The Slower Days

Snapshots of life, motherhood and the little things

  • Galentine’s day – Cake Decoration event at Fleur Studio

    Valentineโ€™s Day is just around the corner.I canโ€™t believe January flew by so quickly โ€” how is it already mid-February? ์ด์ œ ๊ณง ๋ฐœ๋ Œํƒ€์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋„ค์š”.์„ธ์ƒ์—, 1์›”์ด ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋‚˜ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒŒ์จ 2์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ์ด๋ผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•Š์•„์š”. Last Friday, I attended a Galentineโ€™s Day cake decorating event at Fleur Studio.For those who donโ€™t know, Galentineโ€™s Day (Girl + Valentineโ€™s Day)โ€ฆ

    I didn’t post on Instagram for a year. and these are what I learned.

    I didnโ€™t post on Instagram for a year.It wasnโ€™t a dramatic decision. I didnโ€™t announce a break or plan it carefully.At some point, I simply stopped. Life felt full enough without documenting it.I wanted to spend my energy living, not showing. Looking back, that year wasnโ€™t an absence.It was a return โ€” back to myself.โ€ฆ

    Winter Holiday in Hawaii, Oahu.

    Back to Blogging, After a While. Itโ€™s been a while since I last wrote here.More than a month, actually. I want to share our trip to Hawaii in December! Escaping the cold, gray days of Seattle, we flewโ€”almost impulsivelyโ€”to sunny Hawaii.This end-of-year family trip came with no strict plans, no packed itinerary.Just one simple intention:โ€ฆ

    Valentineโ€™s Day is just around the corner.
    I canโ€™t believe January flew by so quickly โ€” how is it already mid-February?

    ์ด์ œ ๊ณง ๋ฐœ๋ Œํƒ€์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋„ค์š”.
    ์„ธ์ƒ์—, 1์›”์ด ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋‚˜ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒŒ์จ 2์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ์ด๋ผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•Š์•„์š”.

    Last Friday, I attended a Galentineโ€™s Day cake decorating event at Fleur Studio.
    For those who donโ€™t know, Galentineโ€™s Day (Girl + Valentineโ€™s Day) is all about celebrating with your girlfriends.

    ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ, Fleur Studio์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ Galentineโ€™s Day ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์–ด์š”.
    Galentineโ€™s Day๋Š” Girl + Valentineโ€™s Day์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์–ด๋กœ, ์—ฌ์ž ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐœ๋ Œํƒ€์ธ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    Fleur Studio

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    A friend invited me, and I couldnโ€™t say no. I absolutely love girly, crafty activities like this. Maybe itโ€™s the designer in me, but anything hands-on and creative makes me so happy.

    ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ด์ค˜์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์†Œ๋…€๊ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์•กํ‹ฐ๋น„ํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ ์ž‘์—…๋„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ์—†์ด ๋‹ค๋…€์™”๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    We also coordinated our outfits a little. The dress code was white tops and jeans, so I chose a girly lace-detail top from Free People โ€” the delicate lace made it feel extra cute. For outerwear, I paired it with a suede blazer from Oak + Fort, and wore wide straight-leg jeans from Mango.
    Since it was a bit chilly, I layered a Sandro cardigan underneath for warmth. I loved my OOTD that day, so of course I took tons of photos. It felt like the perfect outfit for such a girly, fun event.

    ๋‘˜์ด ๋“œ๋ ˆ์Šค์ฝ”๋“œ๋„ ์‚ด์ง ๋งž์ท„์–ด์š”.
    ํ™”์ดํŠธ ํƒ‘์— ์ฒญ๋ฐ”์ง€๋กœ ์ž…์ž๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ, ์ €๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์˜ Free People ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ ํƒ‘์„ ์„ ํƒํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ์€๊ทผํžˆ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ผ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

    ์•„์šฐํ„ฐ๋Š” Oak + Fort ์Šค์›จ์ด๋“œ ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์ด์ €๋ฅผ ๋งค์น˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•˜์˜๋Š” Mango์—์„œ ์‚ฐ ์™€์ด๋“œ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ ๋ ˆ๊ทธ ์ง„์„ ์ž…์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์Œ€์Œ€ํ•ด์„œ Sandro ๊ฐ€๋””๊ฑด์„ ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋“œํ•ด ๋ณด์˜จ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฑ™๊ฒผ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋‚  OOTD๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์™ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„๋„ ์ž”๋œฉ ์ฐ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ์†Œ๋…€ ๊ฐ์„ฑ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์— ๋”ฑ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฃฉ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ฌ๊นŒ์š”.

    We arrived after dinner, and the place was already packed. There was a DJ, and the whole studio had such a fun, party-like atmosphere.
    We purchased a cake and decorating kit from one of the vendors for $25, then walked around to check out the other booths. The keychain-making booth was especially popular.

    ์ €๋…์„ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฏธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”. ๋””์ œ์ด๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด์š”.
    ์ผ€์ดํฌ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฒค๋”์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์ผ€์ดํฌ์™€ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์„ธํŠธ๋ฅผ $25์— ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค๋„ ์ž ๊น ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ํ‚ค์ฒด์ธ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ถ€์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

    Unfortunately, there werenโ€™t many tables available inside the studio, so decorating there wasnโ€™t really an option. Instead, we brought our cakes home and decided to decorate them in a more relaxed setting.

    ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค ์•ˆ์— ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์ด ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ ๋ณด์˜€์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€, ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    All set and ready to decorate โ€” how cute is this setup?

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ ์™„๋ฃŒ! ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”?

    Sipping wine, chatting, and decorating cakes with a friendโ€ฆ time flew by without us even noticing. And here are our final creations!

    ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์™€์ธ ํ•œ ์ž” ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜๋‹ค ๋–จ๋ฉฐ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๊พธ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™„์„ฑ์ž‘!

    Weโ€™re both boy moms, but we definitely have very girly tastes, so we truly enjoy activities like this. Every now and then, itโ€™s nice to do something just for ourselves.

    ์ €ํฌ ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ๋ณด์ด๋ง˜์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์€ ์—„์ฒญ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌํ•œ ํŽธ์ด๋ผ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์•กํ‹ฐ๋น„ํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. ๊ฐ€๋” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์„œ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋„ ํ’€๊ณ , ์†Œ๋…€ ๊ฐ์„ฑ๋„ ์ถฉ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ ์š”.

    Moms deserve moments like this too โ€” to unwind, laugh, and feel a little playful again.

    It was such a lovely day.

    ์—„๋งˆ๋“ค๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ž–์•„์š”.
    ์ฐธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์› ๋˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Goodbye 2025, and Hello 2026!

    Somehow 2025 is already coming to a close.Time moved so fast this year that I honestly donโ€™t know where it all went.But as I look back, I wanted to take a moment to deeply thank myself for everything Iโ€™ve carried, survived, and created. 2025๋…„๋„ ์–ด๋А๋ง ๋์ž๋ฝ์ด์—์š”.์ •๋งโ€ฆ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋„ ๋˜๋‚˜ ์‹ถ์„ ๋งŒํผ ํ›… ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฒ„๋ฆฐโ€ฆ

    My Very Pink Christmas party

    Itโ€™s finally my favorite season of the year โ€” Christmas!This year, Iโ€™ve been attending so many Christmas parties that I havenโ€™t been able to blog as much as I wanted. Today, Iโ€™m excited to share a little story from our pink-themed Christmas party, which we hosted for Leoโ€™s daycare friends a couple of weekends ago.โ€ฆ

    Visiting Seattle Aquarium with family

    Last weekend, we went and visited Seattle Aquarium. We were all excited for the new renovated aquarium. It was a such a fun family outing. ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ๋ง, ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€(Seattle Aquarium)์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์–ด์š”.๋ฆฌ๋…ธ๋ฒ ์ด์…˜๋œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€์ด ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์ •๋ง ์„ค๋ ˆ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฃผ๋ง ๋‚˜๋“ค์ด์˜€์–ด์š”. Seattle Aquarium https://share.google/xvkx6Fvjzj10CyEJ7 Tickets:Adult ticket is $50, and kidsโ€ฆ

    I didnโ€™t post on Instagram for a year.
    It wasnโ€™t a dramatic decision. I didnโ€™t announce a break or plan it carefully.
    At some point, I simply stopped.

    Life felt full enough without documenting it.
    I wanted to spend my energy living, not showing.

    Looking back, that year wasnโ€™t an absence.
    It was a return โ€” back to myself.

    ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์— ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด 1๋…„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋˜ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋‹ค.
    ๋ฐ”์˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค
    ์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋งค์ผ ๋งค์ผ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์— ๋งŽ์ด ์ง€์ณ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ์˜€๋‹ค.

    ๋Œ์ด์ผœ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ 1๋…„์€, ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ
    ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    1. I learned how to stay present

    There were moments I didnโ€™t photograph.
    Moments that didnโ€™t need to be shared to be meaningful.

    Eye contact with my child.
    Soft afternoon light filling the room.
    Ordinary days that passed quietly.

    ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์•„์ด์™€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์›ƒ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„,
    ์ง‘ ์•ˆ์— ํ–‡๋น›์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์˜คํ›„,
    ์•„๋ฌด ์ผ ์—†์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ.

    ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ทธ๋•Œ์˜ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    2. I became more comfortable with who I am

    I used to ask myself often, Is this me?
    Now, the question feels clearer.

    I know what I enjoy.
    I know the rhythm I want my life to have.

    When comparison fades, self-acceptance grows.

    ์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” โ€˜์ด๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋‹ต๋‚˜?โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์ž์ฃผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค.
    ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€์ง€
    ์˜ˆ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

    ๋‚จ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋‹ˆ
    ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ํ•„์š”๋„ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    3. I let go of the need for validation

    Likes, comments, and engagement donโ€™t define who I am.
    Stepping away helped me understand that.

    Not needing constant confirmation from others
    was more freeing than I expected.

    ์ข‹์•„์š”, ๋ฐ˜์‘, ๊ณต๊ฐ.
    ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ
    ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.

    ํ™•์ธ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ์€
    ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํฐ ์ž์œ ์˜€๋‹ค.

    4. Being a working mom is hard โ€” and thatโ€™s okay

    Balancing work and motherhood takes more than productivity.
    It takes emotional and physical energy that often goes unseen.

    I used to feel like I was failing because I couldnโ€™t do everything perfectly.
    Now I know better.

    Perfection isnโ€™t the goal.
    Presence is.

    Learning to let go has been an act of self-respect.

    ์ผ๊ณผ ์œก์•„๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ํ•ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์‚ถ์€
    ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ฒด๋ ฅ๋„, ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ด๋‹ค.

    ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ ค๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ
    ๋Š˜ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์™„๋ฒฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ.

