okinawa hai!

CONTRIBUTED BY JEN PRESTON It’s bikini season again.  Oh lordy, I haven’t truly celebrated bikini season since ’96 or so, but for those of you who still like to bare *almost* all…may the force be with you. I must say, the good weather comes to Okinawa even earlier than in my native Southern California, and [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY KIMBERLY MITCHELL Okinawa Hai reader, Lisa, has a question. Can anyone help her out? I have been in Okinawa for about 5 months now. My husband and I are looking to expand our family and had to do IVF (in-vitro fertilization) to conceive our son. Does anyone have any info on that option [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY LAN This question happened to come in on the same day that I took my little one for his first set of shots.  Kudos to the nurses at the Lester Immunization Clinic.  After days of agonizing over the pain that he would feel (can you tell I’m a bit phobic about vaccines?! , [...]

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Birth Announcement: Ellerie Anne from Mia and Ellerie on Vimeo. A monster-sized thanks to Kim for sharing the details of her journey to get the birth she wanted. Grab a tissue or two. It's hard to believe it's been 2 weeks since the birth! In some ways I feel like she's been part of our [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY DOWNTOWNJULIEBROWNA while back ago I woke up at 6 am to find my sister (who was visiting from the states) in full panic mode. Turns out that her 4-year-old son caught one of the many respiratory viruses that linger here in the Okinawan humidity. He had woken up at 3 am coughing, congested, [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY MEREDITH NOVARIO We recently received this e-mail. Let’s help a lady out, shall we? A couple of months ago my husband and I learned that we would be  moving to Okinawa in the fall.  There have been ups and downs through the process of finding out where to live, how to get there, [...]

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