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You might notice a lot more misspeallings ans sentences that end in prepositions from now on. That's because I've lost my editor. Y...

We've touched on this before, but given that we spend quite a bit of time on airplanes, with Scott's business travel and the family ...

Greetings friends! After a hiatus of about 7 months we're back to the blog. A lot has happened since we were in Guangzhou in April and p...

That's right ... we are officially a family of four as Lillie is now legally our daughter. Anne, Scott, and Lillie have criss-crossed C...

Often in hotels, airports, museums, and maybe trendy restuarants you'll see a series of clocks with various times from major cities arou...

We cancelled our subscription to the english language paper, Shanghai Daily, when we thought we were moving back to the U.S., so it took abo...

A few months ago we announced that we were moving back to Dallas. So for the last 6 weeks Scott has been living in Texas and Annie has been...

Airplane food ... years ago it used to be served on flights in the U.S. It was salty, tasteless, and smelled up the plane worse than a Diet,...

We have a problem … a consistent, disgusting problem. We have a "serial picker" in the house. We first discovered the problem abo...

Yesterday we all headed over to the fabric market to get some tailor-made clothes. This place is heaven ... it's three floors of stall ...

Yesterday marked Lillie's first airplane voyage. Here's a few pics capturing the moment.

With Scott in the U.S. Annie is having to utilize her broken Mandarin on a much more regular basis. Given this recent influx of Chinese spee...

We haven't posted many pics lately so here's one of each girl from last week: Juliet before heading off to "Wacky Day" at...

We have been traveling quite a bit the last few years and have made several trips back and forth to the U.S. while we've lived in Shangh...

Yesterday Annie and Scott stopped in at a women's clothing store as they were having a massive outerwear sale that couldn't be misse...

Yesterday McDonald's announced that it would open an additional 500 stores in China over the next 3 years. McDonald's isn't bad...

As we have said before, Juliet's first grade teacher is a wonderful woman from Australia. She has been such a great teacher for Juliet. ...

As many of you know, a few weeks ago we found out that Scott is moving to a new position in the company, which will take us back to Dallas. ...

We have mentioned many times how great Mr. Chen (our driver) is. He always goes the extra mile to help us out whenever we need it. One of ...

One of the vivid childhood memories we have from Halloween is the black cauldron filled with dry ice to give kids the feeling there was some...

We often write about the many differences we encounter on a daily basis between China and the U.S. However, today we're going to write a...

There are times at which as a parent you are "in the zone." You and your spouse are clicking on all cylinders, the house is runnin...

We wrote before about Lillie's singing prowess or lack thereof, but she is making progress. Tonight we asked her to sing "Baa Baa ...

Tonight when Scott got home from work, his lovely bride was telling him about her fabulous day, which included volunteering for an hour in J...

Here's a photo montage from the Singapore leg of our vacation: Juliet ready for her day at the zoo. Even in sunny Singapore, a 6 year ol...