China trip

Lately, I've been spending unbelievable amounts of time coordinating our trip to China. Connor has been diligently studying Mandarin, and we are all counting the days until we bring our new sons home. We've decided to stop doing the daily "SAT Prep" questions that we do for half an hour a day, and spend even more time on Chinese. Today I found that I can custom order M & M candies with phrases and photos. I'm thinking of buying some to give as gifts while in China. Connor can write out the Chinese characters for Thank You, for instance, and we can have them printed on the candy. Might be fun. Also, Connor called Canon to request the manual for our camera, and then he spent quite awhile figuring out all its functions. He already knows more about operating the camera than I do, and I've owned it 7 years! I didn't even know it could tape short videos!! I told him he can have the camera in China, and that proved quite an incentive to learn photography. Cooking is another thing that has captured Connor's imagination lately. He made hickory bark syrup last week, and everyone loved it so much that it's gone already. It's better than real maple syrup, and not too difficult to make. Next up, homemade bread. Yum.