Category: The Activist
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Isn’t she just adorable? (Those new teeth are popping out.) I can’t believe she turns 6 years old today. I told her I wasn’t going to let her turn 6 because then she would decide it was fun to turn 7 next year, 8 the year after that, and then before you know it she’s…
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A week or so ago Christa convinced Sarah to allow her trim her hair a little. After we praised the new dew Anna also wanted a summer cut. (Yesterday Sarah "modified" her own bangs much to Christa’s dismay/shock/disgust. I guess she was going for more of a layered look. Sorry I don’t have a picture…
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Anna recently dictated a "familiar" story to me. I wrote down her rendition and then she drew the accompanying illustration: Do you know Satan? Satan is a very bad snake. He could have done the right thing, but he didn’t. And he did something very bad. God said you’re gonna crawl on your belly forever. …
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"It tickles." These were the words Anna uttered yesterday before she realized that she was actually missing a front tooth. She had been wheeling Sarah around in a baby doll stroller. After a particularly fast ride some type of "collision" had occurred between the two girls. Anna came out of the ordeal missing one of…
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More often than not I think we often learn more from our children than we actually teach them. Oh sure, during their formative years we teach them to eat (the green vegetables at least); we potty train them (some quicker than others…ugh); and we help them navigate through the oft-treacherous and confusing fjords* of life;…
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Today we came home from our language class to discover that Anna lost her very first tooth! Very momentous around here… We knew it was bound to happen. That little white piece of calcium has been hanging in the wind for days (weeks?) now it seems. I was explaining the lumberjack term, timber!, to Anna…
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Anna recently asked if she could take some pictures with our digital camera. We let her "give it a shot" (OK, that was a pretty bad play-on-words I admit.) To our surprise she created some aesthetically pleasing images. She was trying to capture the "essence" of camp to show grandma. Note: You’ll quickly notice that…
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Christa and Anna are in Chengdu this week at a Home-Schooling conference. They come back tomorrow morning (Thanksgiving Day). Tomorrow evening we will be enjoying a delicious turkey dinner and games with a some fellow American expats. It was a great time last year so the bar is set pretty high. Meanwhile, Sarah and I…
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Scene 1: Our company had a meeting yesterday in which we talked about what it means to go through a transition. Specifically we talked about the various emotional stages (or patterns) that can be observed when people are experiencing transition. We had a nice hand-out diagram and a nice "exercise" to explore these various stages.…
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Raising four kids is difficult at times… Oh, you mean, we didn’t tell you? Surely you already knew about the other (less-mentioned) members of our family. Let’s see there’s Anna, Sarah,… Cokie… In addition to making a U.S. cross-country road trip with us, Cokie has also been Anna’s constant companion in Singapore, Thailand, China, and…
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