on the edge of ordinary

Before we came to the Christian Academy in Japan in 2005 I'm pretty certain I'd never heard the phrase "culminating events...

So, what’s been happening in our edge of ordinary? A few things! It's hydrangea season. We get to look at this every day outside our lou...

We've now made it over the end-of-year hump and are staring down the barrel at just over 10 weeks of holidays.  Actually, we're st...

I’m feeling really quite exhausted today. Last night was the senior graduation at CAJ. Though I didn't have a graduate, this event doub...

As predicted , these last two weeks have been crazy busy and my head is feeling pretty fuzzy. As a way of untangling myself, I'm going t...

This and the next photo were taken by Ush Sawada, the CAJ photographer. It was such a privilege to have a professional to help capture t...

Life is rushing on at a pace that I'm finding difficult to keep on top of right now. (Check out the schedule  here .) So I'm taking...

The first time my parents visited us. Yesterday I went to the airport to get my parents. This is the third time they've visited Japa...

Last year's graduating class Here is something interesting you might want to check out, if you happen to be home later today. From 7...

So the last 40 hours have gone by in a bit of a blur. School finished yesterday to a bit of a bang! Old photo, these are our Australian ...

Today is a crazy day, last day of school. Elementary parties and so on until lunch time dismissal. Then I'm heading off to someone's...

OMF families at the 2006 CAJ graduation. Well, not my graduation or my kids' graduations, but CAJ seniors' graduation. Including ...

CAJ's graduation was pretty formal, but not unbearably so. I had the joy of sitting between friends, and particularly beside a New Zeala...

We confused our boys this morning. You see, today is CAJ's American-style year 12 graduation. At breakfast we managed to dredge up th...

I just realised that it is a week since our middle son graduated from Japanese kindergarten. Here are some photos to prove that it is no ord...