a weekly log of our everyday life
We spent this past weekend in Cindy’s hometown for an early birthday celebration for her mom!! We couldn’t really do much because most places are still closed due to COVID and the air quality is pretty bad from all the fires. On Friday night, we watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2: Sword of Destiny. Cindy’s […]
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The title of this week’s blog says it all. The biggest highlight of our week was Jake getting the OK to walk again!! When Jake came home from his follow-up appointment, he pretended to crutch around before he dramatically threw down his crutches and started walking. Cindy was so shocked! Originally, the surgeon had said […]
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The big highlight of this past week was Jake’s diploma arriving in the mail! He gets one after 2 years through his PhD program (as long as he takes this one specific course). It was a bit anti-climactic. He got an email some time last month saying he earned his Master’s degree. And then several […]
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Jake got a much needed haircut! (his second quarantine haircut!) We left such a mess last time, when Cindy cut his hair at home, that we decided it was just easier and less mess for Jake to go pay for a cut instead. He had to sit outdoors for his haircut! That was a different […]
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It’s Cindy’s last full week of summer break before starting Year 6 of her teaching career! Due to COVID-19, Year 6 will look immensely different from the other years. Even though she has a game plan for how she will approach Distance Teaching this time around, there’s still a lot of anxiety and stress because […]
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Not much happened this week. Since we were so social last week, we decided to stay home and go out as little as possible this week… just to be safe. So the big highlight of the week was… Jake got his stitches taken out!!! And he will be starting physical therapy soon! His recovery seems […]
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H A P P Y I N D E P E N D E N C E D A Y ! So much happened this week! Jake had his one week follow up appointment for his leg. He was taken out of a splint and put into a boot. He can’t put any weight on […]
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Highlights of the Week Cindy wrapped up Year 5 of teaching. It’s still so crazy to think she’s been teaching for 5 years. She feels like she just started not too long ago. She’s excited for Year 6 and hopeful that she’ll be able to see her students in person next year. Jake finished up […]
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Since things are finally opening up in Los Angeles, we decided it was time to officially celebrate Poppa Wang’s retirement!! He retired 2 months ago and we haven’t had the chance to really celebrate. We, along with Cindy’s sister and her sister’s boyfriend, threw a little surprise party for him on Saturday. We hung up […]
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Moving A few weeks ago, we shared about our struggle in deciding whether or not we should move out of our current apartment. We’ve had several issues with our current apartment and management company (nothing major) and with the rent prices dropping in LA, we thought this would be a good opportunity to move to […]
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