Welcome to our archives. This is a list of all the posts we have ever written for this blog. They are sorted by category, then by date. If you are searching for something specific, try using the search feature on the right sidebar.
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Guest Posts
• What I Learned: 10 Life-Changing Lessons from my Teenage Years by Agnes Embile
• What I Learned: How to Get Along With Everyone by Laurie Rappeport
• What I Learned: About Winning a Baby’s Heart by Tiffany Chan
• What I Learned: About Defining Expectations in Marriage by Alicia Perez
• What I Learned: About Maintaining Long-Distance Friendships by Kristen Soo
• What I Learned: About Marriage from Rubbermaid Storage Boxes by Amelia Rana
• What I Learned: From My Summer Father by Paul Sohn
Marriage
• How My Husband Saved My Life
• Why Looking for a Low-Maintenance Wife is a Mistake
• 9 Ways to Cheer Up Your Wife
• How to Know You’ve Found the Right Person to Marry
• How to Avoid Fighting with Your Spouse
• 10 Fun Date Night Ideas
• Thoughts as a Depressed Husband (How My Wife Helped Me Face Depression)
• Why I Changed My Last Name
• The Ups and Downs of Long-Distance Dating
• Our Unfortunately Lame Anniversary
• Stop Looking for a “Soul Mate”
• What 75 Years of Marriage Looks Like
• A Warning to Single Men about Marriage and Parenting
• How to Find a Mature Man
• 8 Essentials to do Before Your First Anniversary
• Why I Refused a Diamond Ring
• My Introvert Life: In Marriage
• When My Wife is Mad at me and I Don’t Know Why
• Why I Did a 3-Month Performance Review for my Wife
• 12 Ideas for Planning a Memorable and Enjoyable Wedding
• How to Fight Fairly with Your Spouse (or anyone else)
• So you’re annoyed at your spouse. It’s your fault, not theirs.
• The Gospel and Marriage
• Stop trying to Cheer Up your Wife
• How to get married (my 5-step plan in finding a wife)
• Finding My Voice: Deciding to marry Tim [My thoughts on Marriage]
• Finding My Voice: Giving love a chance [My thoughts on Dating]
• A date of significance
• How to trap a husband
• How I started Dating (a new Season of Life)
Parenting
• My Baby is Eye Candy for Old Ladies
• What No Ones Tells Your about how Motherhood Changes Your Body
• 9 Signs Your Child May Have Trouble Seeing
• My Daughter Hates Santa Claus
• Ducks have Invaded our House
• Happy First Birthday, Alena!
• What I Learned: About Winning a Baby’s Heart
• Dear Baby, Please Don’t Walk Yet
• I Dare You to Put Your Camera Down
• Happy 11 Months, Alena!
• A Day in the Life of a Stay-at-Home Dad
• Dear Brand New Mom
• Top 10 Baby Halloween Costumes
• Happy 10 Months, Alena!
• Introducing our Baby to Music
• The day I felt like a Terrible Father
• Happy 9 Months, Alena!
• My Baby is Cuter than Yours
• Dear Hypothetically Gay Child
• My Baby’s First Word
• Happy 8 Months, Allie!
• Allie’s First Duet with Daddy
• What my Baby is Teaching me about Prayer
• Happy Nappy Diaper Service, Review After 7 Months
• Happy 7 Months, Alena!
• The Best Thing about the In-Laws Visiting
• Happy First Father’s Day, Tim!
• We brought the Wrong Baby on Vacation
• Happy 6 Months, Alena!
• Our attempt to get our Baby to Love Veggies
• How Buying a Zoo can bring a Family Together
• Laughter brings Joy: Happy Mother’s Day
• How We Trained our Baby to Sleep through the Night
• My Introvert Life: The Postpartum Weeks
• Happy 5 Months, Alena!
• When did your baby start sleeping through the night?
• Happy Star Wars Day! [Allie the mini Jedi]
• How do you get rid of Baby Boogers?
• Facebook Q&A about Parenting
• Cloth vs Disposable Diapers
• The Ironies of Babydom
• 8 Smart Ideas to Prepare for a Baby
• Happy 4 Months, Alena!
• Allie chooses Contest Winners!
• Invitation to be Brave
• The Story of My Milk: How I Stumbled into Feeding a Hundred Babies
• The Name-That-Expression Contest
• How to Have a Baby Without Losing Your Faith
• Oh how a baby grows
• Happy 3 Months Alena!
• 7 Simple Ways to Brighten a New Mom’s Day
• Lessons of a New Mom: Love is a Discipline
• Allie’s Captive Audience
• Happy 2 Months, Alena!
• Our Cloth Diaper Service (Happy Nappy review after 2 months)
• Hosting our children
• [ fifty days of alena ]
• A great way to help new parents
• Happy Chinese New Year!
