Decision to Blog

I went back to work a few weeks ago and I thought that would be the end of the blog, the blog is a great way to let people know what we're up to, but it's also a great alternative to hand-writing a journal.  I had these visions of creating some sort of beautiful scrapbook of each of our trips to China, I had visions of spending the next several years keeping a memory-filled, mushy journal that I could present to Jun on his 18th birthday, and even had visions of keeping a second memory-filled mushy journal which I would present to Lena on her 18th birthday... I was actually thinking I'd also print a fabulous photo-book EACH year for EACH child...  but 3 weeks into my return to work and reality has made it painfully obvious that none of those things will actually happen.  But, I also realize I really do want some way to document our not-so-special events in daily life because they are what create special memories.

I want to remember making tea eggs with Jun and Lena for Chinese New Year a couple weeks ago.

I want to remember how proud they were of the fact that they cracked the eggs and made the broth the eggs cooked in for the next couple hours.  I want to remember that Lena at 3 eggs in one sitting!

I want to remember that Jun matched her egg for egg while holding onto the stuffed penguin.  

  I want to remember creating our Chinese NY banners for the Year of the Snake,

Jun's wish to have a Phoenix

Lena's wish was for... well, we weren't sure, but she had a lot of fun making her banner.

 And I want to remember how happy both kids were when Todd pulled out a pair of snowshoes for each of them when we got our last big snowstorm.  

 Sitting at a computer is something I'll spend a few minutes doing at the end of the day.  Downloading a few cute pictures is something I can spend a few minutes doing.  So, I hope my kids don't mind, but I'll have to figure out how to make books out of the blog and that's what they'll get on their big birthdays years down the road.