    ๋†“์•„๋„ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๋Š” ์—ฐ์Šต์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

    5. I chose to surround myself with people who inspire me

    I became more intentional about the people I keep close.

    Those I can learn from.
    Those I admire not just for what theyโ€™ve achieved,
    but for how they live.

    Inspiration quietly raises your standards โ€” and your life.

    ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋ชจ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ณด๋‹ค
    ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์กด๊ฒฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

    ์ž๊ทน์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค,
    ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค.
    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์กด์žฌ๋“ค์€ ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ ค์ค€๋‹ค.

    6. Staying open to learning changes everything

    The moment you think you know enough
    is the moment growth slows.

    Remaining open โ€” curious, humble, willing โ€”
    has introduced me to new ideas, new directions, and new possibilities.

    ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์ˆ˜๋ก
    โ€˜์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‹ค ์•ˆ๋‹คโ€™๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋А๋‚€๋‹ค.

    ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉด
    ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ,
    ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ๋„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค.

    Where I am now
    Iโ€™m back on Instagram, but with a different relationship to it.

    Iโ€™m not here to build a feed.
    Iโ€™m here to build a life.

    One where my energy goes toward what truly matters.
    One where I stay present, grounded, and aligned with who I am becoming.

    That year offline wasnโ€™t a pause.
    It was a realignment.

    Here, I quote one of the most powerful and inspiring passages I read last year from the book Let Them Theory.

    โ€œLet me create a better life.
    A life that makes me proud.
    A life that makes me happy.
    A life where I use my precious energy to enjoy every single moment I have.โ€

    ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์ง€๋งŒ
    ์˜ˆ์ „๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ,
    ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค.

    ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ
    ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์žƒ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด.

    ์ด 1๋…„์€ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ,
    ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

  • Living with My Baby Boomer American In-Laws โ€” The Unexpected Blessings

    A few days ago, I shared a little story on Threads about living with my in-laws.I honestly didnโ€™t expect such a warm responseโ€ฆ but so many of you left the kindest comments, and it truly meant a lot to me. ๐Ÿฅน ๋ฉฐ์น  ์ „์— ์Šค๋ ˆ๋“œ์— ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์…”์„œโ€ฆ

    ๐Ÿงธ Our IKEA Kidsโ€™ Playzone Favorites (Cozy + Practical Picks We Truly Use)

    As parents, the space we think about the mostโ€”and the space our kids spend the most time inโ€”is definitely the playzone. Today Iโ€™m sharing the IKEA kidsโ€™ items weโ€™ve been loving,plus a few extra pieces that make our play area feel warm, cozy, and functional.(All product details are listed below ๐Ÿ‘‡) ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜โ€ฆ

    Living With My American In-Laws in Seattle: The Real Story

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›โ€ฆ

    Back to Blogging, After a While.

    Itโ€™s been a while since I last wrote here.
    More than a month, actually. I want to share our trip to Hawaii in December!

    Escaping the cold, gray days of Seattle, we flewโ€”almost impulsivelyโ€”to sunny Hawaii.
    This end-of-year family trip came with no strict plans, no packed itinerary.
    Just one simple intention: letโ€™s rest.

    And honestly?
    We ate well, rested well, and played well.
    Exactly what we needed.

    ์ถฅ๊ณ  ํšŒ์ƒ‰๋น›์ธ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€์„ ์ž ์‹œ ๋– ๋‚˜, ํ–‡์‚ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ํ•˜์™€์ด๋กœ ๋„๋ง์น˜๋“ฏ ๋‚ ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
    ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ์ฒ ์ €ํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš๋„ ์—†์ด, โ€œ์ผ๋‹จ ์‰ฌ์žโ€๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋– ๋‚œ ์—ฐ๋ง ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰.
    ๊ฒฐ๋ก ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด โ€” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ž˜ ๋จน๊ณ , ์ž˜ ์‰ฌ๊ณ , ์ž˜ ๋†€๋‹ค ์™”๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ– Hawaii Trip Day 1

    Arrival, Eating Our Way In & Picnic by the Ocean

    We started the day early and stayed busyโ€”in the best way.

    Our first stop was Don Quijote for breakfast: onigiri, snacks for our little one, juice, and coffee.
    Then we stopped by Nicoโ€™s Pier 38 to grab poke and sashimi to go, followed by La Tour Cafe (after accidentally walking into the cafรฉ next door ๐Ÿ˜…) for bread, kouign-amann, macarons, and banh mi sandwiches.

    With arms full of food, we headed to Ala Moana Park, laid out a picnic mat, and enjoyed everything by the ocean.
    After eating, we played by the beach for a bitโ€”simple, peaceful, perfect.

    ๐Ÿ“ Don Quijote onigiri is seriously good.
    Especially the mentaiko cream onigiriโ€ฆ unforgettable ๐Ÿฅน

    ๐Ÿ“ Nicoโ€™s Pier 38 is known for its incredibly fresh fish.
    You can dine in with an ocean view, but we opted for takeout and a picnic instead.

    ๐Ÿ“ La Tour Cafe bakes fresh bread daily.
    The banh mi sandwich was amazing, and the macarons were a standoutโ€”highly recommend guava and lilikoi flavors.

    By the time we got home, it was only 2 PM.
    Our toddler fell asleep for his nap, and we enjoyed a slow, quiet afternoon.

    Vacation had officially begun.

    ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋จน๋ฐฉ + ํ”ผํฌ๋‹‰ ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํžˆ ์›€์ง์ธ ํ•˜๋ฃจ.

    ๋ˆํ‚คํ˜ธํ…Œ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์•„์นจ์œผ๋กœ ๐Ÿ™์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋ž‘ ์•  ๊ฐ„์‹, ์ฃผ์Šค, ์ปคํ”ผ ์‚ฌ์„œ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ์ƒ์„ ์„ ๋ง›๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์ž‡๋Š” Niko’s ๊ฐ€์„œ ํฌํ‚ค๋ž‘ ์‚ฌ์‹œ๋ฏธ ํˆฌ๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ณ , La tour Bakery (์ž˜๋ชปํ•ด์„œ ์˜†์— ์นดํŽ˜๋กœ ๊ฐ) ์—์„œ ์‹๋นต, ํ€ธ์•„๋ง, ๋งˆ์นด๋กฑ, ๋ฐ˜๋ฏธ ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜ ํˆฌ๊ณ ํ•ด์„œ Ala Moana Park ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋—์ž๋ฆฌ๊น”๊ณ  ๋ƒ ๋ƒ  ๋จน๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์ข€ ๋†€๊ณ . ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํ•˜๋‹ค ใ…Žใ…Ž

    ๐Ÿ“ Don Quijote์—์„œ ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š” ์ถ”์ฒœ! ํŠนํžˆ ๋ฉ˜ํƒ€์ด์ฝ” ํฌ๋ฆผ ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌโ€ฆ ์ง„์งœ ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์Œ ๐Ÿฅน

    ๐Ÿ“ Nicoโ€™s Pier 38์—์„œ ํฌ์ผ€์™€ ์‚ฌ์‹œ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ๊ณ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋ ˆ์‰ฌํ•œ ์ƒ์„ ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ง›์ง‘์ด์—์š”. ์‹๋‹น๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ…Œ์ดํฌ์•„์›ƒ ํ•ด์„œ ํ”ผํฌ๋‹‰ ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ”์–ด์š”.


    ๐Ÿ“ La Tour Cafe์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹๋นต, ํ€ธ์•„๋ง, ๋งˆ์นด๋กฑ, ๋ฐ˜๋ฏธ ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž”๋œฉ. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ผ ๋นต ํ”„๋ ˆ์‰ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฝ๋Š” ๋กœ์ปฌ ๋ง›์ง‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐพ์•„์™€๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ˜๋ฏธ ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜ ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์—‡๊ณ , ๋งˆ์นด๋กฑ์ด ๋ณ„๋ฏธ์—์š”! ๊ตฌ์•„๋ฐ” ๋ง› ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ฝ”์ด ๋ง› ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ“Ala Moana Park๋กœ ๊ฐ€ ๋—์ž๋ฆฌ ๊น”๊ณ  ํ”ผํฌ๋‹‰. ์‚ฌ์˜จ ์Œ์‹๋“ค ๋‹ค ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๋ฐ”๋žŒ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ‰์˜จํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ โ€œ์•„โ€ฆ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์™”๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€ ์‹ค๊ฐ๋‚˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋‹ˆ ์•„์ง ์˜คํ›„ 2์‹œ, ์•„์ด๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์ž  ์ž ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ณ  ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์šด ์˜คํ›„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋””์–ด, ์‹œ์ž‘!

    ๐ŸŽ„ Hawaii Trip Day 2

    Merry Christmas in Hawaii

    We spent Christmas in Hawaiiโ€”and honestly, it didnโ€™t feel like Christmas at all with the warm weather.

    Our son is two now, just old enough to kind of understand Santaโ€ฆ maybe?
    Still, he happily opened two presents that morning.

    We had planned a beach dayโ€”but when we went outsideโ€ฆ the car battery was dead ๐Ÿซ 

    My in-lawsโ€™ car is an older Honda Fit, and something was clearly off.
    Not knowing exactly what the issue was, we plugged the battery into a charger and changed plans.

    New plan: spam musubi and onigiri for breakfast (again).
    The onigiri was so good, we didnโ€™t mind repeating it.

    Without a car, we walked slowly around the neighborhood and found a famous shave ice spot nearby.

    ๐Ÿ“ Waiola Shave Ice
    A retro-style shave ice shop that felt like stepping back in time.
    Perfect for kids, charming atmosphereโ€”and now Leo can finish an entire shave ice by himself.
    If anyone touches his, he has opinions ๐Ÿ˜†

    Dinner was a Christmas party at my husbandโ€™s auntโ€™s place.
    She prepared so much food, and we were incredibly grateful.

    Her condo near Ala Moana was on the 41st floorโ€”the view was unreal.
    From the living room, we could see Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head.
    We couldnโ€™t stop admiring it.

    ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•˜์™€์ด์—์„œ ๋งž์•˜๋„ค์š”! ๋‚ ์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ์ „ํ˜€ ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.

    ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ๋‘์‚ด์ด๋ผ ์‚ฐํƒ€ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์— ์˜จ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์•„์นจ์— ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜จ ์„ ๋ฌผ 2๊ฐœ ์˜คํ”ˆ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์ค€๋น„ ๋‹ค ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์™ ๊ฑธ, ์ฐจ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์ „ ๐Ÿซ 

    ์ €ํฌ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜ ์ฐจ๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ํ˜ผ๋‹ค ํ• ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค… ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ์ž˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ผ๋‹จ์€ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ง‘์— ์ถฉ์ „๊ธฐ์— ๊ฝ‚์•„๋‘๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™”์–ด์š”.

