I flew to Malaysia about 10 days ago with my two girls. The 26-hour flight with one transit in Hong Kong was thankfully uneventful; Erika refused to sleep and watched lots of movies until she got on the second flight and just passed out while sitting up with the lights on and a movie playing; Amelia napped a bunch and was restless and attempted to ( Read more... )

Today has been an emotionally tough day for me. I cried when I woke up. I cried on my drive to work. I cried in the bathroom at work. I cried in the car on the way home ( Read more... )

Lately I've been finding myself speaking to my baby toddler Amelia in Xin-Ning, a dialect/language that is spoken by no one in my extended family except for my semi-senile (otherwise healthy) 95-year old grandmother (who, by the way, lives halfway across the globe in Singapore). Most days, she forgets she speaks the language herself, because she's ( Read more... )

Delayed December 31: Best moment of the month (
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Left Friday morning for the airport. It had been snowing since 3 AM so we were all concerned that flights would be delayed/cancelled. When we got to the airport, sure enough the plane had to sit on the tarmac for quite a while, as they had to de-ice the plane and prepare the runway, etc. We took off, only 30 minutes delayed.And we landed in sunny ( Read more... )