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Holiday update 2011

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Time again for my annual update! We have seen some old firends from Xiamen this year, as Michael spent a month at XiaDa this spring with students from Canisius College, and we also welcomed Tian to Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Thomas is now 15, Helen, 10 and Sophia 6. We are contemplating going after another China year after Thomas leaves for collge -- stay tuned!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas 2010 greeting!

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Post script -- Life in "Meiguo"


I happened to notice that we are still getting a lot of hits every day to the site....I am having trouble weaning myself from blogging , too....
I wanted to introduce our newest member of the family -- Merton the 7 week old Beagle..!!!


In an effort to really do this American culture thing right, we have gotten ourselves a dog -- well, Helen thinks its her dog! He is sooooo cute that it makes up for the housebreaking efforts which are akin to potty training a baby!



While he sleeps -- we have been reorganizing the house, getting bunk beds, having a yard sale, trying to walk to the supermarket instead of drive, searching for "real Chinese food", and looking forward to lots of visitors coming up....

In short, we are doing well -- the big kids are in day summer camp -- Thomas as a counselor-in-training and Helen as a camper. Sophia and I are reorganizing our lives and watching the puppy, Michael is finding his office again and all of us are enjoying speaking English and telling stories about China. Buffalo is beautiful in the summer time and helping me to put off thinking about the onset of winter.

Its the final week before the Olympics -- looking forward to hearing lots more from China in the weeks ahead.