on the edge of ordinary

Now for an unusual post (not that our camping trip wasn't unusual). I told a friend I would "show" how our family organises o...

After being stressed yesterday about the finish of school and all that means for changes in schedules etc., it's been a great day so far...

The great bedroom switch is now a couple of weeks behind us now and maybe you're wondering how it went. It was a big couple of days, sw...

Today I realised again how anti-screen our parenting style is. We actively discourage our boys from spending much time watching TV, or on co...

These two days constitute Winter Break at CAJ. Not much of a break, but I won't complain. We've been trying to figure out what to do...

I bought something today I'd never thought about buying before. Dumbbells.  As a result of the wrestling season finishing on Saturday...

Last week our 12 y.o. son first met a Japanese puzzle box . He loves manipulative puzzles and very quickly decided that he had to have one f...

We went impulse buying the other day. Furniture, actually. Unusual behaviour for missionaries. It is probably more in character was that we ...

Our boys have been keen on Lego for ever so long. I think we gave our eldest his first Lego at four years of age and it has been a favourit...

One of the interesting quirks of having a singe-sex brood of children is when you have adult friends who have children of the opposite sex. ...

 A friend/colleague who I usually have fairly regular contact with on email wrote the other day, "Wendy, you've been quiet, are you...

My house is being taken over by paper aeroplanes.  On Thursday I innocently brought home a book about the subject from the school library. ...

We were introduced to the world of Meiji Chocolate Puzzles a couple of years ago when a friend of our son's gave him the easiest version...

I feel distinctly like a mum-of-boys tonight. Dinner tonight was Pirate Ship Pizzas with various salad accessories (row boat tomatoes, lett...

We bought a cheap toy yesterday and found this wonderful English on the back: CAUTION! Beware of missing parts. (Yep, always a concern arou...

Today was Thrift Shop at the Christian Academy in Japan. Doesn't mean a thing? Didn't to us when we first came here nearly four year...