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Boroichi Finds & Holiday Swapping

This past Saturday I went out to the Setagaya Boroichi street market with Ms. M. This market is held every December 15th and 16th and January 15th and 16th. The market is a tradition that is now over 400 years old. We had such a good time, and had some great finds. I was most […]

Birthdays and Travelling

Squirrel turned the big #1 on Sunday! She thoroughly enjoyed the experience of eating chocolate and birthday icecream cake for the first time. She was a little frightened by all of the attention she was receiving when we sang Happy Birthday to her, but she got over it quickly with that first taste of chocolate […]

Good Friday

No, not that Good Friday! Today is “Good Friday” because it is filled with “good things”. I read a quote yesterday, by Sōetsu Yanagi, who said, “Most of us today have grown so commonplace that we cannot see the extraordinary save in the exceptional.” I think it is important to look for the extraordinary in […]

Gingerbread Memories

There are so many recipes that hold so many memories for me during the Christmas season. During the past couple of days I have been craving gingerbread cookies. Out of the recipes that I have tried to date, this one is my favorite. I haven't made them yet this year, and I didn't end up […]

Holdover Tenant

Dear Squirrel, One year ago today you were due to be born. Your lease was up and it was time to move out. December 8th, 2006 was the ending date of our original lease agreement between me, your landlord, and you, my tenant. However, on this day one year ago, you chose to continue to […]

Visitors

Yesterday was a special day for our family–it was St. Nicholas Day! We woke up yesterday morning to find our shoes filled with goodies. I even had a surprise gift from St. Nick this year–a beautiful poinsettia, AND Fuji-san chose to make an appearance again! What a wonderful day. For the past few months we […]

Patron Mountain Strikes Again!

Today was a Fuji Day. Do you remember what happened on my last Fuji Day? The appearance of my patron mountain always seems to lift my spirits, and today was no exception. Today I also found new benefits to the presence of Fuji-san. Not only does my patron mountain put me into a good mood, […]

Holiday Card Exchange–Do you want to receive a rat by snail mail?

Ysolda, a fellow blogger, started a holiday card exchange with her blog readers last year, is doing it again this year, and is encouraging other bloggers to do the same. I think this sounds like such a fun idea, that I’m going to do my own. To give it my own little twist, I’m going […]

Did ya miss me?

Ok, so I almost had to tie myself down to prevent myself from trying to type out a post last night at 11:00 pm. I had to keep telling myself, “It’s alright. Your blog will still be there tomorrow. You deserve a break. You deserve to go to bed right now. Your blog is sick […]

THANK YOU!

Today marks 31 days of blogging EVERY SINGLE DAY! I did it! Thanks to NaBloPoMo for the fun challenge, but especially thank you to all of you. I loved hearing from all of you who “delurked”–thank you for your comments. For at least the rest of this month, I don’t think I will be posting […]

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