Showing posts with label busyness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label busyness. Show all posts

Friday, August 10

Summer Lovin'

utsumi aichi: we went to the fricking beach, ya'll

We have been having a blast this summer. Now that everyone is healthy we are making the most of getting outdoors. We only do excursions twice a week since Jason and I are both working on projects that require us to be home. Also, these excursions are a little exhausting and require a bit of recovery time. Like yesterday's trip to the beach. Without a car, getting four littles and their reluctant father to the beach was not an easy feat. We left early and came home late with countless station transfers in between. The sunburnt shoulders are proof that we not only made it to Utsumi Beach, but that we played in the Pacific Ocean for as long as possible.
utsumi aichi: we went to the fricking beach, ya'll

One of the reasons we are enjoying summer more this year is due to the recent acquisition of the long sought after Family Bicycle. It makes getting around so much easier that for a few days it was hard to keep us indoors (and working on those projects I mentioned earlier).
at shonai koen

We have a few more excursions before Nico has to return to kindergarten (for marching band practice of all things). Science museum, zoo, Pokemon movie, and the city fruit park. Sebastian is really excited about the last two things. The lull between the excursions are deemed boring but I think he also likes the lazy days too of reading comic books and building monsters in clay.

Summer is now ranking as the number one season on our charts. How's it going on yours?

Wednesday, June 13

Oh, baby baby.

luca 7 weeks
Little Luca is now in the process of becoming Little Luca the American. We are a little tardy on all of the official paperwork. Next week I have to go all the way to Immigration to apologize and tell them that I don't have a passport yet. In Japan, unless you are Japanese you are always a foreigner so Immigration demands that babies have a visa in their passport by 6 weeks old.
Mathematically, we were doomed. A week spent in the hospital after the birth, then Golden Week, then my injury, then chicken pox, and chicken pox, AND chicken pox... nope, it just didn't add up to equal bureaucratic success.
Hopefully the presence of this lovely boy will melt the hearts of the worn-out paper pushers. I don't want a repeat of last year's deportation scare.


Hope you are all well. Take care.
xoxo

Saturday, November 5

We're still here...

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We are just swamped with daily life plus side projects that we are attempting to inflate to the center. That may be cryptic but don't worry, all will be revealed soon. Good things, I think, very good things. Sweet lemonade from lemons.

We are fine though. In case you were wondering. Besides for a few skint knees and the cabin-fevered fighting that happens when it rains, no complaints.

Autumn is slowly creeping into Nagoya and I am actually looking forward to winter this year. It is the sounds that change, the quiet even in a city, how drips echo through the silent streets. This will be our sixth winter in Japan so for us Floridians, our sixth real winter. Appreciation for the season has grown in pace with my understanding of how to live well in the season. Luckily we are in Japan, the land of every available creature comfort known to humans.

Okay, off to work on my somewhat mysterious side projects. Over and out.

xoxo