Merry Christmas!
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Burning off some steam
There is a pretty good park just below our building....the weather this winter has been fantastic, so we've been going more often lately. I loved this day- good, solid quality time with the kiddos.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Gingerbread houses
Catherine got a special treat this year- she got to decorate a HUGE gingerbread house at the Rennaissance Hotel. It was very well organized, and they provided tons of fun candy to all the kids. We brought our house home with us and picked at it for a few days afterwards.
Ryan is already eyeing up the loot:
Very intricate details were involved:
As usual, Ryan got dragged to another activity for big sis, but he sure did look studly!
The final masterpiece:
So proud of my girl!
Ryan is already eyeing up the loot:
Very intricate details were involved:
As usual, Ryan got dragged to another activity for big sis, but he sure did look studly!
The final masterpiece:
So proud of my girl!
Monday, December 6, 2010
It's in our blood
Ryan's new favorite thing to do is read...just like me and Catherine! :)
He patiently sits now, without forcibly turning the pages, or throwing the book across the room....
The 3 of us often sit and read books together, and I sometimes catch Catherine reading books to him....melts my heart every time!
He patiently sits now, without forcibly turning the pages, or throwing the book across the room....
The 3 of us often sit and read books together, and I sometimes catch Catherine reading books to him....melts my heart every time!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Prayer of the Expat Wife
For some reason, a bunch of these articles/letters/emails have been appearing in my email inbox or Facebook. Maybe the Expat Wives community bonds together moreso during the Christmas season, when a lot of us are not home for the holidays....In any case, I found this one particularly funny.
Heavenly Father,
Look down on us your humble obedient expat wives, who are doomed to travel this earth following our loved ones through their working lives to lands unknown.
We beseech you, oh Lord, to see that our plane is not hijacked or doesn’t crash, our luggage is not lost or pillaged, and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed.
Give us this day, divine guidance in our selection of houses, maids and drivers. We pray that the telephone works, the roof does not leak, the power cuts are few and the rats and cockroaches even fewer.
Lord, please lead us to good, inexpensive restaurants where wine is included in the meal and the food does not cause dysentery.
Have mercy upon us Lord, if it be the latter, and make us fleet of foot to make it to the loo in time, and strong of knee in case we have to squat. Also give us the wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand.
Make the natives love us Lord, for who we are and not what we can contribute to their worldly goods.
Grant us the strength to smile at our maids, even though our most treasured dress resembles a rag, or they take bleach to clean our well admired silk rug. Give us divine patience when we explain for the hundredth time the way we want things done. And Lord, if we ever lose our patience and thump them, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
Dear God, protect us from so-called “bargains” we don’t need and can’t afford. Lead us not into temptation for we know not what we do.
Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to us and save them from making fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, please do NOT forgive their trespasses for they know exactly what they do.
And when our expat years are over Lord, grant us the favor of finding someone who will look at our photographs and listen to our stories, so our lives as expat wives will not have been in vain.
Amen.
Heavenly Father,
Look down on us your humble obedient expat wives, who are doomed to travel this earth following our loved ones through their working lives to lands unknown.
We beseech you, oh Lord, to see that our plane is not hijacked or doesn’t crash, our luggage is not lost or pillaged, and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed.
Give us this day, divine guidance in our selection of houses, maids and drivers. We pray that the telephone works, the roof does not leak, the power cuts are few and the rats and cockroaches even fewer.
Lord, please lead us to good, inexpensive restaurants where wine is included in the meal and the food does not cause dysentery.
Have mercy upon us Lord, if it be the latter, and make us fleet of foot to make it to the loo in time, and strong of knee in case we have to squat. Also give us the wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand.
Make the natives love us Lord, for who we are and not what we can contribute to their worldly goods.
Grant us the strength to smile at our maids, even though our most treasured dress resembles a rag, or they take bleach to clean our well admired silk rug. Give us divine patience when we explain for the hundredth time the way we want things done. And Lord, if we ever lose our patience and thump them, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
Dear God, protect us from so-called “bargains” we don’t need and can’t afford. Lead us not into temptation for we know not what we do.
Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to us and save them from making fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, please do NOT forgive their trespasses for they know exactly what they do.
And when our expat years are over Lord, grant us the favor of finding someone who will look at our photographs and listen to our stories, so our lives as expat wives will not have been in vain.
Amen.
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