Category Archives: The past
Sometimes I miss it…
My husband turned 30 on Thursday and we were supposed to have a BBQ today with some friends to celebrate but due to the impending typhoon we cancelled the BBQ and met up at a yakiniku (Korean BBQ) restaurant instead. … Continue reading
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101 things update for December & what a decade…
Time for a 101 things in 1001 days update but I am teaming it with a meme doing the rounds on a lot of Japan blogs at the moment where you reminise about the last decade. First things first though- … Continue reading
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Monday memories…
I love looking through old photos and my FIL scanned in a couple of other old photos for me when he did the baby photos. Over the weekend I looked through some other old photos of when Shun & I … Continue reading
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Retro baby shots…
At the in-laws yesterday FIL kindly scanned in some photos for me and put them on CD. I don`t have that many baby photos of myself here in Japan and I only have a couple of Shun when he was … Continue reading
Choir girl…
I always loved to sing while growing up- my father would sing to us most nights and as we got older we sang with him. I played the piano and had lessons from age 3 to age 18 (don`t get … Continue reading
The apple green ambulance…
My father has many stories from when he was younger and as he gets older it sometimes seems as if I have heard the stories 100s of times before. This used to bother me but lately I have realized that … Continue reading
Macro Monday 2…
April 24 2008, Nakano in Tokyo, Olympus u830 There was a bar I used to frequent when we lived in Nakano as it was on my way home. I would stop in to say hello to the owner, have a … Continue reading
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Memories of grade one…
Does anyone remember their first day of primary/elementary school? I do, well parts of it at least…I was excited because I had heard grade 1 would have lots of books I could read by myself and possibly take home to … Continue reading
Drive in…
When I was about eight we went to the drive in theatre- at the time it was a 5 minute drive from my house. It is no longer there- instead it was replaced with factories and they expanded the bowling … Continue reading
X is for X-rays…
In an effort to improve on my writing I have decided to sign up for Encyclopedia of me which started over at Bella Dia (and which I found out about by reading Laura`s blog here…)… participating in this hasn`t actually … Continue reading
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
