I spend a good chunk of the weekend helping my pregnant sister and her family move. Due to a snafu with her new, temporary apartment complex, the gas in her place didn’t get turned on. Because it has been really cold at night, my niece and sister have been hanging out and sleeping at our [...]
Last weekend, we got together with Mr. A’s side of the family* to celebrate our niece’s 3rd birthday and our nephew’s 1st birthday. BIL’s family is from Korea, so they decided to do a traditional Korean one year birthday thingamabob for Nephew. He got to choose between yarn (long life), rice (full belly), paper and [...]
I haven’t talked much about my MIL lately, because we don’t see her that often. Maybe only every 2-3 months. Now that we have two kids the drive to see her is prohibitively long to drive up and back in one day (sleepover at her house is not an option). Also, because all four of [...]
We spent thanksgiving at my aunt’s house. She lives in the small town where my mom and dad grew up and where I lived until I entered 5th grade (I will just call this town XYZ town for now). It is a little farm town, you know, the kind of place you imagine when Sarah [...]
There are many things I am thankful for in my life. Today, as I have been reading other people’s travel and extended-family-visit craziness, I am thinking mostly of one thing:
Now that we live near our family, we only have to deal with a 1 hour drive and 4 hours of family time. It is the [...]
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