The kids school had a special guest named Ba Nong come in from the village to lead a singing camp. He writes his own music, a lot of the basis comes from working in the fields and being in nature. They were doing a promo at a local library/drink shop and asked Kylie and some […]

Colt’s class did some hands-on geography at the end of this school year. They learned how to use maps, pretty much walked all over this city, and saw lots of really cool stuff! Thankful for his teacher and his friends. Think June. Hot! They would leave after lunch from school and we would pick them […]

This is one of our favorite places to go. . . a village about 5 minutes from our house. We love to play around the mountain there and have become quite familiar with the villagers that live there. The kids have cleaned out an abandoned house and made a secret clubhouse. They have picked mulberries […]

I mentioned before that it has been raining for about. . . half a year. Rainy season brings a big flood each year, and that happened yesterday. The rain came down hard the whole day, but within the first hour the streets were filling and drains were back flowing. The river that runs through the […]

I thought this picture of Caden was so cute from the library at their school. The other pictures are from Colt’s class. They are learning geography hands on! Using their map and exploring the city!

Colt has been taking art lessons for a couple of months and really loving it. Kylie took about 8 classes during an art camp over winter break, then decided she didn’t want to continue. Their art teacher gave me info on entering an art competition. I asked if it mattered if they were foreigners, and […]

I subscribe to Not Consumed and the author sent out such a great reminder for me on this Mother’s Day. I wanted to share it in case any other moms also needed to read it too ———————————————————————————————– Hi Haley! So it’s almost Mother’s Day. Ya know, the day Hallmark declared as a day to celebrate, […]

In case you were wondering what’s for dinner. . . I spent around $3 for this meal. I bought some pumpkin and put it in our rice (brown rice today), the round tan veggie is lotus root, the green thing is a type of gourd, some cabbage, eggs, and layered tofu. And ALWAYS cook with […]

One of the 2 rain free days while the kids were out of school this past week we took some friends to the mountain. The kids usually just run around and play in the village but this time they found some great surprises! Mulberry trees and crawfish! We brought the berries home and made yummy […]

We have been averaging 3-5 sunny (no rain) days/month for about the last 6 months. Seems like an extremely long (longer than usual) rainy period and it is supposed to go through June. Thankfully, we had 2 sunny days while the kids were off school for Labor Day! We took their class on a little […]