Happy Father’s Day Happy Father’s Day to all dadas, daddies, papas and fathers out there. What a blessing it is to have you in our lives. Even though moms can care for the kids when they feel sad or sick, daddies build up their confidence and make them grow to be better men and women. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Expat Life
{ExpatLife}: Ten Tips to Settling Down with Your Kids
Moving season is at its peak. Everyone seems to be moving in, moving out or moving around! Moving is never easy and moving with kids is even more challenging. At the end it’s all worth it. Sometimes we can’t help but think about the chaos that transferring from one place to another entails, however, I … Continue reading
A Week in Snapshots: ❊04/06/12-10/06/12❊
What a week, what a week. Daddy is finally back from his work trip and we couldn’t be happier. With most of our friends getting ready to leave for the summer, or leave for good =( , we have been busy meeting with them and also meeting new friends. The boys went back to their … Continue reading
{ExpatLife}: How to throw a fabulous party while overseas without overspending
We love throwing parties. We are always looking for excuses to have our friends come over and have a good time. We’ve found, however, that things that seemed much more simple at home can become a bit complicated overseas. We don’t have a party supply store, a Target or a dollar store available so we … Continue reading
My Interview at Blog Expat
Hi, this is an interview I recently did for BlogExpat.com. You can find it here. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. My name is Ana Gaby, short for Ana Gabriela. With a telenovela name like that you can probably tell I come from somewhere in Latin America. … Continue reading
A Week in Snapshots: ❊28/05/12-03/06/12❊
Wow, we are halfway thru 2012 and time has really flown by! We’ve definitely had our share of adventures and misadventures and we are so thankful to God for everything. Joshua is turning 6 months next week and Evan has become a remarkable big brother. I don’t have so many pictures from this week, or … Continue reading
Kids in Jakarta
I recently contributed this article to the ExpatArrivals website about kids in Jakarta. I hope you find it useful and I would love to hear the experiences, whether similar or different, of any other expat parents here in Jakarta. Kids in Jakarta With a growing expat community, Jakarta boasts many International Schools with excellent standards, … Continue reading
A Week in Snapshots: ❊21/05/12-27/05/12❊
We have had a very blessed week. As you probably saw on my earlier posts we celebrated our anniversary this week. I’m so grateful to be married to my best friend and I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life with him and see our little boys grow. On a less cheesy … Continue reading
Bliss… The Spa at the Four Seasons Hotel in Jakarta
My awesome husband surprised me with a four-hour spa treatment for our Anniversary! Last Wednesday he stayed home from work and told me to make sure I didn’t have anything going on for the next few hours. I arranged for the kids to be taken to their Kindyroo classes without me and just waited excitedly … Continue reading
Ni de aquí, Ni de allá: Los niños de la tercera cultura; relaciones locales, almas globales
Disclaimer: Please excuse the fact that this article is in Spanish but it is an article I wrote that was published in the IberoAmerican Association Quartely Magazine “El Pregonero”. If you speak Spanish, enjoy, if you don’t, No Hay Problema and come back soon for the English version. Y tú, ¿De dónde eres? Una pregunta … Continue reading