Author: Shay

  • Carpet Cleaning on New Year’s Eve

    I just spent most of New Year’s Eve shampooing the carpet of my rental house on a cold, wet, winter day. Oh, and I slept in the hallway last night on a temporary bed pad. What do these two things have in common? Puke. The entire family is sick and have been for three days…

  • Christmas Tree 2016

    It’s our 8th annual Christmas Tree video! Enjoy and Merry Christmas from the Thomason family! If you want to see all the videos from previous years, please click here.

  • One Year Back in America

    Today marks our one year anniversary back in the States. It was just a year ago today, November 7, that we boarded Czech Airlines in Prague and made the long journey back to the United States after only about seventeen months in Czech Republic. Although the decision had been made months before, that day marked the end…

  • Two Years Later

    On this date, two years ago, we lifted off from Los Angeles headed for Czech Republic. Just prior to lifting off, I wrote this Tweet: Bye America. — Shay Thomason (@shaycam) June 24, 2014 I sent that Tweet out at 10:00pm and I remember feeling really tired. I also remember getting our kids settled into…

  • One Year Old

    Every day I get a text message asking me one simple question: “What are you grateful for today?” It comes from a little service I signed up for called Gratefulness and each time I receive the text I reply back with something I’m grateful for that day. This past week my responses were: THAT THERE’S…