ooh ooh, someone take bootleg pics of eugene and esther’s wedding tomorrow.  how SAD am i that we can’t go?!  and to dae-son’s wedding next week.  gah.  i’m lonelies over here!!!

i’ve decided to *try* and commit to reading at least 20 minutes per day in order to read more of the many great books i keep intending to read and never get around to.  only thing with that is that i also tend to keep on reading long past the 20 minutes once i get into something good.  which then means other duties are left undone.  ahhh, my forever struggle to be disciplined! anyway, i recently picked up noel piper’s ‘treasuring God in our traditions’.  so so so good!!!  there’s even recipes in there!  if you haven’t read it, i’d strongly encourage you to pick it up- it’s all about how…

our little guy is sick.    he woke up yesterday morning feverish and hot to the touch.  eek!  tried to give him some baby tylenol which he promptly threw up along with the little breakfast i managed to get in him.  ugh, it’s a PAIN trying to get a onesie with throw-up on it over the head of a screaming tot.  most of it somehow ends up on me.  i ended up smelling like throw-up for the rest of the day as it happened two more times.    mikey’s fever steadily grew worse and settled around 103F.   poor little guy spent most of the day lying on his bear. …

we tend to be pretty ghetto about mother’s/father’s day in the tsai house.  no cards, no gifts, nothing too out of the ordinary.  nothin’ except a cheery “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!” or “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!” first thing in the morning when we wake up.  and since mikey doesn’t speak yet, the one holding him does the cheery yelling while mikey looks at us like we’ve lost our marbles.  he often looks at us like that.  wonder why. so sunday, we did the usual stuff but had a great time anyway!  went to church, where i have to say, piper gave the BEST father’s day message i’ve ever heard!  it was a…

as we sat down to dinner tonight, the first drops of rain began to fall.  we continued eating, watching the sky get darker and darker and the raindrops get bigger and bigger.  then the lightning flashed and the thunder rumbled.  a few minutes more and marble-sized hail was falling!  we still continued eating.  hey, it’s been four years that we’ve been here.  year one, we would have been panicking and wondering where to go for cover.  dinner was almost done when we heard loud sirens going off outside.  hmm.  phil suggested turning on the tv to see if there were any alerts. tv weatherman:  if you live in the roseville…