With the Japanese school year coming to an end and Swedish family coming to Japan to visit, our little family made a trip to Tokyo to meet them. But before seeing our relatives, we visited the world of Star Wars! As it happens, there was a Star Wars pop-up store in Ginza that I had […]
Our son has been practicing skipping rope a lot this year. He slowly got the hang of the basic idea and managed to swing the rope behind him and climb over in a slow fashion. Then suddenly one day he came home from kindergarten and said I can skip now. At first I was unsure
With a toddler in the house, time really flies. Walking to the bus stop in the morning, enjoying the spring blossom, I feel like the day two years ago when I wrote a post about magnolias, must have been just yesterday. I always look forward to this time of the year. Soft warm air, no
I have more and more come to feel that an important part of life is noticing and appreciating the small things. Like the hug from my wife in the morning. Or the smile from the driver of the car we let by. The beautiful magnolia tree that has just started to bloom. Or the joy
It was six months ago that I last wrote about our bedtime dino-storytelling, and it has continued since then, every night. The dino-cast has expanded slightly, but after New Year there has been a dramatic change in the direction this never-ending story is heading and I thought that was worth a few words. When I