2017 Week 52 Update

Happy New Year!

A new year offers you 365 blank pages. Write the most beautiful chapter of your life in this!

This was a hectic week for us as my parents went back to India last night after spending three months with us. I was quite sad when we dropped them off at the airport.

We also had a small birthday lunch for S over the weekend and that was fun.

The children start school tomorrow and life goes back to the hectic one we usually have during term time.

I’ll do a more detailed year in review post later in the week when I have time to gather my thoughts!

On that note, here’s hoping 2018 is the best year to date! Go forth and rock it!!

In My Hands Today…

The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

12555Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .

In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.

In My Hands Today…

The Ginger Tree – Oswald Wynd

338749In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attaché in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community.

Casting her out of the European community, her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone, Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia, including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.