Adventures By Design

Bridges: one of my favourites

I love puzzles. Well, certain kinds of puzzles. Crossword puzzles are too arcane, and math puzzles that involve adding aren’t high on my list either. But my favourite kinds right now are Sudoku and Bridges. [ read more » ]     

The school year is almost over here in Suzhou. (Yes, it’s July 1st and we’re still teaching; Friday is our last day)  Things are really busy with trying to get everything finished and packed up.

At school this week my grade had a poetry and coffee morning with the parents to share some work the students have been doing on our last unit, and to have a chance for the parents to come in one last time. It was a pretty relaxed occasion and went over really well.  Most of my class’ mothers came (most mothers here don’t work so they’ve got loads of time to come in for school events) and I think I took a photo which each of their kids, once one parent did it they all thought it was a fantastic idea so we had an impromptu photo shoot. [ read more » ]     

A Wordle word cloud of my strengths.

Yesterday, I continued our redesign (or at least revision) of our blog. There are a bunch of things I want to change, although I’m not sure when I’ll have the time to do so. I wonder if this sudden need to make our blog more user family-friendly is just an online version of the fabled Nesting Instinct. [ read more » ]     

So, as you may or may not know, we’re expecting an addition to our little family later this year. Things are going great for me and the Sea Monkey so far and the pregnancy has been remarkably easy.  As of today the Sea Monkey is at 21 1/2 weeks gestation (out of 40, which makes it a little over halfway or about 4 1/2 months for people who find the conversion like ‘changing from metric to imperial’). [ read more » ]     

Inspired by Janet’s month of blogging, we thought we’d try it too. We’ve been thinking about how we will keep in touch with friends and family around the world, especially as our family grows. We see using our blog as one way of communicating, and a more frequent (and scheduled?) use of Skype as another.

So, welcome to a month of blogging.

Here are our (tentative) plans for this summer. You might have to click on the arrows to find the month you want.