in a previous post. I have a family history tie to the city of Hangzhou, were we spent two weeks. My great-uncle, Ellis Shannon was an aviation instructor at the Central Aviation Academy in the 1930s. One unexpected bonus of this cross cultural t.

Random insight from an unwanted houseguest. This time last year, I made and kept my three no-thought-required-oh-so-simple resolutions.