We’re on R&R leave this week. For those of you not familiar with the aid world, R&R stands for Rest and Relaxation. Twice a year Mike gets an extra week …
Thailand
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We left Laos at 7am today and by 11 we were walking alongside a road in Thailand, sweating. The lady at the hotel had said the nearest restaurant was just …
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The doctors at the hospital felt confident enough to discharge us yesterday … until I mentioned that Dominic had started to cough and sneeze. As it turns out, he was …
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We’re here at Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok. I tried to organize this into some sort of coherent update by good, bad and ugly categories, but I not feeling coherent enough …
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So I sort of promised more from Bangkok this week, but I’ve failed on that front. I woke up at 6am in Bangkok this morning and was back in Laos …
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Well, we’re back from Thailand and we hit the ground running this week. Although, after a full week of looking at this on Koh Tao… And this on Koh Samui… …
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Pregnancy
Ten good things about boys: Attaining synthetic happiness one gender stereotype at a time
by LisaAs we’ve been mulling over the fact that we’re having a boy this week, Mike and I have been talking about all things little boy and little girl. It started …
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All the women at Mike’s office want it to be a girl. Our landlady wants it to be a girl. Mike’s mother, after having two boys of her own, wants …
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Get up at 6:40. Go with Mike to his office. Go to airport. Plane delayed one hour. Receive phone call from colleague informing us that CNN says there’s a tropical …