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Life update~~~ Japan ~~~Jun 6, 2022

 おひさしぶりですね！

I’m sorry it took me so long to update my blog. So much has been happening this past year…actually more like these past few years. 

First let me just say, my daughter is going to be recieving her Japanese nationality soon. It could possibly take longer if the process is prolonged. However it will happen eventually. When she receives her nationality, we may move back to Japan and I'll be on a Long Term Residency visa.

My daughter and I just received our temp visa’s and we leave for Japan in a few weeks. 👩‍👧🇯🇵

But first let me rewind a bit..

 I’ve been doing a lot of self healing, self loving and self reflection these past few years. God has really kept me focused on my goals by doing random things (ie; my phone completely stopped working and I had to buy a new one and lost all my contacts, lost access to social media, people went missing, I was robbed..(but I’m sure that’s unrelated lol).

There’s a quote that says “ You can’t start the next chapter if you keep re-reading the last one.”  That quote fits so well in my life right now, my current season. I used to do things that didn’t serve my highest purpose over and over again and I was unhappy. I was living as a shell of myself but all that changed!

If people from my past met the current me, they wouldn’t recognize me; mentally, emotionally and perhaps spiritually. I’ve changed so much but it required a lot of prayer and me going within and facing a lot of demons. Now I just surround myself with God, and things I truly love and adore. Anything that makes me feel good, fanciful and lovely; I gravitate towards. Anything that puts a smile on my face or gives me peace. 

Speaking of peace, I really have been strongly considering moving to Japan because of the recent things that have been happening to me lately. As I mentioned earlier, I was robbed outside of a grocery store while I was with my daughter. Police got involved and $948 ( my next stop was the bank) was stolen from me along with my bag and everything in it including my passport. The trauma and fear I experienced that day was like nothing I felt before. Especially because my baby was with me and I felt so helpless. But I was so thankful because so many people heard me screaming and crying so they ran outside and helped me by calling the police and stayed with me and my baby for a very long time after the police arrived. My poor daughter was crying and I was so shaken that I couldn’t fully attend to her. I prayed and believed I would get my purse back with my passport since I needed it to go back to Japan, and later that night, one of the police officer’s that was at the scene called me and told me that they found my purse!

 Everything was inside minus the money but my passport, iPad Pro and phone was all found! I have to say, I’m very thankful for the help from the local community, the police and most importantly God! I had photos that weren’t backed up from when my daughter was just born! So thankful they found it but the situation was a big wake up call. 

 I was getting too comfortable here in America with my family. They’ve been helping me so much with my baby that I became like a tree- unable to move because of my comfort. So the robbing incident (and most recently a school shooting near where I live) was enough for me to realize that it would be much safer for me to move my daughter to Japan permanently or at least until she is old enough to move out on her own. 

Although I had made up my mind that I would move to Japan last year, I have to admit I’ve been dragging my feet a bit. I could’ve hired my lawyer while I was still pregnant but like I said, it was the comfort that slowed me down.. also 😷 the pandemic. 

Honestly, I really wanted to update this blog. I always felt so happy updating my blog so I would like to make it a regular thing again. Especially when I go back to Japan later this month. 

Time for bed, goodnight!

But first a photodump!

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