My husband and I have moved every 2 to 3 years for the last 17 years. We have moved from Japan where we got married to Austin, Texas in the U.S. My husband is from Texas. After spending 2 a… Read more
How I Lost Pregnancy Weight 3 Times
How I got my pre-pregnancy figure back after 3 children was a question I was once asked by one of my readers a while back. I was very flattered. By any means I do not sell the idea of losin… Read more
How To Stay Happy Overseas ☆ 10 Tips
Living overseas is full of amazing adventures and excitement, but it is not all rosy all the time. The challenges could come from tough conditions of life in a host country, inconve… Read more
Snap Shots ☆ Summer 2013
After we put a closure to our wonderful 3 years in Jakarta, my family and I flew to Tokyo. I stayed there with my 3 kids for 3 weeks at my parents’ place. During those 3 weeks, I har… Read more
Lunch Set Menu ☆ KOI Mahakam
＊日本語は下にあります。
I attended my first farewell get together last week with my Japanese friends. I have roughly a month left till our departure and it already started. Eight Japanese fr… Read more
Inspirations For Blogging ☆ What Keeps Me Going
If I am asked what inspires me to blog, I would probably say my children. Seeing little steps my children take in their development such as my son chewing on his own toes is always fasc… Read more
My Muse ☆ Expat Life & Blogging About My Finds
Photo Above Taken at KOI Kemang
Do you want to know why I have a “Friday Finds” column? For those who don’t know, I am Japanese living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bein… Read more
6 Months
My son turned 6 months old. After taking these photos, he had a huge blow up in his diaper and had to be changed. Life with a baby… Poop and spilling.
Then at 3:00 pm he had a 6-mont… Read more
50 mm lens
There are times I cannot wait till my youngest, the third child, who is 5.5 months right now, starts kindergarten. Then other times, I wish my kids don’t grow up so fast. I want … Read more
Monday Mode ☆ JCrew Giraffe T-Shirt ☆ First Day Of School
J.Crew giraffe T-shirt and J.Crew shorts are the outfit my daughter picked out for the first day of school. I gave her a little help, but ultimately she made the decision and I was ple… Read more
Kids ☆ Seven, Four & Four Months
We spent our first summer vacation with 3 kids in 2012. My three kids were seven years old, four years old and four months old. We are having many “first time” experienc… Read more
Silly Girl
My kids like to act silly. My second daughter is naturally funny, but she’s also very shy and would not show her funny side to others other than family members. Here are some sn… Read more
Flying Daughter
It was the last day of school. Bunch of school friends got together for a pool play date. Some people are leaving Jakarta for good to move onto their next destinations. I brought my ca… Read more
Monday Mode ☆ Purple Tutu
I found these photos of my middle child taken in April, 2011 in my iPhoto library and realized that I never used them for my Monday Mode last year. It’s been a year since these ph… Read more
Wednesday Wall2Wall ☆ Black & White Sip N’ See
Sip N’ See is a southern tradition in the U.S. where friends gather to meet a baby. My talented, stylish friend, Ana of Stumble Abroad, offered to host a gathering for me and my … Read more
Baby & His Heavy Head
This is a scene from this morning. My son is 2 and a half months old. Sitting up is not so easy for him. Yet.
今朝の一場面。２ヶ月半の息子。彼にとって、一人で座るのは難しい様子。… Read more
Baby Boy At Two Months
Our baby #3 became 2 months old. I’m delirious. Is it because I’m older or because my son is more demanding than my other two? I don’t know. The newborn phase is cu… Read more
Temporarily Living in Singapore
I used to be good about blogging and posted everyday for a while. After I got pregnant, little by little the frequency of my posting during a week became fewer and fewer. When my morni… Read more
Pregnant Belly At 28 Weeks
Attending Wedding Ceremony With My Almost 4-Year-Old
This photo above is the beginning of my challenge with my 4-year-old at my husband’s coworker’s wedding ceremony. The ceremony has already proceeded.
My older one w… Read more
Vietopia Vietnamese Restaurant & Pregnancy at 31 Weeks
A while back I took my older daughter to Vietopia, a Vietnamese restaurant, for lunch on her day off to have Pho. It is a pretty Vietnamese Cafe off of Senopati in Jakarta. I craved Pho … Read more
Wednesday Wall2Wall ☆ Tea Party Birthday Celebration
Our Updates and News
If you have been around my blog for a while, you must be thinking, what’s up with that Kaho…? She’s gotten lazy or what? I used to religiously update my blog posts … Read more
Wednesday Wall2Wall ☆ KOI Kemang & Livingetc Indonesia October 2011
I had an honor to collaborate with Livingetc Indonesia about a month ago as a guest ‘stylist’ during a photo shoot for one section “decorating etc”. It t… Read more
Guest Post at Notabilia
I was invited to do a guest post for a column “My Asia” on a blog Notabilia, a blogger from New York living in Singapore who writes about literature, art, independent de… Read more