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Sweet Dreams
I’m continuing to deal with any anxiety I have about The Cuties being gone for a month at overnight camp through Crafting Therapy. I wonder if there’s a certification program for that? Like most families, we have a bedtime ritual … Continue reading
Posted in Craft Projects
Tagged bedtime, bunkbeds, camp, happy place, japan, letters, Lilly Pulitzer, names, personalized, pillowcases, pillows, summer, sweet dreams
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!
This summer my Cuties are going to sleep away camp for the first time. For a month. Everyone is over the top excited, but the Mama in me is rather sad at the prospect of not hearing about their day … Continue reading
Posted in Craft Projects, Organizing
Tagged addresses, air mail, boatman gellar, boxes, camp, etsy, home, japan, labels, letters, notecards, packing, pens, polka dot design, sarasa, stamps, stationery, stickers, summer, washi tape, writing
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles and More!
This Spring Break will go down in history as the trip of many modes of transportation! First, we hopped a PLANE from Tokyo to Bangkok, where we landed and realized it was actually not the start of Spring, but rather, smack … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Travel
Tagged bangkok, bus, chaophraya river, chiang mai, first class, flight of the gibbon, grand palace, hot, lemongrass tea, longboat, monsoon season, natural gas, overnight train, planes, rainforest, skytrain, squat toilet, summer, sweaty, taxis, Thailand, tuk tuk, water ferry, western toilet, zipline
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My Week in Numbers
Here’s what I’ve been up to this week, by the numbers: 1000 piece puzzle completed. I am a seriously obsessive puzzle-doer, folks. I stayed up past 1:00 am more than once this week attempting to put a dent in this … Continue reading
Our Little Drugstore
So for those of you who read this blog who aren’t Expats, here’s a little confession. We’re sort of drugstore hoarders. Most of us have some sort of “secret closet” where we stash away toiletries and medications from America that … Continue reading
Posted in Organizing
Tagged closet, dollar store, drugstore, edamame, Expats, hoarders, hot, humid, hyaku yen, japan, key tags, labels, lunch, medications, onigiri, organizing, ribbon, scented, shopping, summer, toiletries
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And They’re Off!
I officially have a Fifth Grader and a Third Grader today! We met their teachers on Friday, saw their classrooms and found out their class lists. We are ready to go. Which in Tokyo, when you ride the bus an … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrations
Tagged backpack, bento, bus, fifth grade, first day of school, frame, japan, Lilly Pulitzer, lunch box, organic bloom, organizing, school, school supplies, snacks, summer, third grade, water bottles
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To Market, To Market
In the short period of time between our return to Tokyo and the start of school we decided to head to the World-Famous Tsukiji Fish Market {also, by the way, a terrific activity for a family with jet lag, still … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures
Tagged adventures, auction, blowfish, cooking, fugu, homer simpson, japan, octopus, onigiri, pufferfish, seafood, shopping, shrimp, summer, tentacles, trolley, tsukiji fish market, tuna
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Light & Healthy Lunch
The Cuties and I are back in hot and sticky Tokyo and recovering from our jet lag. We are waking up at all sorts of crazy hours and eating at random times as well. As a result, our food situation … Continue reading
Wonder Twin Powers Activate!
My Happy Place is even happier this week because Cute BFF and her family are here visiting us in Kiawah. While it’s been almost two decades since we’ve lived in the same place, multiple continents and many states, we can still spend … Continue reading
Posted in Ordinary Days I Love
Tagged bff, iPhone, Kiawah, monograms, otterbox, pink and green, rings, summer, super friends, super heroes, wonder twins
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