Before I Forget

I hardly blogged at all during the year 2009. So I just want to hurry and type down everything I can remember about that year, before I forget.


January
Wow, it's hard to recall that far back, but knowing me I probably threw an amazing new year party with balloon animals, a live band and a few rounds of spin the bottle, which was a little bit awkward because all the guests were family members.
Or I might have just gone to bed early, forgetting it was even a holiday.

February

My husband was in China and I was living with my parents and celebrating Black History Month all by myself :(

March

My husband returned and Evan turned four.

I ordered a cake from walmart, hoping I'd have something worthy to submit to the cake wrecks blog, too bad the cake turned out pretty decent.

Blast that Walmart and their excellent customer service.

April
We arrived in China.

The kids kept asking when we were going back to Merica, and I cried every time I had to say "NEVER!"

May
I think we were still in China; it was really hot and humid and we seldom left the house, except at night to go to the night market and get grilled squid on a stick for the kids.

June
Z turned 26, I actually blogged about that one.

July
Drove past a restaurant and saw a dog and sheep being skinned.
Officially became a vegetarian.

August

Took a trip to Z's hometown to renew his passport.

Rode on the night train; the kids loved it.

See those big guys sitting over by the wall?

Yeah, they slept right above us, kind of scary. Surprisingly those beds are pretty strong. So if you're ever in the market for some bunk beds to put in your train, talk to China, they know what they're doing.

It was a lot of fun visiting Z's hometown. I've heard so much about it and it really is just as tiny and quaint as he said it was.

It's about the size of a football field.

September

The weather was cooling down so we went out a lot, on the bus.

Went to this kids play place a lot.

This enormous ball pit used to be a swimming pool.

Meici tried to win a pack of cigarettes.

I think she got addicted to all that second-hand smoke she was forced to breathe all the time.

October

Chinese calendars don't have the word "Halloween" written on them, so nobody knows that your supposed to dress up and give away candy. So the primary president got her apartment complex to participate in trick-or-treating. But I guess she forgot to mention you're supposed to pass out CANDY, not beef jerky, dried seaweed, and prunes. But the kids had a lot of fun anyway.

November

Said sayonara to China and Hola to America.

Before we left, Z ate his weight in silkworms.

December

Meici turned three.

Found a place to live in the same apartment complex as my brother and his family.

Spent Christmas with my family in southern Utah.

The cousins started a band.

Evan got kicked out of that band for creative differences.

Okay now that that's all typed, I can clear some space in my brain for trying to figure out what's happening in LOST.

I think I'm going to have to make more room.

Here's a memory I'm happy to clear out:

Once my brothers were all outside playing games and stuff and I asked if I could join them and they said no, so I ran inside and cried while watching them through the window, then they saw me crying and came over to the window, I thought they felt bad for me and were going to invite me to play with them but instead they all just started singing "How Much is that Doggy in the Window."