Katy’s Weblog
My mom was a strong person when she was young. She told us she was athletic, liked to swim, and enjoyed going out. She had a lot of friends in Hong Kong.
When she immigrated to the US, she raised us four kids in Pasadena without knowing the language here, and without the ability to drive.
A few books I read in the past couple of months that I have not recorded here:
Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card – Absolutely the last of the series I am going to read. I think I’ve read them all now.
Heaven by Randy Alcorn – A hefty book. Some parts were…
“Hey, what’s that?” My husband suddenly noticed the Pokemon writing decorations on our living room wall…ummm, they’ve been there for the last 5 days. And these are not little decorations. They are about one foot high, stretches about 5 feet across, tacked on the front wall immediately facing you when you enter the room. And he’s been going into that room everyday, several times a day, day in and day out, since those decorations has been up. And 5 days later he noticed! Amazing!
About a month ago, my 89-year-old aunt passed away. When I was in about 7th grade, she sewed me a cape, a Sherlock Holmes kind of cape, fully lined, with a zipper in the front, and slits for the hands. With the little bit of fabric left, she made a matching skirt. I kept that cape and cherish it today.
I found a box of letters that friends had written to me – when I was in college – 30 years ago!
It’s like finding a time capsule.
The letters reminded me of things I’ve forgotten about in my own life. I knew that I went to Japan and Hong Kong when I was in…
On the way back from our trip to Japan, I was pulled aside at airport security at the Narita airport.
This happened after I already passed the security system. But apparently they randomly pull people aside for additional check while we were walking down then tunnel into the airplane.
More about our recent trip to Japan:
4. Every morning we had a buffet breakfast at the hotel where we stayed, and each night we stayed in a different hotel. So we experienced a different buffet every morning, but the food offered were very similar. The first impression of every hotel is the large hall…
I don’t know how many more highlights I can write here, but here are a few more:
2. One of the evenings on the tour we stayed in a Japanese style inn, as our tour guide called it. It’s a modern building equipped with elevators and air conditioning, but the rooms were made to look like traditional Japanese rooms with tatami mats, no beds, and a tiny bathroom.
The last big vacation we took was in 2001 when we went to China and Hong Kong. We’ve been talking about going to Japan for the last 2 years. I really thank God that we were able to go this summer.
The best part of any vacation for me is the time spent with my…
Vacation Bible School is suppose to be for the kids. It’s suppose to help children to know God and to have fun.
But more than half of the fun and the learning at VBS is for the helpers.
We learn to work together, we learn to be kind and patient, we learn to put aside…