Jin Family

After living almost my whole life in a place with only two seasons (hot and less hot), I've started to really love fall here! The girls at a totally random Halloween party with

I mean, it's hard to say what's normal in our life. But I guess if I had to pick something to call normal, it would be this. Playing outside! This guy has gotten

Now that I've finally finished talking about our summer trip to the States and Korea, I can tell you about our "normal" life back here. The big thing is that we've

One last post about our summer trip! It's a dollhouse. But the International Space Station. Coolest dollhouse ever.First of all, teaching M science has made me realize that I didn't learn anything

Apparently, I just can't bear the thought of traveling somewhere and not doing a hike. Like, if you're going to see the world, you should see the world, right? Worth itHowever, I was

Our trip is pretty well summarized by two words: food and coffee. Yep, see? Food. And coffee. Look how happy I am.Oh my goodness, I cannot say enough good things about Korea.

This was not the girls' first time for an aunt or uncle to get married. But it's the first one in a long time! Posing at the bridal showerFirst of all, we would've

Our trip this summer was a lot of people's first time to see G. And he loved all the attention! That was his first day to meet Honey and Pops.This guy is

Can you imagine a 3.5 year old who actually has no idea what an elephant looks like? I swear posing for pictures with the animal sculptures is the girls' favorite part of

We usually go back during the winter, but because of the immigration stuff, this year we also made a trip in the summer. And the girls were big fans of being able to

Oh my goodness, where do I start? M and her teacherThis would just never, ever happen in the US. On so many levels. So, M practiced dances for weeks to perform in the

Well, I did not intend to take a six week break from posting. But we just spent four totally insane weeks in the States doing medical/immigration stuff, and the blog just did

Since we've had so much more interaction with medicine here between looking into G's situation and dealing with M's eyes, many of you have expressed surprise at what it's like. So I've been

Even though this is supposed to be a desert, last Saturday it rained the entire day, so we didn't get to do our normal playing outside. The kids were devastated. So we invented

He's just so stinking cute, I can't resist sharing more pictures. He's smelling the tree.First of all. WHOA. Like, you hear that kids change a lot after being adopted, but I just

Since the adoption, I've been so overwhelmed by life that I haven't even had energy to sew, other than a few easy things here and there. You know it's bad when you're too

Last week, the girls had an unexpected three days off of school (plus the weekend made five), so we had a lot of time to hang out all together at home. We tried

You would've thought we'd be done with epic Children's Day celebrations for this year after that school event. Happy Children's Day!But apparently, we felt the need to still go out on actual

For those readers who have never lived in a small non-Western city, you may not know that traveling for medical care is a normal part of life. Peppa Pig on the plane.We

Oh my goodness, I can barely believe we survived this activity. M enjoying the games in the activityThe girls' school had an event this past Sunday to celebrate Children's Day, which is coming

Okay, so this is probably the calm before the storm, but for now our home school supplementing is actually really leisurely. M's drawing of the water cycleSo, home school always takes a lot

It's been unusually warm here these past few weeks, and we have really enjoyed being outside! Making a train down the slideOne reason we've been outside more is that G needs a lot

We're getting there, slowly but surely! He wanted a headbandWell, it has been an adventure. I can hardly believe we're all still alive. But we are making progress! In the beginning, we could

We usually have a party for Easter and invite a lot of the kids' friends, but given the survival stage thing (see previous post), I thought we should maybe do something more chill

Well, we are very excited to have finally completed our adoption and to have three kids! But oh my goodness, we are exhausted. But how can you not love such cuteness?First of