After coming back from a month spent with family in the UK, we are now back in China – this time, Beijing. And I haven’t written a single blog post since! And why might that be? Because 36 hours and two almost completely sleepless nights after being back, I became a working mum, i.e. a mum […]
A couple of weeks ago I made a flying visit to Beijing to sort out some stuff and it was my first night away from baby Z, which was difficult. But the best part about it was the 2 hours waiting in the airport on the plane ON MY OWN. Completely on my own, no baby, […]
‘Hello’ in Chinese is pretty easy, right? Nee how! (你好 ni2hao3). Most children know it, and you can hear it shouted at you in the street, just as we might hear ha lou shouted at us in the street. But anyone who is part of a Chinese family probably knows it’s not that easy. Because […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 圣诞快乐！ This is my second Christmas in China, but my first as a family of three, and our first in our more permanent home, so I really had a chance to create some atmosphere and get into the Christmas spirit*. So I decided to throw a Christmas party for R’s cousins! You can […]
I’ve been back in China with my little boy for over 3 months now, so I thought it’s about time for an update about life as a yangxifu 洋媳妇. That is the name of this blog after all. Being a mum in China has taught me a lot about the culture, probably more than anything […]
When I visited Hong Kong back in October 2014, I was already 4 months pregnant. I wasn’t really showing, although I guess my belly was a bit rounded as I did get offered a seat on the MTR a couple of times. Whilst I was in HK, I talked about my pregnancy with my good […]
I can’t believe it, I am well into my third trimester of pregnancy and the time has come for me to go back to the UK and prepare for the baby’s arrival in early Spring. When I found out I was pregnant last Summer, I was just about the start a new Chinese course here […]
Welcome to my 1st post of 2015, and my 20th post in the 5 months. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed to my blog and everyone who comes to read any one of my posts, I’ve loved it. I’m looking forward to continuing this year with more and more interesting topics. I’ve been lucky over […]
