We have a huge grassy field behind our house.  It used to be a water run-off area that was basically an overgrown forest.  The city came and knocked down all the trees and blackberry bushes, and levelled it out.  For the longest time it was just a giant dirt area.  The kids had way too [...]

Our student left this morning at 7:15am.  He basically took one last photo with us, and got into the van that was waiting to take him to the airport.  Not even really a good bye.  It was a little weird, but understandable.  He’s been distancing himself for the last two weeks.  I think, so that [...]

Yup, I’ve actually managed to sit here yawing and scrunched over and get all my pics up and onto flickr. If you really want to you can look at the Sports Day one’s HERE and Xan’s Birthday Fiesta ones HERE. Sports Day sucked as bad as I thought it would, and maybe a little more.  They [...]

Well, Today is THE DAY! We are having Xandra’s Birthday Party today, so…..ummmm….Sorry, but those pics of Sports day that I know you are on the edge of your seats waiting for – those are going to have to wait. I really should be getting ready for the party instead of sitting here, but I [...]