Oct
11
2012
Every baby grows up at some milestone, and I think that this is probably the last one for our little one to finally be a little girl rather than a baby girl. Scarlett has been asking about haircuts for a while now and with UNIS about to start for a new year the whole family [...]
Tags: Haircut, Lancy Spa, Scarlett, sparkly nails, UNIS, YouTube
Oct
11
2012
During our Summer vacation, we visited the USA. It has been a while since we saw the Hamada relatives in California, and we made time to try and see all the nearest and dearest whilst in that neck of the woods. First stop, the very generous and loving Aunt Riki and Uncle Shuji who made [...]
Tags: appendix, brave, California, Disney, Lucile Packard Children Hospital, Palo Alto, Pixar, surgery
Oct
30
2011
Bitexco Vertical Marathon I have had an extraordinary weekend. The story begins in April, over the swimming pool of Hua Hin, I met a mother of 2 who was incredibly fit and asked her what she did – she must have a secret – and she told me that she was a runner and had [...]
Sep
22
2011
So, it has now been over a month since I handed over sole parent duty to our nanny, Su, and returned back to UNIS Hanoi full time. I have to say that it was not too difficult to begin with to head back to the classroom and to enjoy seeing my students and engaging in [...]
Tags: guilt, Mel, mother, UNIS, work
Aug
28
2011
This year marks the start of Oscar’s fourth year at UNIS Hanoi. This year he is in Grade 1 with Ms. Julia and is his first year in the Elementary School! It is also Ophelia’s first year at UNIS! She is so excited to be in Ms. Heidi’s Discovery class. Needless to say, she is [...]
Tags: beginnings, ECC, ES, school, UNIS
Aug
14
2010
and so a new and very diligent chapter of our lives begins….
Tags: crawling, Scarlett
Apr
18
2010
Where did they go???? Listen to Oscar talk about how he pulled it out. Oscars Missing Tooth
Tags: Oscar, teeth, Tooth Fairy