I will try to be intentional to show more of daily life here. I know the Father’s blessing is the main reason we have adjusted well. He really drew our hearts to this place and these people. . . and we want to study and learn their ways! Trying to live like they do makes living in such a foreign land not so bad 
Of course, there are still things I think I can do without learning. . . But for now, here are a few pictures for the record!
So, obviously this isn’t the only place where people hang out their laundry. I didn’t always hang out ALL of my clothes/towels/sheets/everything before though. I DO have a dryer – which is NOT the Chinese way. They say it wastes electricity. . . I can honestly say I try very hard not to use it. If my laundry has been hanging for almost 2 days and still won’t dry (isn’t super moist here remember), then I will throw it in the dryer for 10-20 minutes to get it completely dry. That’s the last resort though! ha!
When the sun comes out full strength, I have learned and adopted the local practice of laying out your bedding/blankets (otherwise un-washable items) to disinfect naturally in the sunlight! Some people who don’t have a yard will throw their blankets across small trees and even public playground or exercise equipment! Yes, that’s our “car” in the background. Sweet ride huh? (it’s a 3 wheeled cart/scooter thingy)
The chicken I bought to make chicken soup. . . complete with eggs, feet, and head. Things I would never had bought before! Hey, my kids like them! And it’s not BAD for them :)
Some Chinese herbs I bought to drink during a sickness. . .
Colt soaking his feet in some herbs I boiled for a recent sickness he had. . . He loves to soak his feet. I do too! We soaked twice a day for 3 days. He got better too btw! Yay for natural remedies!
The herbs I bought from the Chinese herbal medicine store. They measure each one out and dumped them into a bag. Each bag is boiled for 20 minutes, then you soak your feet for about 20 minutes. You can use each bag mix 2x.
Dumped into our gigantic soup pot haha! Eating soup from here may never be the same!
Love learning about your everyday life 😊
I have a question about the chicken in the plastic bag. I recently read about “unlaid” eggs. Are the eggs in the bag the eggs that were inside the chicken when it was butchered? I had no idea that they harvest them like that. On a cooking show they talked about the difference of the texture of laid and unlaid eggs. They said that most chefs prefer to us the unlaid eggs. Not sure I would ever get used to cooking chicken feet and heads.