How we're raising a bilingual child (the lazy way)

 Posted on February 6, 2022  |  8 minutes  |  Wendy K

I don’t know if I’m really qualified to teach people how to raise bilingual kids. I think I constantly fall into a slight panic of “oh gosh my kid is speaking so much English, I failed as a mother!!” mode. But, alas, I guess I can share our experience and let others know how tolerant kids are, and how even if you feel like you’re failing all the time, they still surprise you. [Read More]
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Switching (Tech) Jobs as a Mom

 Posted on January 17, 2022  |  6 minutes  |  Wendy K

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I wrote a blog post. It’s been a very eventful year last year (2021) - in both good and bad ways. Good thing is in the beginning of the year, I left my previous job after 6 years, switched to a different group with company (where different groups can feel like different companies), then I switched again at end of year. [Read More]

How being a mom makes me a better manager

 Posted on October 24, 2020  |  7 minutes  |  Wendy K

Despite of all the pandemic going around, this past year has been going very well for me at work. On the team front, I have: started my own team run a daily standup meeting and scrum process new hire onboarded very well and already became go-to person across teams built a reputation of an effective/efficient team team seems happy and productive influenced beyond my team and attracted talents to contribute to my team On the technical front, I have [Read More]
parenting  manager  management 

Rasing a Child During a Pandemic

 Posted on July 28, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  Wendy K

It’s been a difficult few months. Covid has hit the US hard, and things are getting worse and we keep hearing “it’s going to get worse before it gets better”, and that “better” part still hasn’t happened yet. Since the last time I posted, so much have changed in our lives, and it’s now in a weird state where we feel stable and content, but am also just living one day/week at a time. [Read More]
parenting  WFH  lockdown  coronavirus  covid 

Lockdown with a toddler: Week 2, 3

Preparing for a much longer battle...

 Posted on April 1, 2020  |  5 minutes  |  Wendy K

We finished week 2 and now are in week 3 of lockdown. I’m not going to lie, it’s been tough. But we’re grateful that we’re getting better in health, keeping our jobs with flexibility to WFH and moving meetings around. Last week was tough for me at work as we have all these OKR planning session and everyone seems to want numbers from me for planning purposes. On top of that I had to propose and defend a few suggestions to other teams, so that was extra tiring. [Read More]
WFH  lockdown  coronavirus 

Lockdown with a toddler: Day 3,4,5

Survived the first week!

 Posted on March 19, 2020  |  5 minutes  |  Wendy K

Phew! First week of working from home with a toddler is finished. Honestly when this started, I was anticipating 2 weeks, even though it could be longer. Now, with how the world looks, it definitely doesn’t feel like it’s only two weeks. We have to prepare for living like this for longer. On Wednesday I felt quite sick so I slept a lot while my husband took care of most of the childcare duty. [Read More]
WFH  lockdown  coronavirus 

Lockdown with a toddler: Day 2

 Posted on March 17, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  Wendy K

We both woke up having sore throat this morning. Fortunately, our son seems to be doing much better today. No fever. Just some crankiness. He took a nice 3 hour nap mid-day. For us, it feels like the productivity started to go down because we’re just tired. The world doesn’t seem to be much better - lots of depressing news. My learning/realization today: 1. Trust your coworkers to cover for you. [Read More]
WFH  lockdown  coronavirus 

Lockdown with a toddler: Day 1

We survived the first day!

 Posted on March 16, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  Wendy K

With the Coronavirus hitting the bay area, the local governments announced the lockdown today. Yesterday, I got a call from our daycare that they’ll be closing for two weeks. I honestly was totally expecting this, so I thanked her and said hopefully we’d see her in two weeks. I know it might take longer. Generally, I wouldn’t worry about this too much since there are two of us at home, handling one child. [Read More]
WFH  lockdown  coronavirus 

Benefits of being a Mom

Written as a mother of 1.5yo

 Posted on March 10, 2020  |  5 minutes  |  Wendy K

Today I learned that a friend of a friend likes my blog! It always makes me very happy to hear someone likes it. So I decided to write another post :) My baby is now a toddler! He’s walking, running, talking, interacting, understanding, and generally a real person. It’s so much more fun this way compared to when he was a newborn. It is quite tiring since he is so full of energy all the time, but I really like this stage! [Read More]
motherhood 

Childcare is an ongoing battle

 Posted on December 26, 2019  |  7 minutes  |  Wendy K

Some status update I haven’t been updating this blog for a while! Thing have been going well with life, but extremely busy. My new role at work is going well, while the baby has moved into a toddler phase. He’s walking, babbling (not quite talking in a language yet, but we’re not worried), and super fun to be with. After he turned 1, I started to feel more and more like a parent, like I’m raising a human being that can think, has a personality, has his wants and needs and free will. [Read More]
Childcare  working mom