A couple of neat things from this weekend:<\/p>\n
Saw our first ladybug :)\u00c2\u00a0 When we first found it, it seemed dead and just sat motionless in my hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, it started to move it’s legs a bit, then started walking all over my hand.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave it to my youngest daughter, Marley (a.k.a. bug-lover) so she could let it go free.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, we were driving home and noticed a new antique furniture store having a sale.\u00c2\u00a0 We’d never been to this store, and thought we’d stop by to see what they had.\u00c2\u00a0 My husband went in and I stayed in the truck with the kids…he’d call on his cell phone if there was anything we might all want to see.\u00c2\u00a0 He called right away and said, “this place is filled with antiques from China!”\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, we all went right in and were felt transported back in time to ancient China.\u00c2\u00a0 The proprietor was a very nice older Chinese gentlemen who spoke broken English.\u00c2\u00a0 Each item was tagged with it’s approximate age, province of origin, and type of material used in the item.\u00c2\u00a0 The gentleman told us that the items were actually much older than documented on their tag….China will only allow antique items “younger” than 150 years old to leave the country.\u00c2\u00a0 So, these were all tagged around 100 years old.\u00c2\u00a0 There were beautiful chests, wardrobes, baskets, pottery, benches, paintings, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 We found a chest that was completely made of leather, even the hinge.\u00c2\u00a0 We ended up buying a wonderful low bench, aspen wood and metal basket, and oil lamp holder.\u00c2\u00a0 My oldest daughter loves China and we were buying her a ceramic soup spoon, but the gentlemen “threw it in” for free.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t help but think, what if the ancestors of our child made this bench or basket and here I was, holding it in my lap?\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll be back to that store.<\/p>\n
Our last 2 documents are at the Houston consulate today!\u00c2\u00a0 I’m anxious to have them back so we can send our dossier to CCAI this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of neat things from this weekend: Saw our first ladybug :)\u00c2\u00a0 When we first found it, it seemed dead and just sat motionless in my hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, it started to move it’s legs a bit, then started walking all over my hand.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave it to my youngest daughter, Marley (a.k.a. bug-lover) so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}