    ๊ณ„ํš ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ŠคํŒธ ๋ฌด์Šค๋น„ & ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์•„์นจ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ. ์˜ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋˜ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

    ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ์ง‘ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ์žˆ๋˜ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋น™์ˆ˜ ์ง‘์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Waiola Shave Ice
    ๋ ˆํŠธ๋กœ ๊ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๋น™์ˆ˜์ง‘. ์•„์ด๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์•˜๊ณ , ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋„ ์™„์ „ ๋ ˆํŠธ๋กœ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ, ํƒ€์ž„ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด์ œ ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•œ ๋น™์ˆ˜ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ธฐ ๊บผ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋บ์–ด๋จน๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ญ๋ผ ํ•˜๋„ค์š” ใ…Žใ…Ž

    ์ €๋…์€ ๋‚จํŽธ ๊ณ ๋ชจ ๋Œ์—์„œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ๐ŸŽ„ ๊ณ ๋ชจ ๋ถ„์ด ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ์•Œ๋ผ ๋ชจ์•„๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ์ฝ˜๋„์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ 41์ธต์ด๋ผ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ทฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์„œ ๊ณ„์† ๊ฐํƒ„๋งŒโ€ฆ โœจ

    ์ง‘์—์„œ ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค ๋น„์น˜๋„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์ด์•„๋ชฌ๋“œ ํ—ค๋“œ๋„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.

    ๐ŸŒŠ Hawaii Trip Day 3

    Day three started with another problemโ€”the car wouldnโ€™t start again.
    Morning panic.

    We gave up on the car and rented one through
    ๐Ÿ“ Hui Car Share
    Itโ€™s a great hourly car-sharing service: affordable, convenient, and perfect for emergencies.

    We headed to Kailua, our first time visiting Lanikai Beach.
    The neighborhood was charming and full of great restaurants.

    ๐Ÿ“ Mokeโ€™s Bread & Breakfast
    The lilikoi pancakes were incredible.
    They have multiple locations, but this Kailua spot was perfectโ€”short wait and delicious.

    ๐Ÿ“ ChadLouโ€™s Coffee Roasters
    A small local roastery near the restaurant.
    Great coffee, and any cafรฉ with an in-house roaster is usually a safe bet.

    ๐Ÿ“ Lanikai Beach
    Famous for its unreal ocean colorโ€”and it truly lives up to the hype.
    The sand is soft, perfect for kids to play in.
    It was windy and the waves were a bit strong, but still so fun.

    The weather wasnโ€™t overly hotโ€”just right for swimming.
    Leo isnโ€™t afraid of the ocean anymore, and playing together in the water was pure joy.
    We even saw a sea turtle while swimming.
    Sharing the ocean with turtles felt surreal and beautiful.

    ๋‘˜์งธ ๋‚ ์ธ๋ฐ ๋˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๋™์ด ์•ˆ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์–ด์š”! ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์™„์ „ ๋ฉ˜๋ถ•. ์ผ๋‹จ ์ฐจ๋Š” ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์ผ์ •์„ ์œ„ํ•ด
    ๐Ÿ“ Hui Car Share์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ œ ๋ Œํƒˆ์„ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฝค ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฐจ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์— ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋œ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ”ฝ์—…ํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ๋ ค๋†“์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ œ๋กœ ๋ Œํƒˆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์นด์ผ๋ฃจ์•„์— ๊ฐ”์–ด์š”. ๋ผ๋‹ˆ์นด์ด ๋น„์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ดค๋„ค์š”. ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์•„๊ธฐ์ž๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ท€์—ฝ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ์‹๋‹น๋„ ๋งŽ์•„์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Mokeโ€™s Bread & Breakfast
    ๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ฝ”์ด ํŒฌ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด ์‹๋‹น๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ๋กœ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์นด์ผ๋ฃจ์•„ ์˜จ ๊น€์— ์™”์–ด์š”. ์›จ์ดํŒ… ๊ธธ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ข‹์•„์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ ChadLouโ€™s Coffee Roasters
    ์ปคํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์„œ ์‹๋‹น ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—์„œ ์ฐพ์€ ์ž‘์€ ๋กœ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์นดํŽ˜, ์ปคํ”ผ ๋ง› ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. ์ž‘์€๋ฐ ์•ˆ์— ๋กœ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋กœ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ปคํ”ผ์ƒต์€ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ง› ๋ณด์žฅ์ด์ฃ !

    ๐Ÿ“ Lanikai Beach
    ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ผ๋‹ˆ์นด์ด ๋น„์น˜. ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์ƒ‰์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์š”. ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ์žฅ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์„œ ๋ชจ๋ž˜๋†€์ด ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์š”. ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์„œ ํŒŒ๋„๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ์Ž˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋†€์•˜์–ด์š”. ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฅ์ง„ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—” ์ ๋‹นํ•œ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ์˜€์–ด์š”. ์ด์ œ ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์„œ์›Œ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋…ธ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด๋„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”! ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋‹ค๋‹ˆ, ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด์—ˆ๋„ค์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“Ono-ya, Ramen

    ์ €๋…์‹์‚ฌ๋Š” ์˜ค๋…ธ์•ผ ๋ผ๋ฉ˜์—์„œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ •๋ง ์–ผ๋งˆ๋งŒ์— ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๋ผ๋ฉ˜์ธ์ง€! ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ด ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ๋ฐ ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋นจ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์šด๋ง› ๋จน์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋ผ๋ฉ˜ ๋ฉด๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ตญ๋ฌผ๋„ ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์–‘๋„ ํ‘ธ์งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ํ”ผ๊ณคํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฐฅ๋จน๋Š” ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์žค๋‹ค๋Š”..

    ๐Ÿฏ Hawaii Trip Day 4

    Zoo Day & A Relaxed Afternoon

    Morning grocery run at Don Quijote again.
    A โ€œsimpleโ€ haul turned into $120โ€ฆ Hawaii prices are no joke.

    ๐Ÿ“ Honolulu Zoo
    Located right next to Waikiki Beachโ€”super convenient.
    We didnโ€™t expect much, but it was surprisingly large with lots to see.

    There were monkeys, elephants, giraffesโ€”and even tigers.
    Seeing a tiger that close was a first for us.

    Leo, however, was far more excited about farm animals ๐Ÿ˜‚
    Cows, goats, pigsโ€”those stole the show.

    The weather was warm but comfortable, making it perfect for walking around.

    ๐Ÿ“ Knots Coffee Roasters
    Located across from the zoo, inside the Hotel Queen Kapiolani.
    I had an acai bowl and a Longboard Latte.

    I always order flavored lattes in Hawaii, and this oneโ€”with macadamia nut syrupโ€”was so good.
    Nutty, sweet, and uniquely Hawaiian.

    Dinner at
    ๐Ÿ“ Kickin Cajun
    A Korean-owned Cajun seafood spot.
    We chose a mildly spicy option; Leo had coconut shrimp and fries.
    Everything was delicious.

    We ended the day watching Moana 2 together.
    Leo can now sit through an entire movie, which makes family movie nights so much fun.

    ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๐Ÿ“ Don Quijote
    ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ(?) ์žฅ ๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ $120โ€ฆ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•˜์™€์ด ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์„œ์›Œ์š”. ์•„์นจ์œผ๋กœ ๋จน์„ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๋ฒคํ† ๋ž‘ ์Œ๋ฃŒ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ ์ƒ€๋„ค์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Honolulu Zoo
    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํ˜ธ๋†€๋ฃฐ๋ฃจ ์ฃผ์— ์™”์–ด์š”. ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค ๋น„์น˜ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์ด๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์„œ ์ข‹์•„์š”. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ํฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์•ˆ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ํฌ๊ณ  ๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜์–ด์š”. ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”! ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋‹ค๋“ค ๋ฅ๊ณ  ๊ท€์ฐฎ์•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋งŽ์ด ์›€์ง์ด์ง„ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”. ์›์ˆญ์ด๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๋กœ ๋งŽ๊ณ , ์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ, ๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑด ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ด์š”. ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด ์™„์ „ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋„ ํฐ ๊ฐํฅ ์—†๊ณ  ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋†์žฅ ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ๋” ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.๐Ÿ˜‚ ์†Œ๋ž‘ ์—ผ์†Œ๋ž‘ ๋ผ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋” ํฅ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฅ์ง€์•Š์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Knots Coffee Roasters
    ๋™๋ฌผ์› ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋งž์€ํŽธ ํ˜ธํ…” ํ€ธ ์นดํ”ผ์˜ฌ๋ผ๋‹ˆ ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋‚ซ์ธ  ์ปคํ”ผ ๋กœ์Šคํ„ฐ์Šค. ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์— ์™€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ชป์™€๋ด์„œ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์™”๋„ค์š”.

    ์•„์‚ฌ์ด ๋ณผ ํ•˜๊ณ  Longboard Latte ์‹œ์ผฐ์–ด์š”. ์ €๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ•˜์™€์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ๋„ฃ์€ ๋ผํ…Œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜ ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด ๋กฑ๋ณด๋“œ ๋ผํ…Œ ๋งˆ์นด๋‹ค๋ฏธ์•„ ๋„› ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ณ ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์™€์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ง› ์•ˆ๋‚˜์š” ์ •๋ง.

    ์ €๋…์€ ๐Ÿ“ Kickin Cajun
    ์ผ€์ด์ฅฐ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์‹œํ‘ธ๋“œ ์‹๋‹น์ธ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์šด์˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋งค์šด ์˜ต์…˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„œ ๋จน์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ์ฝ”์ฝ”๋„› ์Šˆ๋ฆผํ”„๋ž‘ ํ”„๋ Œ์น˜ ํ”„๋ผ์ด ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”!


    ์ง‘์— ์™€์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค๊ฐ™์ด Moana 2 ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์˜ํ™” ํ•œํŽธ์„ ์ญ‰ ๋‹ค ์•‰์•„์„œ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ์˜ํ™”๋ณด๋ฉด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฐŒ์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿค Hawaii Trip Day 5

    North Shore & Kidsโ€™ Paradise

    We assumed winter would be off-season in Hawaiiโ€ฆ but nopeโ€”peak season ๐Ÿ˜ณ
    So many tourists, especially from Japan and Korea.

    North Shore tip: go early.

    ๐Ÿ“ Giovanniโ€™s Shrimp Truck
    Arrived right at openingโ€”minimal wait, success.
    Both North Shore locations are great; just go to whichever is closer.

    We wanted to visit the Snoopy shop, but traffic was intense.
    North Shore roads are narrow, and on busy days itโ€™s toughโ€”so we headed back early.

    Dinner at
    ๐Ÿ“ Chez Kenzo
    A local pub Iโ€™ve mentioned before.
    Their happy hour is legendary.

