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Given how it’s New Year’s Eve today in Tokyo, I feel like I should put up one last post for the year. So lets take a look back at 2012 and all the events that happened. This year has been a fairly quiet year here on Hamster Central since real life situations made it difficult for me to keep up with the blogging world. Hopefully things will be better next year but with the arrival of next child in February, who knows what will happen right? I started the year off with the word “change” as the word that will help guide me through 2012.Read More →

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This morning, I carried a half awake E to her school after a 15 minute bus ride from our home. I greeted the teachers who were signing in each student as their parents dropped them off. I told her teachers she would be staying later today for the after school Christmas party and I gave E a kiss on the head. I told her to have fun at the party and that we’ll see her after school. Then I left for work knowing that at the end of the day when I pick her up, she will have a huge smile on her face andRead More →

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Last week, I had a miscarriage. There. I said it. I have been trying to avoid writing this post this past week because I just couldn’t bring myself to write the words and the feelings that came with it. I thought I was ready. I have been thinking about what to say these past few days but for the life of me, everything is so jumbled up and muddled in my head that I can’t remember what I had wanted to say. So how am I feeling right now? Tired. Exhausted. A little bit numb. Last week, though, I was a bit of a mess.Read More →