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This year has been quite the roller coaster year. I definitely didn’t see the year coming to an end on the down side though. Here’s a quick recap of how our year went… January started off with a lot of festivities with friends from E’s school. We enjoyed a Japanese New Years dinner followed by a Epiphany celebration a few days later. Then we had snow. Lots and lots of it. Oh, and K starts walking! In February, we celebrated Chinese New Years with friends. We also celebrated K’s 1st birthday and squeezed in a trip to Tokyo Disney before E turned 5 in earlyRead More →

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It’s been several years since Jason and I really celebrated Thanksgiving, even longer since the last time we celebrated with more than just 4 people. It always felt a little sad celebrating it in Tokyo without our entire family since I’ve always celebrated Thanksgiving with a big and loud family get-together and more food than we could eat. This year, since we’ve moved to a bigger place where we can actually invite guests over, we decided to host a Thanksgiving dinner party at our home and invite a few of the families we’ve come to know really well from E’s school. And I have toRead More →

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enjoying a much deserved coffee break (even at 10pm). watching a really weird tv show with Jason about a real live unsolved crime in Japan. listening to my kids fighting when they should be going to bed. making a blog post! feeling very tired after a very long summer with the kids home from school. planning on all the projects I can work on now that the school year starts from tomorrow on. loving the day we had today when we invited a few of our good friends over for a playdate/lunch. It’s always a lot of fun to be with people who are easyRead More →

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Currently, enjoying all the space we have in our new apartment. Seriously, it feels a lot more comfortable having space for the kids to run around and still have room for all our stuff. watching regular Japanese tv. We seem to be having trouble getting our cable set up so I’ve been watching Japanese tv a lot. It’s been interesting since I seem to understand bits and pieces of the news and the shows I watch. reading Octonaut stories. E is really into Octonauts right now and I bought a few story books to read to the kids. Of course, I seem to fall asleepRead More →

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It’s been 3 weeks since we moved to our new place. Everyday, I make an effort to unpack a little and make our home look more like a home. Of course, at this point, I’m sick of unpacking boxes and wondering where I will put things since we have more things than we need. Hopefully, I can get rid of more stuff soon. Here’s a quick peek into what our apartment looks like now. This is our laundry/bath/powder room. It was the first room to be finished which is great since now I can do laundry and have a place to fold and store them.Read More →

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We’ve been living at our new apartment for a week already but I still feel like I’m drowning in this endless pile of boxes from our move. So last Monday, everything we owned was packed up. There were so many boxes, it spilled out into the elevator hallway of our floor. I’m sure our neighbors were thrilled to come home to see this wall of boxes. Our old apartment was too small to hold all the boxes which worried me a little since I wasn’t sure if our new one would be able to hold all of these boxes either. Luckily, our new place isRead More →

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Tonight is our last night in our current apartment. We spent the day cleaning and throwing stuff out while the movers packed everything we owned into cardboard boxes. Tomorrow morning, they will finish up with the packing and move everything to the new apartment. It’s been a very tiring day because we have so much stuff to pack and clean. There’s mostly furniture and a few boxes of stuff left now. The movers have loaded up the majority of our boxes into the moving truck. It’s really weird seeing how bare our apartment is. The last time it was this empty was when we firstRead More →

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…trying not to go crazy from all the non-packing going on. We hired movers to help us pack everything and they’re coming the day before the move to do all that. …trying to throw away things we don’t need so that we don’t have to bring it with us to the new apartment. …enjoying the last “normal” day in our apartment. Movers are coming tomorrow afternoon to pack everything up. …appreciating how much light we get from our window in the living room. I’ve always thought that we didn’t get enough light but lately, I’ve been enjoying how much indirect sunlight we get all day.Read More →