    $9 plates, generous portions, and beer for $2.99.
    Three people ate until full for $50โ€”unbeatable in Honolulu.

    ๐Ÿ“ Keiki Kingdom
    A massive indoor play gymโ€”truly a kidsโ€™ paradise.
    Clean, huge, and even has an obstacle course on the ceiling for adults.

    Leo played until closing time, and we had way more fun than expected.

    Dessert at
    ๐Ÿ“ Ululaniโ€™s Hawaiian Shave Ice
    Our favorite shave ice spot.
    They use fresh, locally made syrups, and it shows.

    Add a scoop of macadamia nut ice cream and youโ€™re basically in heaven.
    Located next to Leonardโ€™sโ€”donโ€™t miss it.

    ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ๊ฒจ์šธ์— ํ•˜์™€์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ด ๋น„์ˆ˜๊ธฐ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”โ€ฆ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์™ ๊ฑธ, ์™„์ „ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ ๐Ÿ˜ณ ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค๋‚˜ ๋…ธ์Šค ์‡ผ์–ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณณ์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ณธ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด์š”. ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์—ฐ๋ง ํœด๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด๋“ค ์˜ค๋‚˜๋ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋…ธ์Šค์‡ผ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์•„์นจ ์ผ์ฐ! ๊ฐ€์‹œ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Giovanniโ€™s Shrimp Truck
    ์˜คํ”ˆ ํƒ€์ž„ ๋งž์ถฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ค„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์ด ์„ฑ๊ณต. ์ด๋ฏธ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์€ ๊ฝ‰์ฐจ์„œ ๋‹ค๋“ค ๋จน๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ธด ํ•œ๊ฐ€๋ด์š”. ๋…ธ์Šค ์‡ผ์–ด์— ์ง€์˜ค๋ฐ˜๋‹ˆ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ์ด ๋กœ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด ๋‘๊ฐœ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‘˜๋‹ค ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋…ธ์Šค์‡ผ์–ด์—์„œ ์Šค๋ˆ„ํ”ผ ์ƒต๋„ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์•„์„œ – ๋…ธ์Šค์‡ผ์–ด๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด 1์ฐจ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ์ข์•„์š”. ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๋‚ ์€ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ํž˜๋“ค๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ์ฐ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ €๋…์€ ๐Ÿ“ Chez Kenzo
    ์—ฌ๊ธด ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ ํฌ์ŠคํŒ…์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฉ˜์…˜ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋กœ์ปฌ ๋ง›์ง‘ ํŽ์ด์—์š”. ํ•ดํ”ผ์•„์›Œ๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์š”. ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๊ฐ€ ์—„์ฒญ ๋งŽ์€๋ฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹น $9์ •๋„๋กœ ์–‘๋„ ํ‘ธ์งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋”œ๊ฐ€๋‚˜ ๋น„์‹ผ ํ˜ธ๋†€๋ฃจ๋ฃจ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ง›์ง‘์ด์—์š”.
    ํ•ดํ”ผ์•„์›Œ $9 ๋ฉ”๋‰ด + ๋งฅ์ฃผ $2.99
    ์„ธ ๋ช…์ด ๋ฐฐ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  $50 โ†’ ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋งž์ฃ ?

    ๐Ÿ“ Keiki Kingdom
    ์ €๋… ๋จน๊ณ  ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ชป ๋…ผ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์ง์„ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ๊ฐ”์–ด์š”. ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ์ฒœ๊ตญ. ์ •๋ง ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋ณธ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ์ค‘ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ตœ๊ณ ์—์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹œ์„ค์ด ํฌ๊ณ  ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ฒœ์žฅ์— ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ ์ฝ”์Šค๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์–ด๋ฅธ๋„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ๋‹ซ๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ๋†€์•˜์–ด์š”. ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‹ ๋‚˜์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋†€์•˜๋„ค์š”.

    ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๐Ÿ“ Ululaniโ€™s Hawaiian Shave Ice
    ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น™์ˆ˜์ง‘์ด์—์š”. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์€ ๋‹ค ํ”„๋ ˆ์‰ฌํ•œ ๋กœ์ปฌ ๊ณผ์ผ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์–ด์ฉ์ง€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ง›๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์นด๋‹ค๋ฏธ์•„ ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ ํ•œ ์Šค์ฟฑ ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ์ง„์งœ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ด์—์š”. ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ค„ ์„œ์„œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ์ผ€์ด์…˜์€ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ Leonard’s ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์ด๋‹ˆ, ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋“ค๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!

    ๐ŸŒด Hawaii Trip Day 6

    The Perfect Beach Day with a Toddler

    ๐Ÿ“ Ala Moana Beach Park
    Our favorite beach.
    Free parking, calm shallow water, and perfect for kids.

    Leo swam and played for hours.
    Seeing him love the ocean so much made me think,
    This is why traveling with kids is worth it.

    We grabbed sandwiches and spent half the day there.

    Dinner at
    ๐Ÿ“ I-Naba
    Soba and tempura comboโ€”solid and satisfying.
    I always order tempura ice cream for dessert (highly recommend).

    After dinner, we finally went shopping in Waikikiโ€”mainly for gifts.

    ๐Ÿ“ CocoNene
    If you want Hawaiian-themed customized souvenirs, this is a must.
    You can personalize picture frames, clocks, and more.

    We ended up buying four sets as giftsโ€”everything was so cute.

    ๐Ÿ“ Ala Moana Beach Park

    ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์น˜์—์š”. ์—„์ฒญ ๋„“์€ ๊ณต์›์ธ๋ฐ ํŒŒํ‚น๋„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๊ณ , ๋น„์น˜๋Š” ๋‘‘์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ฌผ๋„ ์–•๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋„๋„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์–ด์„œ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด๋ž‘ ๋†€๊ธฐ ์ข‹์•„์š”. ๋กœ์ปฌ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์˜ค๋Š” ๋น„์น˜์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ž‘ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋˜ ํ•œ์ฐธ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋†€์•˜๋„ค์š”. ์ด์ œ ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  “์•„, ์ด ๋ง›์— ์ •๋ง ์•„์ด๋ž‘ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š”๊ตฌ๋‚˜” ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋ฐ˜๋‚˜์ ˆ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋†€์•˜์–ด์š”.

    ์ €๋…์€ ๐Ÿ“ I-naba
    ์ €๋งŒ ์•„๋Š” ๋ง›์ง‘์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”? ์‹ ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์†Œ๋ฐ” + ํ…ํ‘ธ๋ผ ์ฝค๋ณด ๋จน์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ €๋Š” ๊ผญ ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ ํ…œํ‘ธ๋ผ ๋ฅผ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋กœ ๋จน์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋””์„œ๋„ ๋จน๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ , JMT ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ข€ ๋น„์‹ผ ํŽธ์ธ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ์ด๋‚˜๋ฐ” ๋ง๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹๋‹น๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๋ ค๊ตฌ์š”.

    ์˜จ ํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‡ผํ•‘ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์–ด์š”. ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ํ•˜์™€์ด ์ž์ฃผ ์˜ค๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ตณ์ด ์‡ผํ•‘์„ ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ์—†์–ด์„œ ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์–ด์š”. ์ €๋… ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ฐ”๊ธ€๋ฐ”๊ธ€ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.
    ๐Ÿ“ CocoNene
    ํ•˜์™€์ด ํ…Œ๋งˆ ์ปค์Šคํ„ฐ๋งˆ์ด์ฆˆ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ’ˆ ์ถ”์ฒœ! ์ •๋ง ์ด ์Šคํ† ์–ด ๊ผญ ๋“ค๋ฅด์„ธ์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์•„์š”! ์•ก์ž๋ฅผ ์ปค์Šคํ† ๋งˆ์ด์ฆˆ ํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฐ‹๊ณ  ๊ท€์—ฌ์›Œ์„œ ์„ ๋ฌผ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ 4์…‹ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ƒ€์–ด์š”. ์†๋‹˜๋“ค๋„ ๋‹ค ์—„์ฒญ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋ฒฝ์‹œ๊ณ„๋„ ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  ํ•˜์™€์ด ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์™€์ด ๋А๋‚Œ ๋ฌผ์”ฌ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

    Hawaii Trip Day 7.

    Slow Last Day & A Perfect Sunset

    We spent our last day slowly, eating good food and resting.

    ๐Ÿ“ Kona Coffee Purveyors
    Always a long lineโ€”around 30 minutes.
    The coffee and kouign-amann are good, but the wait is long.
    Next time, I might skip it.

    ๐Ÿ“ Korea Garden
    I usually avoid Korean restaurants while traveling, but this place was fantastic.

    We ordered galbi, seolleongtang, bibim naengmyeon, bulgogi, and dolsot bibimbapโ€”everything was delicious.
    Even my husbandโ€™s aunt (who isnโ€™t Korean) loved it and kept scraping her plate clean.

    ๐Ÿ“ Monkeypod Kitchen
    Absolute must-visit.

    Make sure to go around sunsetโ€”4:30 PM or later.
    We enjoyed live music, ocean breeze, and one of the most dramatic sunsets Iโ€™ve ever seen in Hawaii.

    The food, cocktails, serviceโ€”everything was perfect.
    Kids under three eat free, and nearby live music in the hotel lobby made the night even more magical.

    ๐Ÿ“Kona Coffee Puveyors

    ๋ณด๋ฉด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ค„์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ 30๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ฝ”๋‚˜ ์ปคํ”ผ ๋นˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํŽ˜์ด์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ ํ€ธ์•„๋ง ์ด ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ €๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ์—” ํŒจ์Šค ํ•˜๋ ค๊ตฌ์š”, ์ค„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธธ์–ด..

    ๐Ÿ“Korea garden

    ์ €๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น ์ž˜ ์•ˆ๊ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”? ์ง‘์—์„œ ํ•ด๋จน๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ตณ์ด ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์„œ ๋น„์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ๋จน์–ด์•ผํ•˜๋‚˜ ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ.. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋‚จํŽธ ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ถ„๋Œ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ง„์งœ ์†Œ๋ฌธ๋‚œ ๋ง›์ง‘ ์ด๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”~ ํ•œ์ƒ ์ฐจ๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”! ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋กœ ์ผ๋‹จ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹ค ๋งŒํ•œ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ํ‘ธ๋“œ ์—”ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋“ค๋กœ ์ซ™ ์‹œ์ผœ๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ฐˆ๋น„, ์„ค๋ ํƒ•, ๋น„๋น”๋ƒ‰๋ฉด (๋‚จํŽธ ์ตœ์• ), ๋ถˆ๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ๋Œ์†ฅ ๋น„๋น”๋ฐฅ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ผฐ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‹ค ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”! ๋ฐ˜์ฐฌ๋„ ์™„์ „ ํ‘ธ์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐฑ์ธ์ธ ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์Œ์‹ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋จน๋Š”๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์Œ์‹์€ ์ž๊ธฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์Šคํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์–ด์Šค ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹œ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐˆ๋น„๋ž‘ ์„ค๋ ํƒ• ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ , ๋ฐฅ ๋‹ค ๋“œ์‹  ๋’ค ๊ณ„์† ์ ‘์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ธ์œผ์…จ๋‹ค๋Š” ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์‹์‚ฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋„ค์š” ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ง›์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์„œ.

