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Continue reading →: “Bumpdate:” Week 37
I’ve decided to move to weekly “bumpdates” now that I’m getting to within a few weeks of delivery. This will help me keep up, because Lord knows, when this baby comes, we may not have time to do much blogging (or what I do have time for will be all…
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Continue reading →: “Bumpdates” Time Hop… weeks 35 and 36
Anyone who read our last set of “bumpdates” knows that we received some news from our ultrasound technician that we might be further along in this pregnancy than we thought. We had to wait until mid-week to meet with our midwife to see what she thought about the results. When…
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Continue reading →: Jimo Hot Springs
This post is a throw-back to last September, between Trent’s and my birthdays. Several of our friends at QISS (Qingdao No. 1 International School of Shandong) had mentioned some hot springs not too far north of Qingdao in Jimo. So for our birthday celebration (our birthdays are 10 days apart),…
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Continue reading →: Chinese National Day- 2014
A year ago yesterday we celebrated Chinese National Day… in China. This holiday is always celebrated on October 1st and it commemorates the formation of the modern-day Central People’s Government. It was first established in 1949, although not on that very day, that the People’s Republic of China was born.…
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Continue reading →: A visit to the Huadong-Parry Chateau and Winery
One of the cool parts of living in Qingdao was the opportunity to visit all kinds of cool things, even sometimes things that you would never expect to find in China, let alone in the “small” town of Qingdao (only by China’s standards… there are well over 8 million people…
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Continue reading →: “Bumpdates:” weeks 30-31
Week 30: Wow! We are three quarters of the way through this pregnancy, which is so exciting, but 10 weeks still seems like a long way to go until we get to meet our little man. This week Jedi is the size of a cabbage. He weighs nearly 3 lbs…
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Continue reading →: Preparing our hearts…
As we have been getting closer and closer to Jedidiah’s arrival, we have been preparing our hearts and our home to welcome him in. We’ve started attending natural childbirth classes, have his nursery mostly set-up and we’ve been reading TONS about sleep training, breast feeding… you name it. So when…
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Continue reading →: SHOWERed with love (part 3)
After spending three weeks in Minnesota visiting my family, we finally made our way back to our “home,” Texas. It took us a while to get moved in and settled, for Trent to start working and for us to feel “normal” again. Once we had had some time to settle…
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Continue reading →: SHOWERed with love (part 2)
After a wonderful baby shower in China, we made our way back to the States. We spent one short night in San Antonio, dropping off our excess luggage and saying a quick “hello” to the family, before heading to Minnesota the next morning. I was born and raised in Minnesota…
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Continue reading →: SHOWERed with love! Part 1I have been lucky enough to have 3 baby showers thrown for me and baby Jedidiah (maybe a fourth to come with my old co-workers, too). The first baby shower I had was while we were still in China. It was towards the end of our time there, but the…






