Category: Family

Pandemic Home School Diary Day 2

Before I had kids, I thought I would be a homeschooling mom. As soon as I had kids, I realized that wasn’t going to work....

Pandemic Home School Diary Day 1

Before I had kids, I thought I would be a homeschooling mom. Then I met my oldest extra-extroverted daughter and knew it was out of...

Crowne Plaza

When we traveled to Qingdao, China in 2007 to meet our daughter, we stayed in the Crowne Plaza. I’m not really a hotel person –...

Discovery Bay – Home Away From Home

I have never come closer to cancelling a trip than last November. When I booked our tickets to Hong Kong, the protests hadn’t started yet....

Boonie Bears

When my oldest daughter was ten, she and I visited her birth city, Qingdao. Every day, we woke up early and gorged ourselves on the...