April

Wow, I haven't been updating the blog for a few weeks now! :) April seems to have been so busy, with birthday celebration for Mark's Gramma who turned 103 years old on April 10, another dear friend Marie Stone's birthday that same weekend--she turned 86 years old, the nice weather and the daily outing with the kids (Jun Jun got a little squirting pool for his birthday, so he's been trying it out on the sunny days). It feels so good to be able to go out and play in the sun. Feels like the winter has been so long and Spring finally showed up all of a sudden, and I didn't even miss it!

There's always so much to write about for each single day of our lives here, and sometimes I feel that unless I have a big chunk of time I can't write anything, or unless I have this or that in place I can't write. Hence I don't write at all, and every time when I see the old stories I go, "yikes, got to go update this. I just wish I have the time... "

I think the beauty of a blog is that it doesn't have to be perfect; it's just real time, real place and real me.  That's been stretching for me, to let the perfection go and to be comfortable with what I have that maybe imperfect (but in whose eyes), that it may not be an essay but just plain me talking. So, here I go, being thankful that at the end of a long day I still have the strength to sit here and do something I like, and not too tired yet to scale a mountain of the mind. 

Tomorrow is another day. Maybe I will go running again. Maybe Fei Fei will have more than one play date. Maybe I will get to go to the post office and mail off the package for my cousin's new baby in China. Maybe I will even make the steamed Chinese eggplants for supper again that Mark loves so much. Maybe I will hear more news about Andrew's surgery and be thankful that he and his family are alright. Maybe I will learn more about the 101 ways to stay healthy I just read from the Women's Health magazine, and be motivated to implement a few starting tomorrow. Maybe I will also go out and pat the new baby grass Mark put in that's sprouting out on our lawn (I am heeding his advice to go do something with my hands for the Earth regularly; it's allegedly good for my emotional and mental health :). Maybe, like Fei Fei (aka Carmella Cinderella) says, we will have many adventures...

Life is so full. Embrace it today :)