• 6 Surprises I Encountered as a New Mom
• Allie’s first playdates
• Baby Analytics – How much does a newborn eat, pee, poop, and sleep?
• Little Milestones
• Apparently, it takes a while to sink in
• Allie the 1-month old Canucks Fan
• Alena’s Birth Story
• 10 Things I Learned the Hard Way Postpartum
• Reflections on having a new-born at Christmas
• Two Weeks Old
• Celebrating One Week!
• Introducing our Daughter
• Learning to Wait Well
• The Waiting Game
• Our choice to go with Happy Nappy cloth diaper service in Vancouver
• My Dear Firstborn
• The Baby Pool [when will baby Chan arrive?]
• 150 Lbs and Waiting
• Free Baby Resources
• Full-term!
• Dare I say this?
• Prenatal classes: Done!
• It’s coming together
• Go ahead, grow me up
• Mad and ruthless
• Brain jam
• Celebrating third trimester with “the drink”
• How to trap a husband
• Should we post our kids’ photos online?
Life
• My Birthday Tradition (A Gift for my Mother)
• Our Word for 2013: Courage
• 2012 Year in Review
• Merry Christmas
• Remember Whose You Are (Olive’s Latest Painting)
• My Social Media Ego
• Our Christmas Playlist (Top 16 Songs)
• Why I Scrapped My To-Do List
• How The Hunger Games Changed my Remembrance Day
• In Memory of Grandpa Chan
• Please Celebrate Your Birthday
• Grateful for the Small Surprises [Celebrating Thanksgiving]
• How to Minimize Road Rage (and other forms of Anger)
• Raging Against My Limits
• When Grace Shows Up In the Impossible: The Story of Our House
• The Pros and Cons of Being an Only Child
• Who’s a better writer? Tim or Olive?
• My Love-Hate Relationship with Family Vacations
• When a Friend Passes away [A tribute to Kevin Huang]
• Taking a Sabbatical to Focus your Career and Calling
• Three Words I Deleted from my Vocabulary
• You are Invited to Write for our Blog
• 10 Years Blogging and Counting
• Door Art in your Home
• Goodbye home (Change is Bittersweet)
• My 7-minute talk on Social Enterprise (in my Kermit the frog voice)
• My Introvert Life: As a Single
• My Introvert Life
• When God Feels Like a Meany
• Dear Extroverts (An Honest Letter from an Introvert)
• Confessions of a Former Ballerina: How Ballet Shaped and Scarred Me
• 6 Games to make your Meetings Engaging and Effective (a book review of Gamestorming)
• Top 10 Blog Posts in Winter 2012
• Dear Recurring Dream, what do you mean?
• Invitation to be Brave
• You Hereby Have Permission to Be Yourself
• I love this mug made by JustPotters
• 6 Reasons why You should become a Mentor
• The 7 Best Pranks I’ve Seen
• 10 Reasons Jeremy Lin’s Story is so Appealing
• Finding My Voice: Travel While Single
• Defining Decision #3: Decide the one thing I will die for [how to find passion in life]
• How I use Twitter to get 30 minutes of Education every Day
• 31 reasons I’m proud of my family [written on my 31st birthday]
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life [book review]
• 10 Themes of the Year [Tim’s reflections on 2011]
• Tim and Olive’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2011
• Defining Decision #2: Learn my boss’ job [how to spend my time at work]
• Defining Decision #1: Embrace my Depression [realizing the gifts that depression brings] – Part 2
• Finding My Voice: Love Myself As My Neighbour
• Defining Decision #1: Embrace my Depression [realizing the gifts that depression brings] – Part 1
• Defining Decisions – 20 Life-shaping Choices I made in my 20s
• Finding My Voice: Choosing Love Over Fear
• Finding A Mentor
• Start Something that Matters – the TOMS story
• Finding my Calling in Life
• Finding My Voice: a retrospect of defining decisions of my twenties
• Gone in 60 seconds (or less)
• My Ideal Workplace (5 things I look for in a job)
Published Articles
• You’re Looking for the Wrong Person to Marry [Converge Magazine]
Guest Posts for other Blogs
• Befriending My Depression [The Good Men Project] • The Ups and Downs of Long-Distance Dating [Converge Magazine] • 5 Practical Tips on Learning to Cook [Hello VanCity] • These Eyes of Mine: A Fresh Perspective [She Loves Magazine] • A Dad Moment [Dad’s Round Table] • Top 10 Cutest Baby Halloween Costumes [Hello VanCity] • My Love-Hate Relationship with Family Vacations [Converge Magazine] • 8 Essentials to do before your First Anniversary [Converge Magazine] • Taking a Sabbatical to Focus your Career and Calling [Salt + Light] • Why I Did a 3-Month Performance Review for my Wife [Converge Magazine] • Lessons of a New Mom: Love is a Discipline [My Journey Into Motherhood]