Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Wow, have the days been flying by around here! We have been home for 10 days and what a whirlwind it has been. In some ways, it feels as if we never left and China was so long ago. Sometimes, I look at JQ and I see him interacting with our family and it feels as if he has been here all along, rather than just meeting our family less than a month ago.

We have been busy with school, getting back into activities, and meeting with relatives so that they can meet JQ. The first week, we only went to about half of the extracurricular activities that the kids do…there wasn’t time or energy to hit everything again. This week, we’ll get back into everything else and return to gymnastics, AWANA, and Cub Scouts.

This weekend, JQ met Russ’ parents and sister when we traveled to their house on Saturday. We have been enjoying such beautiful weather around here…it seems so strange to think that a little over a week ago, we were sweating it out in Guangzhou, where it was in the 90s and totally humid. We came home to beautiful fall—the best time of year, to me. The temps are nice during the day and cool at night and we are starting to wear long sleeves! Yay!


On Sunday, we went to a larger picnic in the park to meet with my mom’s side of the family. My mom is from Illinois. Each year, her extended family has a large reunion in a park, where families come from miles around to meet together, eat, and reminisce. There are enough families living in Nebraska now that the group is starting a Nebraska-branch annual picnic, so we went and met with several families this weekend. Did I take a single picture? No. Suffice it to say that it went well. I hope we didn’t overwhelm Jia Qing with everyone…it’s hard not to when there are so many people.


I am loving being home. We are getting ready for our first full winter here on the homestead and trying to get things wrapped up, both indoors and outdoors. We also bought Halloween costumes already, rather than waiting until the last minute, as we did last year. The boys’ theme this year is Star Wars. I’m sure we’ll get more pictures coming up of them in their costumes for Halloween, but they wanted to try them on yesterday to wear while cleaning their room. Hey, whatever works to get them to do some housekeeping, right?


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