Missing Home

The weather in Shanghai has become very nice with daytime highs in the 70s and low humidity.  At night you need to put on a light sweater or jacket. Fall was always one of my favorite seasons in Minnesota with the crisp chill in the air, leaves beginning to change color, fall baseball and the football season just getting underway.  We are all missing something from home. 

Landon misses his school friends and seeing Grandma and Grandpa.  Regan misses Huntley and Roscoe along with his friends.  Mason misses Ali and Cynthia misses everyone.  However, we are adjusting to this new life and there are many things that have been added which we would never have had back in Minnesota.  We spend a lot less time watching TV and a lot more time together as a family going out to eat or spending time at the gym.  Regan has a school trip to Beijing this weekend and Landon plays on both defense and offense for his football team.  Mason gets the opportunity to study at the most prestigious college in Shanghai and Cynthia is making many new friends and is enjoying long lunches with lots of laughter. We all attended church together last week and found it to be a great message on families and forgiveness that we all needed to hear. Afterwards we rode our scooter and three wheeler to a restaurant and had a nice meal. 

Cynthia has a new e-mail address if you would like to drop her a line without the whole Smith clan having access, it is crsmith@live.com.  I am sure she would love to hear from you.   If you have Skype you can find us by searching rssmith0214.  We would love to hear from you and if you call remember that we are 13 hours ahead of CST or 14 hours ahead once daylight savings time ends.  Sorry for the melancholy tone of this blog post but it can't be wine and roses all the time.  Take care and stay in touch.