Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 11:51AM | 2 Comments Brandon was back on the basketball court this spring after 3 year hiatus! He played with the 53rd Signal Battalion (Army) on Torii Station and was happy to be back participating in one of his favorite sports. This was also my first time, after years of hearing about it, to get to watch my hubby play ball!
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 1:23AM | 1 Comment We’ve recently been in a sort of website-hibernation. We’ve been traveling to cool places, exploring new things, and discovering new tasty, beverages, but just haven’t sat down to write a post in a while. Then as the time flew by faster than we anticipated, we became overwhelmed by the number of stories and photos we wanted to share with you.
So, here’s what I’m proposing. I’m going to work at getting back into the habit of sharing all the fun things in our lives abroad, but I’m not going to begin with our trip to Hong Kong, our great holidays with Dick, or our amazing trip to Sapporo. I’m going to work on some shorter adventures and toss in the bigger stories as I get the time and energy. This means not everything I post will be in chronological order, but I think you’ll enjoy all the content we have to share, whatever order it comes. (And frankly, I’d really love to post some stories and photos I’ve taken recently and am excited about at the moment, rather than stare at 500 photos of our great trip to Hong Kong while feeling like I’m falling further behind. [And trust me when I say, I will not subject you to 500 photos of our trip to Hong Kong, no matter how great all those photos turned out. Narrowing down which ones tell the best story is part of what’s been so overwhelming for me. So I’m going to take it a little bit at a time, instead of feeling like I want to hide under the covers every time I think about our website.])
Thanks for bearing with us. Now back to your semi-regularly scheduled programming…
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 7:21PM | 1 Comment Let’s get caught up on some of the exciting end-of-2011 things my sweet Brandon accomplished!
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:59AM | 1 Comment Over the past year I’ve become virtual friends with Pam from www.gingerbreadsnowflakes.com, a wonderful lady who writes a wonderful blog all about her crafty endeavors and Christmas! Pam’s website is best enjoyed with a steaming cup of hot cocoa. She and I share both a love of Christmastime and the fact that we are crafty dabblers (we don’t specialize in a certain craft medium, but rather enjoy trying all sorts of crafty projects.)
When Pam asked if I’d write a guest post for her website about my experiences with Christmas in Okinawa, I was ecstatic! Getting to write about two of my passions – Japan and Christmas – oh yeah, count me in! My guest post has now become part of her “international Christmas” series.
Go check it out! http://gingerbreadsnowflakes.com/node/463 And while you’re there, be sure to check out some of her great craft tutorials and yummy Christmas cookie recipes (she’s currently holding her 2011 Christmas Recipe Swap and I’m anxious to try some new recipes!) Grab a cuppa and enjoy!
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 9:46AM | 1 Comment In the beginning of October, (yes, I’m playing a bit of catch-up) we saw signs for this festival right down the street from our apartment. Never ones to pass up Japanese festival food, we headed down in the evening to see what we could find.
