Our household shipment from Beijing finally arrived in Texas and after a week of hard labor, everything is unpacked. So now what? Our garage had been full of boxes and the house is overflowing with stuff. Add in our things from storage and we don’t have room to put it all! If that wasn’t enough […]

Our house was still being renovated when the first wave hit and another one is coming! It overwhelmed us and covered everything as far as the eye could see. It was a “tsunami of stuff!” We battled the waves of cardboard and paper as we waited to move to higher ground. The contractors were still

After moving into our house, we discovered we have a new neighbor. A little gray squirrel runs across the top edge of our wooden fence to reach a pecan tree in another yard and then returns the same way with a single nut in his mouth. A squirrel eating a nut isn’t that unusual, but

It was Sophia’s Birthday, and we wanted to wish her a Happy Birthday and let her know how much we love her even though we lived in Beijing, and she was in Texas. That was her special day, and she deserved a little extra attention. It took a bit of doing with the time difference,

Resistance is futile! They are taking over the world, well at least my home. Our house needed painting, but I didn’t realize how intrusive that would be. I should have gotten a clue when they started covering everything with paper and plastic sheeting. We tried to hold on to part of the first floor to