  
When we first moved to JiuJiang, Hubs met Farmer Hu while on a bike ride. Farmer Hu lived out in the countryside. He had about 6 milk cows. His price on milk was excellent (3rmb/liter), but the problem was that he had to borrow a car to deliver fresh milk to our home. Sometimes he [Continue reading Dairy Adventures Continue: Buttermilk] 
First, a few photos from November… 11.03.10 33 weeks and 5 days pregnant The conversation went something like this: me: Hubs can you take an everyday life shot of me in the kitchen with my big prego belly? he: Sure, but the apron kind of hides your belly. 11.07.10 34 weeks and 2 [Continue reading Baby #3 at 37 weeks] 
There’s a small space beside the microwave that holds all my cookbooks. For a while now, I’ve been printing off recipes and placing them in the blue binder. (Hubs: Where they’ve been growing like bowl of rising bread dough.) Whenever I needed a recipe, I just grabbed it from the blue binder (the [Continue reading Nesting: Our Family Cookbook] 
We had a simple Black Friday this year. No rushing from store to store. (At 37 weeks pregnant, I can hardly rush anywhere.) No on-line shopping. Schäfer went to preschool. Hubs and I made phone calls home because Friday morning in China is Thursday evening in America. We all enjoyed leftovers for lunch. Most importantly, [Continue reading Black Friday 2010] 
Happy Thanksgiving 2010 We woke up at 6:30am hoping to enjoy a nice warm shower and a little bit of quiet before waking the kids. Oh well. They were both already awake. I dressed the kids in their warm room while Hubs donned his selected flannel of the day. Thankfully, [Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving 2010] 
We give thanks for the pumpkin loaf that is in the oven. Whew. What a week… and it’s only Wednesday. On Sunday our helper requested a 2 month leave of absence due to the death of her father. It was quite a surprise – especially considering how much I needed her help as I [Continue reading Twas the Night Before Turkey] |