Chinese New Year and New Baby Almost Here

  We experienced our first Chinese New Year here in Hong Kong. We have always been traveling during this holiday before and not in the country, so we were glad to be here for it this year.  It is the most celebrated holiday here and lots goes on during the two...

First Winter in Hong Kong

There are very good reasons why we haven’t updated the blog in over 4 months! Well, even if they are ‘good’ reasons, I will offer them anyway Jay was in the middle of kidney stone pains and ended up undergoing 3 surgeries before it was all over. I was so sick with...

Almost there …

How many times as a kid did I ask “are we there yet?” and my parents replied “we are almost there.” As a kid, I never really understood “almost there.”  It seemed such a long time.  Now as a father, I find myself saying the same thing to our kids “we are almost...

Kidney Stones and a Baby

People say that passing kidney stones and having a baby are similar…the jury is still out on that one. Sorry for the long lapse in time without an update. We have had some circumstances that have prevented us from writing.The good news is that I am about 3 months...

God’s Sovereign Hand Over My IPOD

Yesterday I set up a new playlist called “chill out”.  My goal was to listen to this playlist on my way home from work so I would be calm during the journey of over 1 hour with about 2 million people (not exaggerated).  As I was changing trains, my shuffle took me to...