Jackie's Japan Journal

15 years ago we bought our first car, a Toyota Noah, 8 seat people carrier. It was a good car, few problems, but we kept the engine maintain...

Even though it has been five months since my husband passed away I am still dealing with things that were left undone by his sudden death! C...

So summer has arrived, early and hot. I don't do well in the heat at all and this year it is going to be even harder. In the summer I ...

Last night I was reading back on my blog and realised that i started this blog one year ago!  If anybody had said a year ago that I would be...

The past few days have been rather busy.  Beginning of the new school year is full of teacher home visits, new schedules and trying to figur...

Crazy busy.  Ten days without washing machine makes things rather difficult!  I tried to wash a few things by hand but wringing them out was...

My kids are amazing.  They are handling things a lot better than I am!   Of course they are sad and grieving but I am so lucky that they are...