Rich MOMents

GG came to us at 3, fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. We fully intended to help him retain at least the Mandarin, but he's pretty m...

So GG, age 4, continues to enjoy smelling me . It's like he has a little vacuum cleaner nose. I don't usually wear make-up. But on a...

Grace and Hope helped to arrange foster care for GG while in China.

GG and I are home from church today. Friday night/Saturday morning he suddenly had temps up to 104.9. It's the sickest he's been sin...

We're nearing the end of winter eatin'. I'm pretty tired of it and supplies are running low. As a family that tries to eat in se...

Reposting from my other blog ... In conjunction with our farm unit we decided to do a puppet show of The Three Billy Goats Gruff . My st...

Photo: mostly spinach with a few mustard greens... We've now had our raised beds for a couple of winters. My experience? If I plant in ...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love children's literature. Love, love, love it! But I am increasingly disturbed by some of the im...

I've started a blog just for the purpose of posting photos and information from my classes. You are welcome to come visit us at love2lea...

I've been hearing some interesting stuff lately from GG, now 4, and home for about 9 months. It goes something like this... "In Chi...

To follow up on the last entry's p.s.... Now they are playing "Go Fish." GG: You ha' any fours? LilDude: Nope. Go Fish. G...

Once upon a time, there was a mom who felt badly for her son. He spent his first three years in China, learned two languages, and was sudden...

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven , a memoir by Susan Jane Gilman, tells the story of her trip to China in 1986, upon graduating from colle...

Only recently a friend asked me if LilDude likes to read for fun. I told her that he happily does his 15 minutes of required reading a day, ...