    ๐Ÿ“Monkeypod Kitchen

    ์—ฌ๊ธด ์ง„์งœ ์ง„์งœ ๊ฐ•์ถ”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธํ…” ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์—ฌ๊ธธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ด์ œ์•ผ ์•Œ์•˜๋‚˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์„ ์…‹ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋งž์ถฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ ๋ฐ˜์ฏค ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ€๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ 3:30์— ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊นœ๋นก ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ•ด์„œ 4:30์ธ์ค„ ์•Œ๊ณ  4:00์— ๊ฐ”๋‹ค๋Š” ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž 4:30์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์•‰์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์†”์†” ๋ถˆ๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ•˜์™€์ด ์„ ์…‹ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ๋ฎค์ง ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉด์„œ ์ €๋… ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”! ํ•˜์™€์ด ์„ ์…‹, ์„ ์…‹ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด ๋‚ ๋งŒํผ ์„ ์…‹ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•œ ๋‚ ์€ ๋˜ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆํ‹ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ๋…ธ์„์ด ์ ธ์„œ ์ •๋ง ๋ญ‰ํด ํ–ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ตฌ ์นตํ…Œ์ผ๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋„ ์ข‹๊ณ , ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ์•‰์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๋„˜ ์ž˜ ์•‰์•„์žˆ๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์นญ์ฐฌ ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ์–ด์š” ใ…Žใ…Ž ์„ธ์‚ด ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์•„์ด๋Š” ํ‚ค์ฆˆ๋ฐ€ ๊ณต์งœ๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์ €๋… ๋‹ค ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ํ˜ธํ…” ๋กœ๋น„ ์ชฝ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ๋ฐด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ฃผ ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์‚ด๋ž‘์‚ด๋ž‘ ๋ถˆ๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์—ฐ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ €๋…์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์‹œ ์™€๋„ ๊ผญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐˆ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

    ๐Ÿ’™ Closing Thoughts

    This Hawaii trip wasnโ€™t about sightseeing or checking boxes.
    It was about rest.

    No big plans, no pressureโ€”just time together.
    After a year of nonstop work for my husband, this felt like a real vacation.

    Warm sun, endless blue skies, laughter, good food, and rest.
    Exactly what we needed.

    Until next time, Hawaii ๐ŸŒบ

    ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•˜์™€์ด ์—ฌํ–‰์€
    ๊ณ„ํš๋„ ์—†๊ณ , ์š•์‹ฌ๋„ ์—†๊ณ ,
    ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‰ผ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

    ์ผ๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ์ผ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ€„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ํƒ€์ž„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ํœด๊ฐ€๊ฐ™์€ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถฅ๊ณ  ๋น„์˜ค๋Š” ์‹œ์• ํ‹€์„ ๋– ๋‚˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‡๋ณ• ์จ์จํ•œ ํ•˜์™€์ด๋ผ๋‹ˆ, ๋”ํ•  ๋‚˜์œ„ ์—†์—ˆ๋„ค์š”.

    ์ž˜ ๋จน๊ณ , ์ž˜ ์›ƒ๊ณ , ์ž˜ ์‰ฌ๊ณ .
    ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋˜ ์˜ฌ๊ฒŒ์š”, ํ•˜์™€์ด ๐ŸŒบ

    ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•˜์™€์ด ์ถ”์ฒœ์ง€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด ํฌ์ŠคํŒ… ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

    The slower days in Hawaii โ€“ where to go in Waikiki, Honolulu and North shore,ย Oahu.

  • Morning Journals & a Cute Starbucks Gift โ˜•๐Ÿ‚

    Starbucks just dropped the cutest new merch โ€”I couldnโ€™t resist, so I got a few pieces myself. ๐ŸคŽThe Hello Kitty items were already gone (of course ๐Ÿฅฒ),but these little bear cups are adorable. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค ์‹ ์ƒ ๊ตฟ์ฆˆ๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์™”๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š” ๐ŸคŽ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ Get!์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ—ฌ๋กœํ‚คํ‹ฐ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ํ’ˆ์ ˆ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๐Ÿฅฒ๊ณฐ๋Œ์ด ์ปต๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฌ์›Œ์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ƒ์ผโ€ฆ

    Why We Moved to Seattle ๐Ÿ โ€” To Raise Our Child in Nature

    Weekends are always for the park.When we decided to move to the Seattle area, it was mainly for one reason โ€”to raise our child surrounded by nature. ์ฃผ๋ง์ด๋ฉด ๋Š˜ ์•„์ด ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™๋„ค ๊ณต์›์— ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์• ํ‹€๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜ค๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ด์œ ๋„์•„์ด์—๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ์ž์—ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ์˜€์–ด์š”. Now, whenever we visit little playgrounds tucked insideโ€ฆ

    Cozy Minimal Scarf Styling for Winter ๐ŸคŽ

    How about a matching scarf moment this winter?Iโ€™m really into this kind of effortless, minimal styling โ€”it looks cozy, warm, and still feels so chic. ๐ŸคŽ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—” ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์•ˆ ์“ด ๋“ฏ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์Šค์นดํ”„ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง์ด ๋Œ€์„ธ์ธ ๋“ฏ!์ฝ”์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์„ธ๋ จ๋œ ๋ฌด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฑ ๋‚ด ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ๐ŸคŽ Try pairing your scarf with your jacket inโ€ฆ

    Somehow 2025 is already coming to a close.
    Time moved so fast this year that I honestly donโ€™t know where it all went.
    But as I look back, I wanted to take a moment to deeply thank myself for everything Iโ€™ve carried, survived, and created.

    2025๋…„๋„ ์–ด๋А๋ง ๋์ž๋ฝ์ด์—์š”.
    ์ •๋งโ€ฆ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋„ ๋˜๋‚˜ ์‹ถ์„ ๋งŒํผ ํ›… ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€์–ด์š”.
    ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋ฉด ์ •์‹ ์—†์ด ๋ฐ”์˜๊ณ , ๋งค์ผ์ด ๋„์ „์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฌต๋ฌตํžˆ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    โœจ What I accomplished this year

    โœˆ๏ธ March โ€” Traveled to Japan with my 1.5-year-old baby
    ๐Ÿ’ผ Late March โ€” Started a new job and jumped straight into working-mom life
    ๐Ÿ‘ถ Survived the daycare adjustment period
    ๐ŸŽ‰ May โ€” Became a U.S. citizen
    ๐ŸŒด July โ€” Hawaii with my family
    ๐ŸŒด September โ€” LA trip
    ๐ŸŒด December โ€” Wrapped up the year in Hawaii again

    All of this while my husbandโ€™s work hours stayed late.
    I did all the drop-offs and pick-ups, worked full-time, took care of the home, and in the one little hour I had left each day, I chose to invest in my creativity.
    I kept practicing AI image creation, slowly but surely building new skills.
    And honestly? That alone deserves a huge round of applause.

    โœจ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‚ธ ์ผ๋“ค

    โœˆ๏ธ 3์›” โ€” ํ•œ ์‚ด ๋ฐ˜ ์•„์ด์™€ ์ฒซ ์ผ๋ณธ ์—ฌํ–‰
    ๐Ÿ’ผ 3์›” ๋ง โ€” ์ง์žฅ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ ํ›„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์›Œํ‚น๋ง˜ ๋ผ์ดํ”„ ์‹œ์ž‘
    ๐Ÿ‘ถ ๋ฐ์ด์ผ€์–ด ์ ์‘๊ธฐ โ€” ์šธ๊ณ  ์›ƒ๊ณ , ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์•ˆ์ •๊ธฐ
    ๐ŸŽ‰ 5์›” โ€” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ ์ทจ๋“
    ๐ŸŒด 7์›” โ€” ์นœ์ • ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•˜์™€์ด์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ํœด๊ฐ€
    ๐ŸŒด 9์›” โ€” LA ์—ฌํ–‰
    ๐ŸŒด 12์›” โ€” ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•˜์™€์ด์—์„œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ

    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋‚จํŽธ์˜ ๋Šฆ์€ ํ‡ด๊ทผ์œผ๋กœ ์œก์•„ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ˜ผ์ž ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„
    ๋“œ๋ž์˜คํ”„, ํ”ฝ์—…, ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ, ์ถœ๊ทผ, ์—…๋ฌดโ€ฆ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚จ๋Š” ๋‹จ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ โ€˜๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผโ€™๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ถ™์žก์•„์˜จ ๋‚˜.
    AI ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ์Œ“์—ฌ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ๋„, ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ ์ž‘์€ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋„ ๋†“์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

    ๐Ÿ’ก Two things Iโ€™m especially proud of
    1. Starting my blog
    2. Starting Threads

    These two spaces became little homes for my thoughts, memories, and creativity.
    And on Threads, I met 948 new friends who walk this journey with me โ€” something I never expected but deeply appreciate.

    There were days when I wondered, โ€œWhatโ€™s the point of all this?โ€
    Days when it felt like no one noticed my effort.
    But I kept going.
    The old me wouldโ€™ve quit, but this yearโ€ฆ
    I didnโ€™t.
    And thatโ€™s what makes me proud.

    ๐Ÿ’ก ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ํ•œ ์ผ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€
    1. ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ
    2. ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ

    ๋‘ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์— ๋‚จ๊ธด ๊ธฐ๋ก๋“ค์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ ,
    ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ 948๋ช…์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”.
    โ€œ๋‚˜๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„โ€์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ๋˜๊ณ , ์œ„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ , ์›ƒ์Œ์ด ๋˜๋Š”๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€ฆ
    ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋А๋‚€ ๊ฒŒ ์˜ฌํ•ด ํฐ ๊ธฐ์จ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜€์–ด์š”.

    ๐ŸŒฑ What I learned as a working mom

    This year taught me more than any self-help book ever could.
    Here are the lessons that held me together:

    1๏ธโƒฃ Letting go of perfection = survival

    No day will ever be perfect โ€” not the house, not work, not parenting.
    Accepting โ€œtoday, this is good enoughโ€ is everything.

    2๏ธโƒฃ Willpower doesnโ€™t replace basic needs

    Sleep, food, water.
    When those fall apart, everything else does too.
    This is the most practical form of self-care.

    3๏ธโƒฃ Less guilt = more energy

    Mom guilt, work guilt, personal guiltโ€ฆ
    Once I stopped carrying all of that, my days flowed so much easier.

