A Non-Celebratory Celebration Which Included Not Much Celebrating

In Our Same Boat (with State)

Beyond the Cornfields
Brand-new State Department family in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Love their two little girls (she just recently had a baby while being posted in Dhaka), horticulture, traveling and adventure!
Email From The Embassy
State Department family formerly in Beijing, China, and recently posted to Amman, Jordan. A trailing spouse, she's also a writer, and frequently publishes articles with major news sources. A very experienced State family, this new post is something like overseas post number six or seven for them.
Just US
A beautiful family of seven - they have arrived at their new post: Jerusalem! They just finished off an unaccompanied tour to Iraq and are very much looking forward to sightseeing around the middle east.
Our Life
State Department family on their second post...Tijuana, Mexico. It's their first overseas assignment and they have two little boys. They love Tijuana so far and post pictures frequently! They also get to enjoy the best of both worlds for they can sneak over the border into San Diego when they want to!
The Dinoia Family
State Department family formerly in California, now in DC for a DC tour. Next, the husband will do a one year unaccompanied tour. A very experienced State family (formerly in Iceland and Caracas) with a blog that has been around quite a while and has great archives. Jen has a sweet heart and a lot to give!
The Perlman Update
State Department family formerly in Chennai, India, who then did a year-long unaccompanied tour in Iraq. They are now on a DC tour and after that will do another unaccompanied tour (Afghanistan). She totally tells it like it is and doesn't sugar-coat what life is really like. Witty, snarky, funny and down-to-earth. Look elsewhere if you want fake. Read if you want REAL.
Where in the World Am I?
State Department family formerly in Bujumbura, Burundi and now in Hyderabad, India. They just had their first baby this summer - a beautiful little girl- (there's a separate blog about this) and she also eats gluten-free (with a separate blog, also).

Can't Live Without (non-State)

Crass-Pollination: An ER blog
The best ER nurse blog EVER!
Doctor Grumpy in the House
The best doctor blog EVER!
In Which...
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of seven. Her darling daughters are, goshdarnit, probably too young to be hoped for as my future daughters-in-law.
The Crib Chick
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of five. Hopefully two (Any two! I'm not picky!) of which are my future daughters-in-law.
the underwear drawer
An anesthesiologist who is possibly the most talented & entertaining writer ever. I've read her blog ever since she started medical school. No, don't know her in real life. Wish I did.
The Bloggess
This blog is both hysterically funny and hilariously irreverent. I actually let my 17 year old son read it (who loves it as much as I do!), but wouldn't even CONSIDER letting my 12 year old son read it. Which is about all the description it needs!

06/19/2011

A Non-Celebratory Celebration Which Included Not Much Celebrating

[This next week's Foreign Service Blog RoundUp will be hosted by Heather at The Wandering Drays! Theme: Vacations and home leave.]

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Happy Father's Day to my Dad, of course, who is also wonderful grandfather whom my children absolutely adore, and the only grandfather they have ever had and will ever have. But that's okay, because you're awesome-grandfather enough that my children lack for nothing in the grandfather-ey department!

I would imagine this next video shows what happened today if you ever tried to relax, Dad. What happens each and every time you EVER try to relax. Because even though my boys weren't there in Florida to pester you, our (highly annoying) former wouldn't-make-a-very-good-Foreign-Service kitty cat, of course, was. We gave her to you guys just so you wouldn't ever forget us. Did it work? And does this look at all familiar?

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And, of course, Happy Father's Day to the love of my life.

Though we both want to, basically, DIE because we have our Chinese tests in about a week, and though we couldn't do anything fun today because, um, refer back to the top of this sentence, I love you, my wonderful husband, more than anything in this entire world. Because you are the most amazing man a girl could ever hope to have, and the most wonderful Dad kids could ever wish for.

And this is the part of the blog in which I shamelessly steal the following song from awesome I'll Take Mine... To Go! (who first introduced it to me) and dedicate it to you, my dearest love. Every time I listen to it, I cry, because it is just that perfect of a song. Especially the part about teaching the kids to fly. Oh, heavens, there aren't enough Kleenex in this world...

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Wanna pack your bags, Something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes (x2)

You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes

We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it's you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby

Posted on 06/19/2011 at 08:24 PM in James, Learning Mandarin Chinese, The Grandparents, Training for Chengdu, China (2nd Post) | Permalink

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Apparently, your head isn't 100% locked into Chinese because you can still pinpoint how obnoxious this cat really is on a moment to moment basis. The only thing left out is that, when she takes over your chair, which immediately forces you to scrounge around for the lint remover, she then throws up black fur and chicken into it.

Posted by: Mom | 06/20/2011 at 09:36 AM