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::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::
::Author::  Name::Andrea From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome. View my complete 
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Sunday, December 24, 2006 Merry Christmas Eve Everyone!!!!! Christmas Eve is always a little crazy with my dads family. It is when the whole family gets together in one house to eat a feast and talk away. And Talk we do! Non stop I tell ya. LOL.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos This year we were missing a couple of people – Uncle J and Aunt M and the girls went back east to visit Uncle J’s family and Aunt R and the boys were off on a family cruise and Cousin S lives back east. This meant there were oonnlllyyy 20 people in Dad’s house, not counting to kids under two – so I guess there were really 22 people there. TONS of food – Grandma’s famous coleslaw (which Li thinks he may have figured out the recipe) and a whole slew of other foods. This year we added a fried potatoes dish rather than scallop potatoes and it worked great (Li made it) and a seafood fried rice dish that Li made with my one step sis in mind because she doesn’t eat meat.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos Went over great!  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos And then we talked and talked and talked some more. Drank and drank and drank some more and the food just kept on coming in the form of deserts and snacks. Ya - a typical Christmas family dinner.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos The only thing we didn’t do this year was open presents. Normally we do, although the presents are bought just for the littlest of kids and Grandma tends to sneak in a few extras. Only thing was that ToddlerJi finally requested to go to bed around 8:30 after playing none stop with her awesome cousin D. Those two were crazy together and it was beautiful to watch.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos At about that same time my nephew keeled over in his mom’s arms and was no longer in tune with the party going on.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos Personally it was kind of nice not opening presents – more relaxing in a way. No pressure. Missed the present opening and yet didnt.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos (These were the only people that we could get to sit down all at once. The others hid at the word photo time. LOL) I had a nice long bath after we sort of cleaned up and then had a comatose night sleeps. It was great to see everyone again and there are tons of photos but mostly of family. Well a ton of ToddlerJi hehehe. It was a nice evening.  Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS tomorrow everyone!!! Technorati Tags: Christmas Eve 2006
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