It's Thursday aleady?!

Wow! This week has flown by. We begin every morning with two hours each of intense survival Chinese. Then a quick lunch, maybe a nap for the girls if we are lucky, and on to our to-do list.

This week we got our Taiwanese driver's licenses. We are now legal to drive in about a half-dozen countries (US, Thailand, Taiwan and all the countries with reciprocal agreements including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia to name a few). Interesting fact: Jeff and I have driven in 4 different countries, on opposite sides of the road and on 3 separate continents.

Anyways, we are slowly acquiring the furnishings for our new apartment and the girls are ever so slowly adjusting to the time difference. I think Chloe is doing all right but Ava is just hanging on to that US time. It's been almost a month now since she has slept through the night. She is also in a new phase of development where she is extremely independent but totally unstable. She wants to walk everywhere but is a falling disaster waiting to happen. She wants to feed herself but most of the food ends in a mess on the floor. She wants to explore everything and it all goes in the mouth which can be unnerving. Please remember her (and us!) during your quiet times.

Jeff has started working in the afternoons on learning his new job and getting set-up in his new office. Please remember him as he has a very full schedule ahead of him.

And one other thing:
I am getting bored with cooking the same ol things over and over so if you have a good recipe that uses fairly basic ingredients or is completely made from scratch- I would love to have it. You can email it to me at hjweathers@yahoo.com. I can get quite a few American products here but sometimes I have to go on a hunt for special items like Molasses or Cake Mixes.