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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 …
When I heard my parents were coming for a visit I’m not sure what I was more excited about: seeing them or the chance to travel. We had hoped to get away for a week in April, but Paul’s work was very busy and he couldn’t get away. My parents coming meant I had travel companions! It didn’t take me …
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind with our first visitors (my parents) and lots of traveling. We are approaching 3 months in Malaysia and I can feel the honeymoon stage coming to an end. When researching living overseas, we had read about the end of the honeymoon stage, when the homesickness sinks in and the novelty of living …
Thanks to everyone for your well wishes. We plan on updating the blog once a week, so we hope you enjoy the pics and stories. We arrived into London, with typical British weather, rain, rain, rain. We picked up our rental car and headed to Birmingham to visit Paul’s Aunt and family. The highlight was meeting Mason, Paul’s cousin’s baby. We …
