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Baby, Books, Cool Tool Tuesdays, Funny, Geek, Parenting, Personal

Cool Tool Tuesdays: The Baby Owner’s Manual

Feb 14. 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, hardware, material, or website that I have personally tried and love. Do you have any questions about today’s cool tool? Would you like an item featured in the future? Please leave a comment to this post, or send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! Do you remember the episode of Friends titled "The One with the Baby Shower"? Yes, I know Bamboozled is an epic game show we would all like to see live on TV, but I would like...

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Aerin, Claire, Motherhood, Personal

T-Minus Two Weeks

Feb 13. 2012

One of my ex-boyfriends is just 15 months younger than his older sister. When we started dating, he told me how, shortly after he was born, his parents sent his sister to go live with the grandparents for a year because taking care of two very young kids — one of whom was extremely colicky — was just too difficult for his mother. I remember reacting to this story with judgement. "HOW can anyone send their own child away? That's just absurd!" Now, being a mother to two children just 13 months apart, I can understand why they did this. Not that I want to send Claire or Aerin away, but I can understand. In just a couple of weeks, J's parents will...

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Christianity, Personal, Reverent Sundays

Reverent Sundays: Five Things I Took Away from “Crazy Love”

Feb 12. 2012

A few months ago, I received a surprise package in the mail: it was the book Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan, gifted to me from my dear friend E who wished that I would gain as much from the book as she had. I had heard of Crazy Love on various occasions in the past, and I had even had it on my Amazon wishlist for quite some time, so the gift was very much appreciated. (Thanks, E!) The premise behind Crazy Love is to challenge the state of complacency that plague many Christians today, and to encourage us to love God the way that He deserves to be loved. Because, as the author Pastor Chan puts it, "when you’re...

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NYC, Personal, Sports

Anyone Else Going LINsane?

Feb 11. 2012

Having grown up in New York, I have been a New York Knicks fan since (my generation's version of) the Knicks's glory days in the 1990s. I cried when they lost the 1999 NBA Finals. Meeting Allan Houston was one of the high points of my life. And, I remained true to my boys in blue & orange despite their flat-out dismal performance for the past decade. Being an Asian American myself, I couldn't help but be intrigued when the Knicks picked up Jeremy Lin in late December. I had heard good things about the Harvard grad, but remained skeptical. I guess I have been a victim of the Knickerbocker heartache for far too long, because I continued to stay doubtful when Lin...

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Aerin, Baby, Claire, Parenting, Personal

The Worst Things About Having Two Young Kids…

Feb 10. 2012

...is that they will wake each other up in the middle of the night. Claire had been sleeping 10-12 hours straight through the night since she was about 9 months old. And as you can imagine, all that changed when a screaming newborn came into the picture. And while this issue wasn't quite as bad during the second month of Aerin's life, when she regularly slept 7-8 hours straight through the night, it has recently become more serious as Aerin seems to have hit her 4-month sleep regression a few weeks early — waking up practically every hour during the night for the past week. Aerin has been sleeping in our room — in her bassinet, the swing, or on our bed — since...

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