Italian Born Chinese

When is Logan checking out of Hotel Mom?  I have absolutely no idea.  Good thing to know is that no-one can be pregnant forever.  He’s gotta make his entrance to this world sometime soon…  How soon?!  Don’t know.  The sooner the better for me, maybe.  The heat and humidity in Shanghai are getting more serious little by little everyday.  I feel like getting into the shower all the time coz I’m just always hot now.  I’ve never had such high body temperature ever in my life.  In fact, I’ve always been quite cold-blooded.  Ask John.  He always used to rub my unusually frozen feet and hands especially during winter.

All week last week I thought Logan was gonna come out.  The week and weekend passed by, and my parents even got back from America already from my brother’s graduation.  I thought Logan was waiting for his grannies and uncle to return to Shanghai.  But now, grannies are back, he’s still in there.  I suffered more intense contractions in the last 2 days, but Logan still seems to be enjoying his stay at Hotel Mom.  Only God can kick him out of there in due time.  ^_^

So, what happened to Uncle Bryte?  Uncle Bryte, on the night before he was supposed to board a plane coming to Shanghai, decided not to get on the plane because of a last-minute job offer.  All day yesterday John kept talking about waiting for him and waiting for him to have dinner together.  Funny that my hubby seemed that excited about seeing my brother.  Only around 9P.M. last night did we find out from my parents that he never got on the plane.  John was surprised again by how we (the Lin’s) can just change decisions like that so last minute.  I guess my family’s kind of weird that way.  It was like, “oh kids, next month we’re moving to South Africa,” or “oh, we were moving back to Taiwan but last week decided instead to move to Italy next month,” or “oh btw, we just got back to Taipei yesterday but have to call the shipping company to re-route our container to Shanghai coz we’re moving to Shanghai this Friday.”  I was never surprised when those decisions were made.  The Lin’s in my family all make decisions like that.  My brother is the worst coz sometimes we had no idea where in the world he was.  The closest we could guess during the days he worked in England (and supposedly lived in England) was that he had to be in Europe somewhere.  Anyway, I got derailed from the subject of this post, as always.  But, as you can see, my thoughts can’t stay in one place when I’m one of those Lin’s who can physically be anywhere jumping to anywhere any time.  It was really exciting for me last summer when I went to Moscow, came back to Shanghai and flew to Malaysia with John the next day, and then flew to Taiwan the next morning after Malaysia without knowing the schedules of the flights before returning to Shanghai again.  I called my mom the day we left Malaysia to buy a ticket for me to go to Taiwan.  Was so fun!  And soon after returning home from the 6-week holiday in those places, I unexpectedly went on the best journey of my life - pregnancy.  Thank God that we have Him and His protection no matter where on Earth we are.

I wonder if Logan’s a bit disappointed that Uncle Bryte won’t be here physically to welcome his birth, but he’s surely loved.  His big chest of drawers and room are filled with gifts from families and mommy & daddy’s friends.

Logan is such a blessing from our Father above.  We love him so very much, and really look forward to his birth every single hour now.  I simply can’t wait!  ^_^

Thanks for all the prayers!  I love prayers the most as gifts.