Who Needs Fire?

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of being reunited with our cat. For those of you who don’t know, before we went to the US for the summer, we left our cat and her three-day-old kittens in the care of one of the ladies who attends our church. That’s right; Mimi delivered a litter of 8 kittens three days before we left. The lady from church was kind enough to take care of them in our absence. She fed them and gave them shelter, and after they were old enough, she gave the kittens away. Thank goodness! I did not want to have to find homes for more kittens. At any rate, we didn’t hear much from the woman over the summer. We only got news from her twice. The last time we heard, she had given away all but one of the kittens. After we returned to China, we called her and were pleased to find the she had given away the remaining kitten. She also said that we could pick Mimi up whenever we wanted. Katie was very eager to do so. This past Thursday, she did. She went alone bec

Wow! Our time back in the USA really went by fast. I can’t believe that we are back in China already. We arrived on Friday night, and it took us a long time to get back home because the rush hour traffic in Shanghai was atrocious. The normally three=hour drive took us a little over four hours. We were exhausted. When we arrived at our apartment, it didn’t take us too long to realize that mold had been working hard over the summer. Our bed, shoes, floors, clothes, and kitchen were covered in a thin layer of olive green mold. So not cool… So for the past few days, Katie and I have been systematically cleaning and sterilizing everything in our apartment, all while fighting off jetlag, which has been rough this year. Saturday we laid down for a nap at 1pm, and woke up at 11:30pm. We stayed up and made it to the following night though. We thought it might be over until our four and a half hour nap from 4pm to 8:30pm yesterday. Jetlag is brutal when there is a 13 hour time diffe