Celebrating Daddy

On Monday, Daddy turned the big 40! We had fun celebrating him on Sunday and Monday. Sunday night we hosted our pastor and his wife for a chili dinner and cheesecake dessert, one of daddy's favorite desserts. The kids sang very loud for him and helped him blow out the candles (not 40 of them, by the way, just 6 candles at random). We always enjoy the company of our pastor and his wife so it was a nice quiet dinner to help celebrate daddy. On his actual birthday, Monday, he took a half day off work and we took the kids ice skating at Midtown in Roppongi. This has become somewhat of a tradition for us, to ice skate at this particular park each year, and the husband and I wondered together if we would be doing the same thing next year at this time. The K Man was a bit more scared than he was last year when we took him, but after a bit he felt more comfortable. Miss M loves ice skating. She uses the skates with a double blade so she can go by herself, but we would like to have her try the single blade skate. Maybe she can go on a date with daddy so he does not have to be holding the K Man and Miss M when she is on the single blade. We followed it up with the regular post ice skating fun at Dean and Deluca for some fancy hot cocoa and headed home. I made the husband another favorite, chicken parmesan with sauteed zuchini and rice, naturally, and we enjoyed leftover cheesecake for dessert. We have been saying that this year would be a big year for us in terms of making decisions about our future and where we want to settle a bit. We have been in Tokyo now five years, and each year we keep wondering do we stay or do we go back to the US. With the husband turning 40, having a third baby, and the kids getting a bit older, we feel like it is time to settle somewhere. We have no idea where that will be, but we are excited at what God has in store for us and we eagerly approach his throne of grace for wisdom and discernment. Celebrating daddy was a lot of fun this year, and I could not be more blessed to share this life on earth with him. I am more in love with him now than I was nine years ago when we were first married, and I love watching God change him and grow him into a faithful leader and follower of Christ. Here is to many more birthday celebrations together...