on the edge of ordinary

I'm in a little bit of pain today. Yesterday afternoon, in an effort to be a good "Japanese" housewife I attempted to sweep t...

A friend at church had a baby five weeks ago. On Sunday, while sitting outside in the sunshine with her baby, she encountered our three boys...

We're into our second year of having a middle schooler at CAJ. That means that we're into our second year of out-of-school hours int...

Today, as I look down my RSS blog feed, I see, "Six months on" and "10 years on". Eerily the two anniversaries coincide....

A Japanese friend asked me the other day what the average number of children is, in Australia. It is very low in Japan and it is getting low...

This is the Pink book that I mentioned back here . Despite it's shocking colour (to my eyes), it was an interesting book. I love books t...

It is something I do all the time, often without thinking. Thinking about it, I did it before I came to Australia too, it's just stepped...