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Anna’s all growing up… these past two days, she lost her first two teeth! 
It was a painful (and loud) ordeal… but we are proud of her for dealing with it. She lost the 2nd one while eating strawberries. 
And then we went to local Ben & Jerry’s to celebrate!! It was good times…
I’ve been afraid of many things before… and weirdly enough, watching this movie is in that same place. Wondering why? It’s because I can see myself in that same place. Losing everything, having nothing going right, and having to sacrifice just about anything so that he could provide. For his son.
I cried practically from the get go of the movie. I felt and saw every bit of this man’s struggles and heart tearing life… The last 5 minutes of the movie… was the best tear jerker in my life. Fatherhood is something no man should ever think lowly of… he sure didn’t.
I can only pray that I can be that committed to my family and our well being. I don’t own a home. Life may be hard but I have a family to be thankful for… roof over our heads, food to eat. Watch this movie … to understand the heart of a father.
Ah the joys of raising kids… I was going to let them watch bit of TV (JJ loves Thomas the Tank Engine) and then off to the library for Thursday’s Family Time. Then all of a sudden, Anna rushes to me crying! Hard!
She was bleeding in her mouth… turns out Anna was biting on a blanket, and JJ pulled on it. Hard! Her teeth were loose… Yikes. After much panicking, I called Soojin and then Sanghee for advice. Both told me to ice her teeth area to rid the pain.
After some time, bleeding stopped and spoke with her dentist who told me what I needed to hear. Don’t bother taking her to ER ’cause all we will do is wait and they won’t do anything. She told me to just ice it, stop the bleeding, and feed her liquids and soft foods only.
Ah the excitement of raising children… one bites and one pulls. 
… I hated alcohol with passion.
I know this kid. I spoke with him recently to learn that he and his mom are moving out. Why? His father is a drunk… a violent one at that. 
His father would threaten him and the family. If the law was up to me, I’d allow imprisonment solely based upon physical threat upon an immediate family member. 
Why must men do this??
The sad part is that his dad is not the first that I know of. Another sister in Christ suffers heavily from such a violent father. In fact, she doesn’t know the whereabouts of her mom because her mom ran away for her own safety, and because she was so scared for her own life, she didn’t let any of her children know where she disappeared to…
Why must we do such a thing to our own family. Alcohol itself isn’t evil. However, when you mix it with men, it becomes way too dangerous. Alcohol has to be one of the worst family breakers ever. I am ashamed to be a man because of such family violence that we cause. I seldom touch alcohol and it will become even less frequent as I hear more of such tragedies…
Please pray for the safety of the kid and his mom… and all the children and the spouses of abused out there. I’m sure God is more than sad to see this kind of brokenness. And men, please remember what addiction can do to your loved ones…
With the “colder” weather around, I decided to make hot chocolate for the kids for snack What is interesting is afterwards. Evidently, JJ decided to clean up after himself and wiped the spilled hot choco that was on the placemat. I somewhat chuckled at seeing his rather lame effort at the clean up.
Then it reminded me of how God would look at my way(s) of cleaning up my own mess in life, only to come after my attempts and He does His own clean up. I wonder if He chuckles as well seeing at His son’s lame attempt at cleaning up. 
It also reminded me that I shouldn’t mock anybody else’s mistakes, but rather keep myself in check. It’s rather funny how God can re-teach lessons of life in so many ways.
I am humbled… yet again.
Though I b*tch and complain about being underpaid and under-appreciated at work, there are some good perks that I cannot ignore or forget. First is the health benefits. That alone has saved us a load of money… just having our kids saved us easily $40K!
But the 2nd (and bigger) perk is the flexibility in the work schedule. As most of you know by now, Soojin’s ankle has made me take more time out of work to do things that are necessary. For example, today’s schedule went like this…
7:45 Take Anna to school
8:15 Come back home
8:45 Take Soojin and JJ to UBC for mothers’ Bible study
9:15 Get into work
10:15 Leave for my doctor’s appointment
11:45 Come back to work
2:45 Leave to pick up Anna from school
3:30 Stop by court to pickup application for Soojin’s temporary disabled parking permit
3:45 Drop off my prescription
4:15 Back at work
5:45 Leave for home
Tomorrow, I have to pick up JJ from pre-school at noon, drop him off at home, come back to work, and go pick up Anna again at 3 pm. These kind of flexibility work schedule could not be possible if I worked at smaller companies or bigger responsibilities with more pay. I thanked God today for my job. 
I don’t want to leave transporting my precious kids to someone I hardly know!
So we went into see Dr. Holt for the MRI follow up… the good news is that there’s no surgery required though some of the ligaments are torn. The key tendon wasn’t torn so it’s good.
The bad news is that it will take roughly couple of months to heal. Thanks for the prayers.