a couple things you should do today to celebrate:

1) eat mooncake

for several weeks now, the supermarkets have been filled with tons of varying gift boxes containing mooncake, and everyone seems to be getting or receiving mooncake from one place or another.  mooncake comes in varying sizes, outer decoration, and inner filling… so it’s a good excuse to try lots of them.

2) go outside and gaze at the full moon.
the moon is supposed to be at it’s fullest of the entire year during the Mid-Autumn festival.  and tonight’s is supposed to be the brightest in many years.

tonight was a clear comfortable night, and we enjoyed some time gazing at the moon and stars with a couple friends and visiting family.  and yes, the moon really was very bright and round.  I feel like it’s been a long time since i’ve taken time to just look up at the sky and take in the stars and find constellations.  it was a nice feeling.

being a sucker for nice packaging and materials, it made the whole thing that much, well, nicer.    (anyone else make purchases just because of it’s nice packaging?)

then a few weeks ago, i reused the packaging for this little bundle:

*love*

speaking of bundles and packages… wanted to use this post to also share that we are currently in the midst of packing up our home.  (!!)  having lived here just under a year, we are getting ready to move to a different city within China due to my husband’s work.  so in some ways, we’re starting all over again after just starting to feel more settled in in our current home.  this move came as a total surprise to us and came up just 2 weeks after kaylah was born.  needless to say, it’s been a bit crazy around here (thus also the relative quietness of this blog).  but we’re trusting good things will come out of the move and in this next adventure.