My parents just left this Tuesday after a three-week stay with us in this beautiful culture we live in. We took them to the airport and said our good-byes at the security gate. They were headed to Beijing to spend the night at a hotel becuase their flight was too early in the morning to make it from SY . . . such a weird thing, to send your parents out on an airplane and worry about their survival for the next 15 hours or so! Aren't they supposed to worry about ME??? Of course, I had nothing to fear . . . they were complete champs while they were here, heading out to stores to buy things on their own (yes, i said storeS . . . not just one, mind you) learning to use chopsticks, teaching our Ayi a recipe that we really love, even though neither mom or ayi could understand a word the other said. They made it through the night and I am assuming they made it home . . . when we came home from Chinese class today there were three unanswered calls from thier skype address to ours. Never been prouder to call them my parents . . . this trip was way, way, way out of my mom's comfort zone . . . but she was a champ! And my dad? Well, he suffered a pretty miserable 12 hour flight that never would have been considered before.
Thanks, Mom and Dad, for loving on us these past three weeks, for being such champs in a culture that is so completely different from everything you know, for hours of babysitting, for patiently waiting for us to be done with school each day so we could spend time together . . . and most of all? Thanks for coming to see what our lives look like now. It's much different than we may have ever imagined . . . more tiring, more exciting, more frustrating, more blessed . . . and thanks for letting us share it with you! (taxis and all!) LOL
Enjoy that wood stove!
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The shift to the western world has been a little different, but it is worth a little inconvenience.
Love you, Dad
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