Hello readers! I knowwww it’s been a while! October turned out to be a surprise month of new work assignments, and got even busier with my solo trip to Japan - a 9 day trip away from my NY family. So here I am, about 1 month late in
Dear readers! Fall days are so beautiful in NYC - they are finally here and am smiling. I used to think Japan’s fall was the most beautiful, but I think now I’ve been proven wrong - NY’s fall days have been unexpectedly so calming, especially at the
Hello readers! The past 2 weeks have been filled with many highs and lows over here in my household 😳 Yes, the highs of realizing how adaptable kids are to new environments, and how quickly they learn - these are truly the joys of parenthood - but the lows of sleep
Hello September! How did it get here so fast? Well, just like that, my oldest is in public Pre-K and no longer in full time Japanese daycare. I will no longer receive photo updates and the detailed daily reports that I obsessed over for the past few years. My daughter
Ah the Paris Olympics are over, and as I think about the next Summer Olympics in 2028 (in LA!!), I realize how much older my kids will be by then. Truly, the days are long but the years are short. Another summer is gone and we are about to start
Hello The Big Ringo Readers! The process of writing this newsletter weekly has become sorta therapeutic and sorta fun for me - also serving as a reminder that a week goes by so quickly! I love receiving feedback. One of the feedback I received was to enable commenting - which
Hello to all The Big Ringo readers! I love receiving feedback and witnessing more people sign up. Thank you all for your lovely comments! These days... what’s keeping me up at night is not a sleepwalking toddler but the Olympics! As a former lover of sports (long distance running
Hi The Big Ringo readers! Happy mid-summer! I’m actually loving these summer days in NYC because we usually spend our summers in Japan, where it can get excruciatingly hot and humid - and crowded with tourists from all over the world (that’s a lot to say from someone
Welcome to the Big Ringo, your source for all things Family x Japan x New York! So… why The Big Ringo? I am Eiko, a mom of 2 living in Manhattan. I grew up in Nara, Japan and Los Angeles, and have called New York my home for the past