So as I mentioned in my previous posting, my sister is moving to Hong Kong, away from her family here in the States, to be with her man.  I just want to take this time to give my potential brother-in-law a message as someone who has been a sister to his girlfriend for…eh, enough years! Dear K, I hope you know how lucky you are to be with my sister, but even a lucky man like yourself still needs to hear some words from a potential sister-in-law that loves her sister very much!  Oh and my mom also has some of those same feelings as I have below so word to the wise, you should read all of it just in case she "tests" you on it!  Know it's a huge sacrifice for her to be moving almost 7,000 miles from her family in San Francisco…just for you!  No pressure, but pressure! Don't you dare mistreat her, treat her with more care than you would the most precious diamonds. She is beautiful and special so do everything you can to tell her … [Read more...]

I have been a bit MIA lately, there has been a lot going on and I've been trying to take some time to process them but they just keep on comin'!  From my mom getting hit with an ER visit, to Honey getting laid off, illnesses, and my sister's upcoming move to Hong Kong.  Though I have to say, even though they are all equally stressful, it's been pretty hard thinking about my sister, one of my BFFs, moving across the world without me.  That's made me super emotional and actually depressed.  Darn Tina, why do you have to make me cry almost every night!  Just when I thought we were going to get more time together since she stopped working at her last job that had her living 2 lives, one in Hong Kong and one here in the States, then she hits me with the news that she's moving.  Actually, I guessed she was interviewing and asked her if that was true and she confirmed my fears! My sister and I shared a room forever growing up, spent late … [Read more...]

Wow, I know, I'm totally behind on this post but hey, I still have 11 months before 2013 is over so that's plenty of time to still work on goals and resolutions and reflecting on the past year, right?!  The year passed by way too fast, I don't believe that Kiggster is already 2 years old…well technically she is now 27 months old and Honey and I have hit 7 years in our marriage!  So I definitely wanted to take the time to reflect over 2012, our family, marriage, motherhood, spiritually, and blog-wise before creating new goals for 2013.  The great thing about having this blog is, it didn't let me "lose" my virtual 2012 goals and so I re-read them here to jog my memory about what I even wrote.  Yes, it's bad, I didn't really look at them after April last year and so I had no idea what I even had committed myself to anymore.  First before I go into my goals from past and future, I wanted to do a 2012 Kiggster recap. … [Read more...]

7 years ago on the 18th of December, I married my best friend and we set out on a journey into the adventurous but unpredictable world of marriage!  Looking back at our 7 years, sometimes it feels like just yesterday and sometimes it feels like we’ve been together forever, but I always feel like I’m still learning more about Honey each day.  We find out more about each other, our personalities, history, quirks, and silly tidbits every time we talk!  Since we just celebrated our 7 year anniversary, I thought it would also be a nice time to share our love story with you all, whether it was the beginning of it, the dating part, the engagement, or even the proposal!  Enjoy! In The Beginning: We first met each other in 2000 when I moved down to San Diego to go to college at UCSD and he had already graduated from UCSD.  However, he still had a lot of friends still in school there so he spent a lot of time with the college ministry at church. … [Read more...]