About

Dear Reader: I have been resistant to having my own blog for several reasons. One, it is a huge time drain. I can barely keep up with my mother’s blog and that of a friend’s. Two, my mother wants me to do it and her ideas are always grandiose. A blog seems like a huge commitment to me. But if my mother can have a blog for a year, so can I. This blog, however, will only last one year. And finally, it seems self-absorbed, a luxury of the ego. I really am trying to get away from it being all about me. Most of you know me. I have lived nearly 11 ½ years outside of the United States, first in Mexico and now in Brazil. I am preparing to move to China this summer. I thought I was moving to Ohio. China, as my eldest daughter correctly said, is a lot more exciting than Ohio. I had been planning to fill up my container with Brazilian things and now I am trying to figure out what to jettison so I can fill up the containers with Chinese things for my eventual return to the U.S. That, and filling out school applications. The life of an expat princess was not my original life plan. My original life plan included being a lawyer, having a husband and two children, and alternating colored and white loads of laundry. God, for reasons still not clear to me, has spared me another 4 years of toilet cleaning. Not doing your own housework for decades on end can’t be good for the soul, can it? The current life plan has me gainfully unemployed, with a husband (still!) and three children, and nary a Stainstick in sight. My mother might be tempted to tell you that I sit on my bum-bum quite an awful lot and eat bon bons. This is only partially true. I did try to write a novel (?) but then got bogged down in the mess and set it to one side for when I was bored in Ohio. Preparing church bulletins, keeping track of my children and husband, and exercising fill the rest of my time. Forgot to mention shopping, though. Stay tuned.