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C. and I were goofing around with the camera yesterday. My camera has a screen so you can flip it around and see the picture you are taking of yourself, he thinks it is great fun. ... read more

is my little baby FIVE already! Can you all believe it??? We had a great party for him yesterday at The Little Gym. The kids really enjoyed it (well, except for the one who puked at the end) and I really enjoyed the ease of having the party NOT at my house. Here are lots of pictures. Enjoy!... read more

Why you ask? Well its because my friend's Dad is visiting and he stopped for a day in LA before he got here. So, why does this have me excited? Because I got 3 big boxes of Hot Tamales!!!!!! Woo hoo!!!!! Yummy! Here's a random and not comprehensive list of things that I can't get here that I long for occasionally (and that explain my very expensive trips to Target when I do visit home): - Hot Tamales - Good and Plenty - Starbursts - Sour Skittles (say the kids) - Good Salsa - Taco Bell - Baked BBQ Lays - Doritos that taste like doritos (we get the Aussie version here, SO not the same) - Deli Smoked Turkey - Wine that is affordable (100% duty here) - Decent deoderant - Almay cosmetics - Prescriptives ... read more

Hi Everyone, the boys and I went down to Krabi in the middle of October. I've been meaning to post some pictures but have been a little busy with other stuff. We spent a few days doing the beach thing and we also spent a day going elephant trekking which was fun. Enjoy!... read more

Well, the kiddos went back to school today. J. is in year 5 (that's 4th grade to you Americans) and C. is in Kindergarten2 (preschool in USA speak). They were rather bummed out that their summer holidays had come to an end. J. has had a wonderful unstructured summer playing with the other boys in the compound....we have a whole tribe of 8-12 year old boys in this place. They've been riding bikes, playing lots of video games, and playing lots of tag and hide and seek...all day, every day. They were also pretty good about letting C. tag along after them. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, or at least be put off until the weekend. Enjoy the pics!... read more

We spent the weekend of May 5-7 in Tokyo. Jim had business travel in Japan that week so on Friday the boys and I hopped on a plane and met him there. It was SO cold compared to Thailand....probably in the 50's and we have definitely acclimated to the tropical heat. It also rained most of the weekend. Brrrr. We saw some of the major sites: Sony Center (which did NOT have any video games to play with BTW), Pokemon Museum (much to the boys' delight), Ginza (the high end shopping district), the HUGE electronics stores, the Asakusa shrines (a must see and definitely my favorite part of the trip), and we spent lots of time on the subway getting from here to there. Here are some pics: ... read more