    4๏ธโƒฃ Asking for help is strategy, not weakness

    The moment I allowed myself to lean on others, I could finally breathe.

    5๏ธโƒฃ Not โ€œlater,โ€ but โ€œa little nowโ€

    10 minutes.
    30 minutes.
    Anything small that keeps me connected to myself โ€” thatโ€™s what saved me from losing who I am.

    Being a mom and working means constantly feeling like youโ€™re juggling too much and still dropping balls.
    But creating these small routines and boundaries helped me stay grounded in who I am, not just what I do for others.

    ๐ŸŒฑ โ€˜์›Œํ‚น๋ง˜โ€™์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค

    ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฑด, โ€œ์ž˜ ๋ฒ„ํ…จ๋‚ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“คโ€์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

    1๏ธโƒฃ ์™„๋ฒฝ ํฌ๊ธฐ = ์ƒ์กด

    ์ง‘, ์ผ, ์œก์•„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‚ ์€ ์—†์–ด์š”.
    โ€œ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ด ์ •๋„๋ฉด ๋๋‹คโ€๋ฅผ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ํ—ˆ๋ฝํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ˆจ์ด ํŠธ์˜€์–ด์š”.

    2๏ธโƒฃ ์ฒด๋ ฅ์€ ์˜์ง€๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    ์ž , ๋ฐฅ, ๋ฌผ.
    ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋ฉ˜ํƒˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ ธ์š”.
    ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ์ž๊ธฐ๊ด€๋ฆฌ.

    3๏ธโƒฃ ์ฃ„์ฑ…๊ฐ์„ ์ค„์ด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค

    ์•„์ด์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์•ˆ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋ฏธ์•ˆ, ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์•ˆโ€ฆ
    ์ด ๊ฐ์ •๋“ค์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“์œผ๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.

    4๏ธโƒฃ ๋„์›€ ์š”์ฒญ์€ ๋ฌด๋Šฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ „๋žต

    ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•˜๋ ค๋˜ ์Šต๊ด€์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ , ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ง„์งœ ์ˆจํ†ต์ด ํŠธ์˜€์–ด์š”.

    5๏ธโƒฃ โ€˜๋‚˜์ค‘์—โ€™ ๋ง๊ณ  โ€˜์ง€๊ธˆ ์กฐ๊ธˆโ€™

    ํฐ ๊ณ„ํš ๋ง๊ณ  10๋ถ„, 30๋ถ„.
    ๊ทธ ์ž‘์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋กœ ์ง€์ผœ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฃจํ‹ด์ด ๋˜๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.
    ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋„, ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋˜์–ด๋„, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ โ€˜๋‚˜โ€™์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ.

    ๐Ÿ’ญ Soโ€ฆ how was 2025?

    It wasnโ€™t the sparkliest year.
    It wasnโ€™t glamorous.
    But it was a year I endured, grew, and kept going.

    And sometimes, that is more than enough.
    Maybe even everything.

    Goodbye, 2025.
    Hello, 2026 โ€” be gentle with me. ๐ŸŒ™

    Hereโ€™s to becoming stronger, softer, and more myself in the new year.
    Iโ€™m proud of you, 2025 me.

    ๐Ÿ’ญ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ, ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋• ๋ƒ๊ณ  ๋ฌป๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด?

    ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ํ™”๋ คํ•จ์€ ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ,
    ๋ฒ„ํ…จ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

    ํž˜๋“ค์–ด๋„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์Œ“์•„์™”์–ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์–ด๋–ค ํ™”๋ คํ•จ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ  ๊ท€ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

    2025๋…„, ์ž˜ ๊ฐ€.
    2026๋…„, ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด. ๐ŸŒ™

    ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•œ ํ•ด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋” ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•ด์ง€๊ณ , ๋” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์ง€๊ณ , ๋” ๋‚˜๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ.
    ์˜ฌํ•ด๋„ ์ •๋ง ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”, ๋‚˜.

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    The Art of Giving, New born Baby Gift box

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›โ€ฆ

    Itโ€™s finally my favorite season of the year โ€” Christmas!
    This year, Iโ€™ve been attending so many Christmas parties that I havenโ€™t been able to blog as much as I wanted. Today, Iโ€™m excited to share a little story from our pink-themed Christmas party, which we hosted for Leoโ€™s daycare friends a couple of weekends ago.

    ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ฆŒ, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์™”์–ด์š”!
    ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ํฌ์ŠคํŒ…์„ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ชป ํ–ˆ๋„ค์š”.
    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ง€์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์ฃผ๋ง, ๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ๋ฐ์ด์ผ€์–ด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ด์—ˆ๋˜ ํ•‘ํฌ ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ…Œ๋งˆ์˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

    The idea for a Pink Christmas Party came from Pinterest.
    I instantly fell in love with its soft, feminine, and romantic vibe. I think this theme became even more popular recently after LoveShackFancy launched their Christmas decoration collection this season.

    We started by creating and handing out invitations.
    Having a mood board and invitation prepared in advance makes party planning so much easier, and it also helps guests quickly understand the overall vibe and dress code.

    โ€˜ํ•‘ํฌ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŒŒํ‹ฐโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ์ปจ์…‰์€ ํ•€ํ„ฐ๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์—ฌ์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฌด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ๋ปค๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— LoveShackFancy์—์„œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ฐ์ฝ” ์•„์ดํ…œ๋“ค์„ ๋Ÿฐ์นญํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์ง„ ์ปจ์…‰์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

    ๋จผ์ € ์ดˆ๋Œ€์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ๋“œ๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด๋“œ๋ณด๋“œ์™€ ์ดˆ๋Œ€์žฅ์„ ๋จผ์ € ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด๋‘๋ฉด ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ์ค€๋น„ ๊ณผ์ •๋„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ˆ˜์›”ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ดˆ๋Œ€๋ฐ›์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ๋“œ๋ ˆ์Šค ์ฝ”๋“œ๋‚˜ ์ „์ฒด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ข‹์•„์š”.

    I co-hosted the party with a close mom friend, which definitely made things more manageable.
    I was in charge of decorations, so I brought many items from home and purchased additional pieces as needed. Since we planned a dessert table, I also prepared desserts in advance.

    Most of the decorations were purchased from HomeGoods, World Market, and Amazon, while the balloons and helium tank were from Target. There were so many adorable items โ€” it was hard to resist!

    ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ €์™€ ์นœํ•œ ์—„๋งˆ ํ•œ ๋ถ„์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŒ…ํ•ด์„œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋œํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ์ €๋Š” ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง‘์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋˜ ์†Œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋””์ €ํŠธ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋„ ๊พธ๋ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ผ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๊ณ ์š”.

    ์ฃผ๋กœ HomeGoods, World Market, Amazon์—์„œ ์•„์ดํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ–ˆ๊ณ ,
    ํ’์„ ๊ณผ ํ—ฌ๋ฅจ ํƒฑํฌ๋Š” Target์—์„œ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด ์•„์ดํ…œ๋“ค์ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์ ์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ผ๋‹จ ์ง‘ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฌธ ์•ž์— ํ’์„  ์žฅ์‹๊ณผ ์•„์ด์ผ€์•„ ๋ณ„ ์กฐ๋ช… ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํž˜์„ ์ข€ ์คฌ์–ด์š”. ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์™€! ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆํ‹ฑํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ํ’์„ ์„ ์ž”๋œฉ ๋„์šฐ๊ณ  ๋ณ„์„ ์ค‘์•™์— ๋ถ™์˜€์–ด์š”. ํ’์„ ๊ณผ ๊ฐˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ํƒ€๊ฒŸ ์ œํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    For the entrance, I went all out with balloon decorations and IKEA star lights.
    I wanted guests to have a dramatic โ€œwowโ€ moment as soon as they walked in, so I filled the space with balloons and placed the star right in the center.
    The balloons and garlands were all from Target.

    Inside the house, I added garlands and pink velvet ribbons throughout to bring in a festive Christmas feel.
    Pink candles were the final touch โ€” they really completed the pink Christmas mood.
    I even tied pink velvet ribbons onto the champagne glasses for a little extra detail.

    ์ง‘ ์ž…๊ตฌ์—๋Š” ํ’์„  ์žฅ์‹๊ณผ ์ด์ผ€์•„ ๋ณ„ ์กฐ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์คฌ์–ด์š”.
    ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ โ€œ์™€!โ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐํƒ„์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ’์„ ์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ๋„์šฐ๊ณ , ์ค‘์•™์— ๋ณ„ ์กฐ๋ช…์„ ๋‹ฌ์•„ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆํ‹ฑํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.
    ํ’์„ ๊ณผ ๊ฐˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ Target ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์—์š”.

    ์ง‘ ์•ˆ ๊ณณ๊ณณ๋„ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์”ฌ ๋‚˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐˆ๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ํ•‘ํฌ ๋ฒจ๋ฒณ ๋ฆฌ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊พธ๋ช„์–ด์š”.
    ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•‘ํฌ ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ์บ”๋“ค๋กœโ€”์ด๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๋”ํ•ด๋„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ํ•‘ํฌ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ฌด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์™„์„ฑ๋ผ์š”.
    ์ƒดํŽ˜์ธ ๊ธ€๋ž˜์Šค์—๋„ ๋ฒจ๋ฒณ ํ•‘ํฌ ๋ฆฌ๋ณธ์„ ๋ฌถ์–ด ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์„ ์‚ด๋ ค์คฌ๊ณ ์š”.

    The area I focused on the most was the dessert table.
    I bought a plain red velvet cake and decorated it myself with cookies and berries โ€” isnโ€™t it so cute?
    We also prepared a variety of gingerbread cookies and shortbread cookies, along with marshmallows and hot cocoa.
    (Although, I wish the hot cocoa had been more popular!)

    The hot cocoa set was from HomeGoods, and I loved how cute it was โ€” it even came with different flavors.
    The Santa cookie jar is something I use every year, and itโ€™s honestly perfect for Christmas decor.

    ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์˜€์–ด์š”.
    ๋ ˆ๋“œ๋ฒจ๋ฒณ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ธ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์„œ, ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ์ฟ ํ‚ค์™€ ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ•ด๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”?
    ์ง„์ €๋ธŒ๋ ˆ๋“œ ์ฟ ํ‚ค์™€ ์ˆ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ๋“œ ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉœ๋กœ์™€ ํ•ซ์ดˆ์ฝ”๋„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    (๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•ซ์ดˆ์ฝ”๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ์•ˆ ๋งˆ์…”์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ๋‹ค๋Š”โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜…)

    ํ•ซ์ดˆ์ฝ” ์„ธํŠธ๋Š” HomeGoods์—์„œ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฒ„๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์‚ฐํƒ€ ์ฟ ํ‚ค ํ†ต์€ ๋งค๋…„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ดํ…œ์ธ๋ฐ, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋กœ ์ •๋ง ๋”ฑ์ด์—์š”.

