This morning, things were better with L.  She still likes to be held constantly, but she let me sit down with her a little.  She also let Mr. A hold her, which is a huge relief. 
This morning, they told us we had to go fill out “paperwork”.  I thought it was more preliminary stuff, and […]

So, what they don’t tell you is that the entire day is in slow motion until you get in that room.  Then, it screams into super fast-forward.
First the pictures, because that is all you really want anyway.
 
 It was a hard day for L. (that is her initial, btw, L).  I can’t describe what happened in […]

We went to walmart. We spent so much money a group of people congregated around us and gasped when they saw how much we spent. It was horribly embarrassing. We didn’t buy such a huge number of big things, but many small cheap things which added up including: 2 big packs of […]

Everyone keeps asking how M is doing.  Thank goodness she is a flexible and easygoing traveler.  She has averaged about one bout of very restrained crying per day–usually when we forget to feed her on time, make her too hot, or make her walk on some too-long deathmarch.   She is a trooper.
M loves the food, especially […]

So in the last post, I didn’t go into details, but Yangshuo nearly made me have a total breakdown.  Mr A’s favorite memories of China were of visiting Yangshuo, so he was very excited to go.  I was also stoked because the pictures of this area are so amazing.
What we didn’t count on is the […]