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Finally Negative

So that was fun… Finally, I have tested negative for COVID. Last Monday, I started to get a scratchy throat. Then by Tuesday, I had a bit of a fever. Wednesday and Thursday, I had a high fever. Then it was a lot of coughing and exhaustion. I didn’t actually […]

It’s Good News and Bad News

We received news yesterday that we would be able to continue on with online lessons for the international schools. We talked about it this morning in my advisory period. The kids felt so much better. They weren’t happy about the idea of having their summer break during a time that […]

Junk with the Bub

Bub and I were invited on a junk trip. We’ve been a few of these before. The first one ever with the kids was a few years ago. Both Bub and Monster ended up sick. Since then, Bub has successfully attended another junk, but he’s not big on the swimming […]

Mid-Autumn Festival 2021

This is the first time that we actually went out for the Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar Festival) in a long time. I think we went the first couple of years we were here. Then everything happened, and I sort of stopped. I couldn’t pretend we were a happy family and do […]

Back to School for the 2021-2022

We are back at school. We’re not online. Thank goodness. It was a bit of a crazy start. Everything seems to be compressed into so little time. We’ve essentially lost about a year and a half of school to online learning. While some kids fared pretty well with it, others […]

Pupper gets a Haircut!!

The fluff’s hair was getting out of hand. She was so shaggy and her ears were getting matted. I decided to go out and get shears from a pet shop at the next train stop. I figured if I had the shears, I would be able to handle Fluff’s hair […]

Disney with Adults

K asked the secondary department if anyone was interested in going to Disney. She said we could bring kids, but of the 4 of us who wanted to go, I was the only one with “younger” kids. J’s son is a year older than Bub. Really, what I wanted was […]