Social Study 101 - Family Tree

Counting down the days to TW, as we are spending the entire Thanksgiving week visiting our Asian family. Kids are extremely excited since they have learned and read quite a bit of it in the past year. It’s not their first time visiting TW but it’s going to be their first “memorable” time (I’ll say) as they are now older. Knowing that we are going to see SO many extended families (grandparents, great grand aunts, uncles, uncles, aunts, first cousins, second cousins...), I feel that I owe them a social study 101 lesson. What can be better than starting with a family tree! So let’s get the Cheng (my maternal) side started!

holiday seasons

It really doesn't get easier since T's pass. It especially hits me hard when any major holiday approaches. I was contemplating if we should even send out the family greeting card this year. At the end, I decided, show must go on and the world won't stop moving so the life has to go on...

<in the back of the holiday card this year>

What a year it's been!

A very challenging one with ups and downs, good surprises and unexpected losses. It's one of those years that you would look back and remember every single moment of and wish you could explain everything with karma but it would just be too simple.

We all know, really, this is part of life. The setback is for our comeback, and if doesn't kill us it only makes us stronger.

Vividly remembered on a gorgeous Sunday morning, Ninja was waiting for his hot cocoa in a coffee shop and he had an epiphanic moment:

N: I love my life.
S: Why?
N: Because I have the best people.

We love our lives. We have the best people. We are forever grateful to having you in our lives and being there for us, being our source of stability and part of our support network.

We wish you and your loved ones a beautiful holiday season and a great 2020 with lots of love, health and prosperity.

With love,

SFEA