Thanks to the U.S. Postal service for damaging and taking f.o.r.e.v.e.r to deliver Valentine's cards and treats from my parents, the hol...

On Sunday I blogged about Maisie having her first taste of cotton candy . But that was cotton candy and other than fairs, the circus and oth...

Yesterday I looked past my loathing of all things malls and ventured into the Disney store because I'd heard that they had some cute ben...

Today Maisie had her first taste of cotton candy at The Greatest Show on Earth, Ringling Bros And Barnum & Bailey Circus . She wasn'...

Happy Valentine's Day 2009! By bedtime Wednesday evening, Maisie thankfully had recovered from her Valentine's party sugar high and...

Today at school was Maisie's Valentine's Day party. The children each passed out their cards with attached candy and just before dis...

* Saturday a headache started and I thought it was just a bad sinus headache brought on by our temperatures going from 17F to 70F over the c...

Wednesday morning we celebrated Chani's Birthday at one of the local large inflatable jumping places. Happy Birthday Chani!! Maisie has ...

Ever since I was a little girl, I've always had the same favorite cookie. Rainbow cookie, three-layer cookie, tri-color cookie, Neapolit...

Last night we met up with friends Ilene and Michael and their daughter April at a favorite local Chinese restaurant. Even though we had tri...

Maisie sometimes has a style all her own. Today she was dancing around the house in a pink sweatshirt sporting remnants of breakfast & ...

As a general rule, I am not one to pack a lot of activities into our weekends but this past weekend was just one activity after another. Sin...

Dec. 11, 2006 ~ A family of three, ChongQing Civil Affairs Office, China Dec. 6, 2007 Maisie modeling her gotcha day outfit. The shoes we...

Maisie called me over this afternoon to tell me that her bum was in a bowl...silly and limber little girl! She spent quite some time just si...

Oh yeah, we went real gourmet this morning, ha!! Maisie had fun making and eating her fairy bread. A little taste test. This really can'...

This afternoon Maisie spent some time over at our neighbor Mary's home helping to bake peanut butter cookies. Maisie had a fun time and...

I'm a bit behind in my posting but last Friday Maisie absolutely loved her first day of ballet class! Unfortunately for me though, there...

These are two pictures that I had on my cell phone from December 2008 and I wanted to remember them so I finally uploaded them to the blog. ...

Watch me Mama. See my right leg. I'm lifting it just like a ballerina. See how pretty. Look how high I can lift my let. Now it's eve...