My Baby Chinese Dragon.

It's Friday in China!!! Crazy thing happened on the way to pick up Elie tonight at swimming, we found a Pizza take-out joint right in the middle of Beijing on University Ave.  We had to pull in. It was so brightly lit and you could smell the aromas from the street. Ahhh...Little Caesars....

Tonight was a planning night for our upcoming country. Plus a night to discuss plans for our Chinese New Year celebration tomorrow night. The kids chilled and started going through their school bins that were pulled out as we organize the basement now that we have new carpeting down there. Katy found her Chinese dragon mask she made in pre-school! What great timing for our relaxing evening as we unwind our travels in China.

We're starting to get the hang of all this travel and organizing a bit more so our plans are more efficient with our crazy schedules (at least that's my dream). We begin week 5 on Sunday and it's still very exciting. I won't act like this is easy. At times a little anxiety kicks in, mostly because I'm not on it and organized enough to have everything planned out.  I told Andy we need to start looking through cookbooks when we're not doing anything and begin marking meals from different countries and begin building our database so meal-planning will be easier. After his smart remark of "what, you want me to get index cards and write down Cooking Light, 2003, Page 87..."and I replied, "well, actually we need to get a Journal"... he gave me the look... Ok, a slight obsession may be happening with my journey. I'll pause...

But really, meal planning has really stepped up a challenging notch this year ... competing only with myself. Happy Is.