Tag: Family

• Happy Birthday, Hei Hei!

  

  My boy, Athan or Hei Hei as we lovingly call him, is now officially a teenager! Wow, how time has flown by! He’s going to be in Grade 8 this September and we’re all very proud of him. God has blessed him with many graces and I’d like to share some of them with you…

• Date with Kids: An Update

  

  Back in 2018, Renee and I started a family ritual of taking turns to go on 1-on-1 dates with each of the kids. I wrote about this briefly in my 2019 review post. We have continued this family ritual and only wish we have more consistency in it. At times, we would do this a…

• Dropping Off the Teenager in the Mornings

  

  Adele is in grade 9 now and takes the Mississauga bus to school.  She has to catch the 7:15 am bus in order to get to school on time.  Since the bus stop is about 1 km away, I had decided to drop her off in the mornings.  It’s a short 3-minute roundtrip and it’s…

• Family Alberta Trip 2021

  

  After being mostly cooped up at home for a year and a half after the COVID pandemic started in 2020, we made our first out-of-province trip in September 2021.  The last time Renee and I were in Western Canada was before we had kids, about 13 years prior (although I had been several times in…

• Clearly Loved: A Chronicle of Andrea's Birth

  

    1-day Old at the Hospital When we found out that our 6th child will be a girl, one thing that we knew was going to be difficult was naming her.  When we named Athan (Athanasius is his actual name, which is that of one of the great Doctors of the Church, and means “eternal…

• COVID-19 Baby Boom? Is it real? Yes…and No. 6 is On Its Way!

  

  Yes, we have anecdotal evidence that the COVID-19 lockdown has started a baby boom!  Renee and I are pleased to introduce Baby No. 6!  Amelia is now two and a half years old so we’re definitely overdue! LOL! This time, we’re really going to fill the Odyssey and there will not be any spots for…

• 2019: A Year in Review – Part III: The Kids

  If you haven’t read Part I and Part II, please do! How can a 2019 review be complete without talking about the kids?! Mommy/Daddy and Kid Dates We have been asked whether with so many kids, the younger ones get less of our attention.  Answer is definitely a yes.  How could it not be so? …

• 2019: A Year in Review – Part II: Our Travels

  Trip to Tobermory Before we start…if you haven’t read Part I of my 2019 review, go here. A few years ago, I wrote about the perception of the acceleration of time, that is, that time seems to pass by more quickly as we age.  Since then, I read that this can be explained by our…

• 2019: A Year in Review – Part I: Year Overview

  I had tried starting this post before the coronavirus outbreak, but did not get any progress until now.  It’s April 11, 2020 and I’ve been home since before March Break, which would make this the start of week #5.  Not sure if this is affecting anyone else, but I feel especially lethargic from a work…

• Goodbye, 阿婆 (Grandma)!

  A few of you know that I’m currently in Hong Kong to say my last goodbye to my grandmother. She passed away on May 2.  This post is part trip journal and part tribute to her. 阿婆 On Our Wedding Day, August 5, 2006 April 28, 2019 I’m 30,000 ft in the air as I…