Soccer Game

We left in plenty of time to make Joseph's 9:30 am game. Sadly, we missed our exit and found ourselves stuck in traffic on the toll road to Bogor. It took almost 45 minutes for us to loop around. Then we couldn't find the entrance to the school. We finally made it a little after 9:30am. The game had already started but Joseph still had lots of playing time. They played the Pondok Indah Elementary school team from the Jakarta International school so it was Dragons against Dragons. It was a close game but Joseph's team lost. The end score was 3-2.

Joseph: #47/365

This is a picture of my Lego Pirates of the Carribean poster.

 

 

Julia: #47/365

 

Joseph played well today even though the PEL team lost.  I like this picture because he looks happy playing soccer.



 



Full Friday

We have had a busy Friday. I realized I forgot to turn in a permission form for Joseph to play in a strings recital on Monday. I had to fill out the forms and take them to school. Traffic was horrible because there was a demonstration on Sudirman. After our trip to school, Katelyn and I went to Paradise Dynasty Chinese restaurant for lunch. We met up with some of the Taiwanese moms. It was fun but we had to rush back to meet Joseph and Audrey when they got off the bus. Audrey had a friend over for a playdate. The girls had fun. This evening I made fajitas for dinner. Doss helped me make tortillas because they are ridiculously expensive at the store. Dinner was yummy...makes me miss Texas!

Joseph: #46/365

This is a Chinese New Year decoration at school.

 

 

 

Julia: #46/365

 

 

Today we had lunch at the same restaurant that Doss took me to for Valentine's Day.  I think it is my new favorite restaurant in Jakarta. They have the best food.   Katelyn and I met up with some other Taiwanese moms to celebrate our friend Irene's birthday.  We ordered lots of pork dishes...lol.  Katelyn loved the pork dumplings and the pork wontons.  It was all delicious and really, quite reasonably priced.  We will have to take the whole family there sometime.

Paradise Dynasty

Doss took me out for dinner at a Chinese Restaurant called Paradise Dynasty. We got pork dumplings and noodles! The soup dumplings were delicious. There aren't too many places that serve pork so it was a fun treat for Valentine's Day. I made the kids pink heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast. We also got them some fun surprises.

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This is my Valentine's Day surprise.  It is a Ninjago set.

 

 

Julia: #45/365

 

 

Doss with his super big bowl of dumplings and noodles!

Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. The kids have been busy writing out cards for their classmates.

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My mom made rice crispie treats for my class for Valentine's Day.

 

 

Julia: #44/365

 

Joseph made me this cute Valentine's Day card.  Actually, he made me two of them.  This one has a cute drawing of a hamster on the front because my sweet boy knows how much I love hamsters...lol.

Immigration

The kids skipped school today since we had an appointment at the Immigration office to renew our Kitas. By the time we were finished with lunch, the kids would have had 1.5 hours of school left. I let them stay home with our helper. I took off and finally made it to the SOS clinic to see a doctor. He thinks I have a bacterial infection so I am on a 5 day antibiotic treatment. I really hope I start feeling better soon. It is only 7:30pm now and i am feeling totally exhausted again.

Joseph: #43/365

This is the immigration office.

 

 

 

Julia: #43/365

 

The kids were pretty well behaved while we were at the Immigration office.  Afterwards was a whole different story.  Here they are outside the office while we were waiting for the driver to pick us up. 

Asleep

Joseph and I took pictures yesterday. I still wasn't feeling well and ended up going to bed by 7pm. I spent part of the morning cooking spring rolls and dumplings. Then I spent most of the morning in Audrey's class helping with Chinese New Year celebrations. As usual, Monday afternoons I am up at school since the kids have after-school activities until 4pm. I was just really exhausted by the time we got home.

Joseph: #42/365

This is our electric keyboard.

 

Julia: #42/365

Last week, some of the Chinese moms from the school helped me make dumplings for Audrey's class party.  I just had to cook them all the morning of the class party.  I was hoping to have them done early so I could take Katelyn to school to see the Lion dance.  Since the Lion dance started around 7:30am, we didn't make it.  At least the kids enjoyed the dumplings and spring rolls that I brought.  One of the Japanese moms also brought in some sticky rice and candy. 

Happy Year of the Snake!

Today is the 1st day of the Lunar New Year.  We went to church this morning.  After church we had a short choir practice.  Then we ended up waiting for a long time for Doss to get out of ward council meeting.  Our friends met us at our apartment to celebrate Chinese New Year.  I guess I planned just enough food for the amount of people we had.  The menu was: roast duck (purchased from Rice Bowl); Char siu pork, chicken lo mein, dumplings, fried red snapper, spring rolls, stir-fry green beans, and steamed rice.  I also made fortune cookies and put out some oranges.  One of our friends brought some preserved plums. Another one of our friends made raspberry Tiramisu and blueberry crumble.  It was a pretty good meal. The kids had a good time playing together.  Doss and I also learned how to play mah jong.  I had never played before.  It was an interesting game.


Joseph: #41/365

My dad exploded the tire on my bike. He put too much air in it.

 

 

 

 

Julia: #41/365

 

The red snapper I bought wouldn't fit in any of my frying pans.  I ended up frying it on the griddle.