By the Way

In some years past, spring has crept up on me unawares. I looked out the window surprised to find the ground covered in fresh green gras...

We have now lived in the same apartment for over three years – a record! It has also been 5.5 years since we moved to Yinchuan! In honor...

I am sitting in a tiny chair, listening to Juliana's kindergarten teacher rattle off a bunch of instructions to parents, thinking, “I...

The first pill was surprisingly hard to take. It wasn't the first time I had been on an anti-depressant, and I was not opposed to s...

I usually say, “I can't believe this child is getting so old! Where did the time go?” For the first few months of Nadia's life ...

2016 almost perfectly encompassed a year of babyhood. I started the year pregnant and exhausted, just two weeks out from giving birth. ...

This is the season of darkness. We eat breakfast and dinner with a backdrop of blackness. Every day is just a little shorter, as th...

One delivery company has packages piled up on the ground just before classes let out.  A few minutes later the whole area was filled with ...

A week ago I wrote about the benefits of parenting in China . I'll be honest – this list was easier to think of. I suppose that...

 “We should never even try to leave the house,” I think. Adalyn is at the marvelous age (3) when she suddenly thinks she can do whateve...