    We prepared plenty of food, and everyone enjoyed it so much.
    Big applause for the hosting moms! ๐Ÿ‘

    ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŒ… ๋ง˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜! ๐Ÿ‘

    Leo, his friends, and all the families had such a wonderful time together.
    Christmas really is about sharing special moments with people you love.
    The kids also played a Secret Santa game and each took home a gift โ€” seeing how happy they were made all of us smile.

    ๋ฆฌ์˜ค์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”.
    ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์‹œ์ฆŒ์€ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
    ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์‹œํฌ๋ฆฟ ์‚ฐํƒ€ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ž ์„ ๋ฌผ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‹ค๋“ค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ฌ์•„ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    I realized I donโ€™t have many photos of myself, but hereโ€™s a behind-the-scenes shot from the preparation process.
    You can probably tell how hard we workedโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Š

    ์ •์ž‘ ์ €๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ง„์ด ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š๋„ค์š”.
    ์•„๋ž˜๋Š” ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ์ค‘์— ์ฐ์€ ๋น„ํ•˜์ธ๋“œ ์ปท์ด์—์š”.
    ์ •๋ง ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ํ”์ โ€ฆ ๋ณด์ด์‹œ์ฃ ? ใ…Žใ…Ž

  • Sukiyaki, My Favorite Comfort Food to Share with Guests ๐Ÿ’›

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›โ€ฆ

    The Slower days in LA – Where to eat, where to shop and what to do.

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›โ€ฆ

    What I bought for Leo from Gap Kids this Fall

    As you know, Iโ€™m a fashion designer โ€” and I love to dress up. But what I love even more is dressing up my kid. ๐ŸฅฐI try my best not to go overboard with shopping since kids grow so fast and most clothes only last a few months. But stillโ€ฆ I canโ€™t resist picking upโ€ฆ

    Last weekend, we went and visited Seattle Aquarium. We were all excited for the new renovated aquarium. It was a such a fun family outing.

    ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ๋ง, ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€(Seattle Aquarium)์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์–ด์š”.
    ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ๋ฒ ์ด์…˜๋œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€์ด ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์ •๋ง ์„ค๋ ˆ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฃผ๋ง ๋‚˜๋“ค์ด์˜€์–ด์š”.

    Seattle Aquarium

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    Tickets:
    Adult ticket is $50, and kids under 3 are free.
    We purchased the annual pass for $145 (covers 2 adults) โ€” and it also gives you 50% off guest tickets, which is honestly a great deal if you go more than twice.

    ์„ฑ์ธ: $50

    3์„ธ ์ดํ•˜ ์•„์ด: ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ

    ์ €ํฌ๋Š” **์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ํŒจ์Šค(Annual Pass)**๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

    • ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ: $145 (์„ฑ์ธ 2๋ช… ํฌํ•จ)
    • ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ 50% ํ• ์ธ ํ˜œํƒ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋„ ๋ณธ์ „ ๋ฝ‘๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ!

    Parking:
    We prepaid online and paid only $12 for 6 hours. The parking lot is located right by Pike Place Market, so it was super convenient.

    ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐ์ œํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    6์‹œ๊ฐ„์— $12๋ฐ–์— ์•ˆ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ฐจ์žฅ์ด Pike Place Market ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์ด๋ผ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿ  New Aquarium Building

    The Seattle Aquarium now has two buildings โ€” the newly built one and the original space.

    The moment we walked into the new building, we were greeted by a massive floor-to-ceiling tank filled with sea creatures. It was dramatic, beautiful, and honestly breathtaking.

    On the second floor, I loved the ergonomic and immersive tank design in the center of the space. There were three big tropical tanks filled with colorful fish and coral-like decorations. The height was perfect for kids โ€” short enough that Leo could watch everything without being held.

    Behind the main wall, there was another giant tank with sharks swimming peacefully. The shark would glide past the window and โ€œsurpriseโ€ all the little kids sitting in front of it. Leo kept squealing every time it came close. It was very cool to see a shark that close.

    There was also a small play area for kids with sea-creature toys and educational displays. Leo sat there for a long time, totally focused.

    ํ˜„์žฌ ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€์€

    1. ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ง€์–ด์ง„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ
    2. ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋„ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ
      ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

    ์ƒˆ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฒœ์žฅ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€์ด ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„์คฌ์–ด์š”.
    ์ •๋ง ์›…์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ์„œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋ง์ด ์•ˆ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ •๋„์˜€์–ด์š”.

    2์ธต ์ค‘์•™์—๋Š” ์•„์ด๋“ค๋„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•œ ๋†’์ด๋กœ ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ์—ด๋Œ€์–ด ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€ 3๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ,
    ํ˜•ํ˜•์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์˜ ์—ด๋Œ€์–ด๋“ค์ด ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ํ—ค์—„์น˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์–ด์š”.
    Leo๋„ ๋†’์ด๊ฐ€ ๋”ฑ ๋งž์•„์„œ ์•ˆ์•„์ค„ ํ•„์š” ์—†์ด ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

    ๋ฒฝ ๋’ค์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์ƒ์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ—ค์—„์น˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€์ด ๋˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”!
    ์ƒ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์œ ์œ ํžˆ ํ—ค์—„์น˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„,
    ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ๋˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ผ์„œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋ฅด๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    Leo๋„ ์ƒ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ์˜ค์ž ๊ณ„์† “์™€์•„์•„!” ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์•‰์•„์„œ ๋†€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์กด๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฌผ ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ต์œก์šฉ ๋ชจํ˜•์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ Leo๊ฐ€ ํ•œ์ฐธ ๋™์•ˆ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.

    ๐Ÿ™ Original Aquarium Building

    After exploring the new building, we headed over to the old one โ€” Iโ€™ve been there before, so I had an idea of what to expect.

    Leoโ€™s favorite, of course, was the touch tide pools, where kids can touch starfish, sea urchins, and ํ•ด์‚ผ. He climbed up and leaned forward so excitedly, saying โ€œ๋˜! ๋˜!โ€ every time he touched something. It was adorable.

    Our favorite was the giant octopus. It was huge โ€” Iโ€™ve never seen an octopus that big in my life. Watching it move slowly with its long eight legs and massive suction cups was mesmerizing. Leo got a little scared and ran away, which honestly made us laugh. ๐Ÿ˜‚

    The first building also had more marine mammals. We watched a giant seal swimming gracefully and some adorable sea otters enjoying their lunch. They were eating big scallops and begging for more โ€” so cute.
    The highlight was the river otter, swimming energetically and coming right up to the glass as if saying hello.

    ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ด€์—๋Š” ๋” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š”. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ํ„ฐ์น˜ ํ’€์ด ์—ญ์‹œ ์ œ์ผ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๋‚˜ ๋ณด๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋“ค – ํ•ด์‚ผ, ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€์‚ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์„ฑ๊ฒŒ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋งŒ์ ธ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ Seal ์ด ์œ ์œ ์ž์  ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๊ณ , ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด sea otters ๊ฐ€ ๋ง›์ž‡๊ฒŒ ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต๋„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ์กฐ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋˜๋ฐ ํ•œ์ž…์— ์ฉ์ฉ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋” ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ๊ฐ•์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” otter ์˜ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด ๋ชจ์Šต. ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ˆ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ์™€์„œ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ๊ฝค ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿ›’ Gift Shop

    Of course, we had to stop by the gift shop before leaving.
    We bought a set of colorful ocean-themed bath toys for Leo, and he loved pointing out each animal he saw earlier in the aquarium.

    ๋‚˜์™€์„œ ๋นผ๋†“์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋…ํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์— ๋“ค๋ ค ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ• ๋งŒํ•œ ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ํ•ด์–‘๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค ํ† ์ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ€์–ด์š”. ๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€์—์„œ ๋ณธ ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋†€๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. Bath Toys ๋กœ ๋”ฑ์ธ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

    ๐Ÿฝ Lunch at Pike Place

    Since the aquarium is located right below Pike Place Market, there are so many food options.

    We went to Mr. Fish, a Fish & Chips place, and everything was delicious โ€” very crispy, very flavorfulโ€ฆ and also very salty ๐Ÿ˜‚ But overall, we enjoyed it.

    ์•„์ฟ ์•„๋ฆฌ์›€์€ ํŒŒ์ดํฌ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ“ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•„๋ž˜์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์˜ต์…˜์ด ์•„์ฃผ ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” MR.FISH๋ผ๋Š” Fish & Chips ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ธํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์–ด๋„ ๋ชจ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ผฐ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‹ค ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์Œ์‹์ด ์ข€ ์ง  ํŽธ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

    Mr. Fish:
    https://share.google/PsKis4XX3Za75um4B

    Le Panier:
    https://share.google/3boZIdYfHSVcMFgjE

    After lunch, we walked through Pike Place Market and stopped by the famous French bakery Le Panier, since there was almost no line. We bought several pastries โ€” their pistachio รฉclair is popular, but my husband loves the lemon tart.

    ๋‹ค ๋จน์€ ํ›„ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ํŒŒ์ดํฌ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ“ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ”„๋ Œ์น˜ ๋นต์ง‘ Le Panier ์— ์ค„์ด ๋ณ„๋กœ ์•ˆ์„œ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ด๋•Œ๋‹ค ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํŽ˜์ด์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ€์–ด์š”. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ”ผ์Šคํƒ€์น˜์˜ค ์—ํด๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ํƒ€๋ฅดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”.

    On our way home, the weather was gray and chilly, and we all felt sleepy and cozy after a full day of exploring. But spending this kind of day together โ€” walking, eating, discovering new things โ€” made me so happy.
    Next time, weโ€™re planning to come back with Leoโ€™s friends too!

    ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ™์ด ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์— ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ, ๋‚ ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ”์›Œ์„œ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋“ฑ๋”ฐ์‹œ๋‹ˆ ๋…ธ๊ณคํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜จ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ™์ด ๋‚˜์™€์„œ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์˜ค๋ ค๊ตฌ์š”.

    ์ฝ์–ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ’™

  • Perfect for the cold weather, heart warming Galbi-tang recipe ๐Ÿฒ

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› Itโ€™s getting cold and rainy here in Seattle, and Iโ€™ve been loving the crisp air and the beautiful autumn leaves.With this weather, Iโ€ฆ

    ๐ŸŽƒ Leoโ€™s First Pumpkin Patch at Carpinito Farm

    Itโ€™s officially pumpkin season in Seattle! ๐Ÿ‚The mornings and evenings are getting chilly, but the daytime still feels warm and cozy. You can see autumn all around โ€” the colorful leaves, crisp air, and that golden sunlight that makes everything feel magical. I love pumpkin season, so we decided to visit Carpinito Brothers Farm inโ€ฆ

    Izakaya Iwanoya โ€“ Our Home Izakaya Party Night ๐Ÿถโœจ

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’› Weโ€ฆ

    A few days ago, I shared a little story on Threads about living with my in-laws.
    I honestly didnโ€™t expect such a warm responseโ€ฆ but so many of you left the kindest comments, and it truly meant a lot to me. ๐Ÿฅน

    ๋ฉฐ์น  ์ „์— ์Šค๋ ˆ๋“œ์— ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ
    ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ๋™ํ–ˆ์–ด. ๐Ÿฅน
    ๋‚ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์ค„ ์ค„ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ์–ด.

