Long time............

Hmm, what do I say here? Long time no see? That would be quite the understatement. Just three months shy of two years since the last time I posted. But even saying long time no see seems strange to me.

I think blogs are so curious. I think I never post on mine partly because it feels strange to be posting about my daily life to the world, to who knows whom, but I think mostly I think, “Who cares? No one cares about what I am doing!” Or sometimes when I am not too keen on what is going on in my life I think “Gosh, I don’t want to blab to the world that my life sucks.” Or I see blogs as this place where people go to glamorize their lives, they create a snapshot of their lives that people will admire or envy. They are crafty or love to cook, or are good at photography, or they are just so blissed out, or trying to convince themselves they are blissed out mothering. I feel like none of those apply to me. So somewhere in between apathy and embarrassment, oh and don’t forget laziness (I hate to admit it, but I am lazy), oh and also recently, business (I know, sounds contradictory to laziness right?), I have failed to blog. I have certainly started plenty of posts, or gathered pictures for posts, but as with many things in my life (such as our family newsletter, which I have written nearly every year but never sent out!) I don’t quite follow through. But since a blog doesn’t seem like an essential part of life, I figured it didn’t matter.

But…. I think I have had a change of heart. Not because I really want anyone to see what I am doing with my life, because come on, who really cares? But after going back and looking at the few old posts of my sad little blog I realized that I cared! It was so fun to see what life was like for us at that moment in time and I felt sad that I haven’t recorded all the bits in between June 2009 and March 2011. So, I know myself too well to think that I will become a diligent blogger at this point in time, but I at least want to do a better job of recording the doings of our lives so that we have the option to look back on them when we want.

Now a big question I wonder about, is do I try and go back, and post some of the old events, or do I just move on from here? We have had a lot of major life altering events since I last posted, well I guess one that everything else hinges on, we moved from the sunny, warm, lovely suburbia of South Florida to the fascinating, yet entirely challenging mega-city of Shanghai, China. Life literally could not be more different for us than it was a year ago today. This move has been very difficult on me in many ways and I plan to write about that soon, not to complain, but because it has had a great impact on my life. There are also some great things about living here too, most notably, the wonderful friends we have that come from all over the world.

So hopefully I will be looking back on this post next year at this time and be glad that it was the start of something good. In the mean time here are some wonderful Oli’isms that I want to record. Oli has an incredible facility with language; I really think he speaks at the level of a gifted three year old, even strangers that overhear him speak will comment on how well he speaks (and so cool, he is really getting the hang of Chinese too! It is so adorable to listen to him speak.). Some words he has his own way of saying, my favorites as of late are:

Sippy cup = sicky cup

Ice cream = icing keem

Whipping cream = wucking keem

Breakfast = becksast

Smoothie = sue-me (used to be suzie)

Chocolate = chock-it

Captain Hook = Haptain Cook

I know these will self correct soon enough (Batman used to be Bat-nan), so in the meantime I just smile every time he uses them because I think they are so cute.