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Since we are in the tropics and since we are away from family and friends at Christmas this year, we had to “force” Christmas a little bit. Christmas is not really celebrated here in Malaysia except in the commercial sense in the larger cities. The malls here have caught on to the fact that Christmas equals lots of $$$ and …
Living in Malaysia in 2011 is a pretty neat experience because you get to watch a country heave its way towards modernity at breakneck speeds. Malaysia is certainly not a third world country; it would be classified as a developing country. It has made a lot of progress in a short period of time and it is interesting to …
After a great visit with my aunts, we met up with my brother and his fiancee who are traveling in SE Asia for 3 months, in Penang for a weekend. It was fun for us to show them around our second home, Penang and the kids of course enjoyed all the extra attention. Steve & Audrey are backpacking and the …
After arriving back in Malaysia, we had to deal with the jet leg again including lots of night wakings. We played musical beds a lot with many different configurations in one night (Gavin and I in one bed, Gavin in the crib, Gavin in Ella’s bed….) but after a week or so, the kids were thankfully back to regular sleep …
We have been back from our visit to Canada for 2 weeks now and are shamefully just getting around to writing a blog about it. I had a fantastic 5 weeks at home with the kids and Paul joined us for the last 2 weeks of the visit. What we learned is that home leave (expat vocabulary) is really not …
Life with Miles Miles is doing really well and we are all enjoying the newest member of our family. It has been great having my Mom here and I’m not sure what we would do without her. Miles turned 1 month the other day and is up 3 lbs from his birth weight and thriving. He is a pretty good …
