Tuesday, December 29, 2009

We're back from China and it smells good to be home.

I made my husband bring us back to America. I just couldn't stand to live in a country that doesn't have eggnog. I guess I could have just made it myself, but then I'd have to find out the ingredients, and nobody should ever have to find out the ingredients to eggnog.

So we're back, for good. Just in time for boxing day Canada!

To make a long story short, we went to China to help out with my MIL's business; she ended up selling it and now we're back, starting over in a different country for the fourth time in our lives. There's so much I want to post in this blog about my time in China that I wasn't able to while I was there. Especially since this blog is the only record I keep of my life. This is like my scrapbook/journal and each year I'll print it out and stick it in a shoebox. But that means I'll have to buy some new shoes and new shoes are for rich people, which is why I've got like thousands of them, but then I wake up and look in my closet and all I see is a toilet because, oh yeah, I don't even have a closet.

I'm grateful for my time spent in China, I learned a lot. Like how to pretend like you're taking a picture of your kids, when really you're trying to capture an image of the eight-year-old, number twoing in the park, while her father stands proudly at her side.


More to come, later. We don't have our own internet power yet. Luckily we're living in an apartment complex surrounded by neighbors who don't put passwords on their wireless networks.
Thank you neighbors, and sorry I never make eye contact with you when I see you, or respond when you say hello, and run away when you try to introduce yourself... I'm just really shy.

31 comments. For every comment received:

Greg and Mel said...

Mary!! I have been thinking about you a lot and checking your blog like crazy! i'm glad you are back!! Can't wait to hear all about your china experience, but WHAT THE HECK is up with the pooing 8 year old?? GROSS!!! ha ha ha
-mel

Sabrina said...

WHAT!!!! I was just looking at your blog the other day wondering how you were! I knew better to remove it from my feed... I'm glad i didn't!!! YAY!!!
Merry Christmas, Happy Boxing Day!!! Happy New Year! Mary is back!!! (should be a new holiday!)

Megan said...

Welcome back! All I can say is what did that girl have for lunch? Yikes!

Amander said...

Why hello there. Hope to see you blogging regularly again.

And that picture was awesome and disgusting.

Steph @ Diapers and Divinity said...

Hooray! My new year looks so much happier now (if I don't think too much about that picture). Welcome back to the land of milk and honey (and drive-thru windows).

katieo said...

you're baaaaaaack!!!

I've missed you.

I let my boys poop in the park all the time.

Alyson (New England Living) said...

I've wondered about you and if we'd ever see you in the blogosphere again! Glad to see you back!

Ok, what is up with those pics? Is this typical? Is this accepted? Totally bizarre!

Barbaloot said...

So fun to see you back! Hooray for coming to American where parents ignore their kids if they number two in public.

Jillybean said...

Hooray! You're back!!!

(I was trying to think of something more clever to say, but I am so filled with happiness at your rerun that I can't think straight)

AzĂșcar said...

I'm SO EXCITED you're BACK!

Machen family said...

I was worried that the commies were brainwashing you. So glad to see you are back to the USA

Pam C. said...

Hallelujah!! Welcome back to the land of public toilets and graffiti! You've been missed.

Jackie said...

Hi Mary dear! You have been missed. Thanks (I think) for the picture.

Em said...

sooooooooooooooooooooo glad you're back, hahaha, oh how i missed your humor! keep it fresh girl, keep keepin' it fresh;-)

Me (aka Danielle) said...

WELCOME BACK! You have been missed!

The Boob Nazi said...

OH MY GOSH. That is one big pile o' poo.

myimaginaryblog said...

I would be honored to offer you some shoe boxes in celebration of your return. I really love shoe boxes, so this will be a sacrifice, but it's worth it.

minnesotamom said...

That's a pretty nasty picture. But glad to hear you're back in the land of #2ing in a toilet!

Jami said...

Mary! Oh Mary, I am so glad you are alive and well. And that your hair is growing! Welcome back to US!

Manda said...

Heck yes! I'm so glad you're back!!!!

Melanie J said...

Oh, welcome back! There is much happiness in blogland again!

Tulsi said...

YAY, you are back!! You know, whenever I'd check your blog from time to time, I always thought about the cut out holes for babies bottoms. Especially since my granddaughter is 6 months old on the 4th and I diaper her little bottom. With really good diapers. I only have her once a week so I make it easy on myself. Still shocking about that little child.

Sher said...

I'm so glad your back! I was starting to go through Mary withdrawals! Are you in Utah?

Whitney R said...

oh my gosh.... I haven't laughed so hard till I cried since "Up" (the movie - just thought I'd clarify that since you're an alien all over again) when the chubby boy smashed up against the blimp window and slid along it for so long that not only do you laugh but you cry too...

thank you. I'm so glad your back.

and, thank you also for zooming in. I cried some more.

The Kooky Queen--Rachel said...

Wow, I laughed so hard! The good ol' days in China where people were spewing their bodily fluids all over public places...wow!!!!!!! You KILL me!!!

Just SO said...

So glad to see you back in blogland!!!

I can't look at that picture too closely it makes me gag. What do they do with the stuff when she's done??? Just leave it???

kanishk said...

that picture was awesome and disgusting.

Work from home India

Kris said...

Just how much fiber are they feeding that poor child?

Every time I try to get my kids to poo in public places, they refuse. Clearly, I'm failing as a parent.

turtle said...

YES! You're back!

Keyona said...

It's about damn time! For a second I was like Mary...Mary...who is Mary. LOL!

Linds said...

oh my heck. tears in my eyes. I can so see you getting that picture.