    Since so many people were curious, I wanted to share more about what itโ€™s really like to live with my baby boomer in-laws here in the U.S.โ€”
    especially the good parts that make this unique living situation surprisingly special.

    ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„๋ถ€๋จธ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ด๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ์ ๋“ค์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์จ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ด.

    1. Home Maintenance Is Never My Problem

    If something breaks or needs fixing, I literally just say,
    โ€œDad, the light bulb in the hallway went out,โ€
    and by the time I come home from work, itโ€™s already replaced.

    Not only thatโ€”he manages seasonal maintenance, outdoor cleanup, and all those little house tasks I usually wouldnโ€™t even notice until they become a problem.

    Having a handy father-in-law? 10/10 recommend.

    ์ง‘์— ๋ญ ๊ณ ์น  ์ผ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ง๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋!

    โ€œ์•„๋ฒ„๋‹˜, ๋ณต๋„ ์ „๋“ฑ์ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์–ด์š”.โ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถœ๊ทผํ•˜๋ฉด, ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•  ๋•Œ์ฏค์—” ์ด๋ฏธ ์ƒˆ ์ „๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ์•„์ ธ ์žˆ์Œ. ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„ ๋ถ€๋จธ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ผ์ง€์— ํˆด ํ‚ทํŠธ ์ง„์—ดํ•ด๋‘์‹œ๊ณ  ์™ ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์…”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—„์ฒญ ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํ•˜์‹ฌ. ๊ณ„์ ˆ๋ณ„ ์ง‘ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ & ์ฒญ์†Œ๋„ ๋‹ค ์•Œ์•„์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ โ€˜์ง‘์•ˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์ œ๋กœโ€™์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.

    2. Fresh Garden Produce All Spring & Summer

    My father-in-law loves gardening, and every year he fills the backyard with herbs and veggies.

    This year he grew:

    • tomatoes
    • green beans
    • basil
    • thyme
    • rosemary
    • lettuce
    • parsley

    Thereโ€™s something magical about cooking with ingredients that were still growing five minutes ago. It feels like having our own mini farmersโ€™ market.

    ์‹œ์•„๋ฒ„๋‹˜์€ ๊ฐ€๋“œ๋‹์„ ์ •๋ง ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜์…”์„œ, ๋ด„ยท์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด๋ฉด ์ •์›์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์™€ ์•ผ์ฑ„๋ฅผ ํ‚ค์šฐ์…”.

    ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ‚ค์šด ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„:

    • ํ† ๋งˆํ† 
    • ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋นˆ
    • ๋ฐ”์งˆ
    • ํƒ€์ž„
    • ๋กœ์ฆˆ๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ
    • ์ƒ์ถ”
    • ํŒŒ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ

    ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋”ฐ์˜จ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋กœ ์š”๋ฆฌํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ทธ ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์‹ ์„ ํ•จ์€ ์ •๋ง ์ตœ๊ณ ์•ผ. ์•„์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ† ๋งˆํ† ์— ๋ฌผ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํ† ๋งˆํ†  ๊ฐ™์ด ๋”ฐ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํ•™์Šต๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ค์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด.

    3. Home-Cooked Dinners Several Times a Week

    This one is my personal favorite.
    At least three or four nights a week, my father-in-law cooks dinner.

    I come home exhausted from work, open the door, and hear:
    โ€œDinnerโ€™s ready!โ€

    Honestlyโ€ฆ I could cry sometimes.
    Itโ€™s such a gift when youโ€™re juggling work, childcare, and life.

    ์†”์งํžˆ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ œ์ผ ๊ฐ๋™์ ์ด์•ผ. ์—„๋งˆ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ์ง์žฅ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜ํ•œํ…Œ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ธ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ผ.

    ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์— 3~4๋ฒˆ์€ ์‹œ์•„๋ฒ„๋‹˜์ด ์ €๋…์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌธ ์—ด๋ฉด โ€œDinnerโ€™s ready!โ€ ํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์„œ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ๋‚จ…

    4. Holiday Parties Straight Out of a 90s Movie

    Thanksgiving and Christmas in this house are next-level.
    They host these big, warm, classic American holiday parties with family, relatives, and friends.

    You know those 90s holiday movies where the house is full of people, food, laughter, Christmas decor, and cozy chaos?
    Yep. Thatโ€™s exactly what it feels like.

    Every year Iโ€™m reminded how special this tradition is.

    Thanksgiving๊ณผ Christmas๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด ์‹œ๋Œ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํด๋ž˜์‹ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ํฐ ํ™ˆํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์—ด์–ด.

    ๊ฐ€์กฑ, ์นœ์ฒ™, ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค ๋ชจ์ด๊ณ  ์ง‘์€ ๋ฐ˜์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Œ์‹ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋Š์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”โ€ฆ

    ๋”ฑ 90๋…„๋Œ€ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ์˜ํ™” ์† ์žฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๋„ ๋‹ค ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํŒ…๋„ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ . ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ฝ” ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฑฐ๋“ ?

    ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ฐธ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•ด.

    5. My Mother-in-Law Is a Baking Queen

    My MIL bakes like itโ€™s her superpower.

    Seasonal pies, birthday cakes, buttery pastriesโ€ฆ
    and her freshly baked chocolate chip cookies?
    I swear I can inhale five in one sitting.

    She always says she bakes out of love, and you can really feel it.

    ์‹œ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ โ€˜๋ฒ ์ดํ‚น ์žฅ์ธโ€™์ด์•ผ.

    ๊ณ„์ ˆ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ œ์ฒ  ๊ณผ์ผ๋กœ ํŒŒ์ด ๊ตฝ๊ณ , ์ƒ์ผ์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ€์ดํฌ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ,
    ๊ฐ“ ๊ตฌ์šด ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ์นฉ ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋Š”โ€ฆ ์ •๋ง ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๊ฐœ๋„ ๋จน์Œ. ๋‚œ ๋ฒ ์ดํ‚น์„ ํ•ด๋ณด์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—„๋งˆ๋„ ๋ฒ ์ดํ‚น์€ ์•ˆํ•˜์…”์„œ ๊ฐ“ ๊ตฝ๋Š” ๋นต ๋ƒ„์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€๊ฑด์ง€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์•Œ์•˜์Œ… ๋ญ๋“  ๊ฐ“ ๊ตฌ์› ์„ ๋•Œ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด.

    ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ๋“ฌ๋ฟ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ ๋ง›์ด์•ผ.

    ๐ŸŒ™ Living Together Isnโ€™t Always Easy, But It Is Meaningful

    Of course, living with family has its challenges.
    Different habits, different rhythms, generational differencesโ€ฆ

    But there are also so many moments of warmth, comfort, and gratitude woven into our everyday life.

    Living with my in-laws has taught me that family isnโ€™t just about sharing spaceโ€”
    itโ€™s about sharing care, effort, and small gestures that make daily life softer.

    Iโ€™m grateful for them.
    And Iโ€™m grateful I get to share these stories with you. ๐Ÿค

    ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ์ ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ƒํ™œ ํŒจํ„ด์ด๋‚˜ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์ฐจ์ด๋„ ๋А๊ปด์ ธ.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ด์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์„œ
    โ€œ์•„, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋‚˜์˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์ž์ฃผ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ผ.

    ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋„์šฐ๋ ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๊ณ ๋ง™๊ณ , ๋˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋” ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ. ๐Ÿค

    More Story about living with my in-laws are here : Living With My American In-Laws in Seattle: The Realย Story

  • A stylish Night out at La Loba, 1 Hotel in Downtown Seattle

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’› Lastโ€ฆ

    The slower days in BC Vancouver, Canada – Where to eat and what to do.

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› Last weekend, we celebrated Leoโ€™s and my birthday with our friendsโ€™ families in BC Vancouver, Canada. Iโ€™ve been to Vancouver once before andโ€ฆ

    As parents, the space we think about the mostโ€”
    and the space our kids spend the most time inโ€”
    is definitely the playzone.

    Today Iโ€™m sharing the IKEA kidsโ€™ items weโ€™ve been loving,
    plus a few extra pieces that make our play area feel warm, cozy, and functional.
    (All product details are listed below ๐Ÿ‘‡)

    ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„,
    ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—„๋งˆ ์•„๋น ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์“ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„โ€ฆ
    ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•„์ด ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์กด์ด์ฃ .

    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”
    ์•„์ด์ผ€์•„ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ์•„์ดํ…œ + ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์กด ํ…œ๋“ค์„
    ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋ดค์–ด์š”!
    (์‚ฌ์ง„ ์† ๋ชจ๋“  ์ œํ’ˆ ์ •๋ณด ์•„๋ž˜์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” ๐Ÿ‘‡)

    โœจ 1. A Look Into Our Playzone

    This little corner has been with us since my baby was just a few months old.
    We read here, build blocks here, play pretend, have tea partiesโ€ฆ
    and sometimes just sit and chat with Dad.
    Itโ€™s truly the center of our day.

    ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋์„ ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ญ‰ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์˜จ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด์—์š”.
    ์ฑ… ์ฝ๊ณ , ๋ธ”๋ก ๋†€์ดํ•˜๊ณ , ํ‹ฐํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„๋น ๋ž‘ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ โ€ฆ
    ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ค‘ ์ œ์ผ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณณ!

    Hereโ€™s how the space is set up:

    • Teepee Tent โ€” Amazon
    • Fox Plush Rocker โ€” Pottery Barn Kids
    • Rug โ€” IKEA
    • Bunny Table & Chair Set โ€” Etsy
    • Play Kitchen โ€” IKEA SILLTRUT

    Keeping everything in warm wood tones + neutrals has helped the space blend beautifully with the rest of our home while still feeling playful and inviting for our little one.

    ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ + ์šฐ๋“œ ์กฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต์ผํ•ด์ฃผ๋ฉด
    ์ง‘ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ๋ผ์š”.

    โœจ 2. Our Favorite IKEA Kidsโ€™ Items
    โœ”๏ธ SILLTRUT Play Kitchen Set

    One of our most-used toys ever!
    Cooking, pretend play, tea partiesโ€ฆ it grows with your child.
    The grey + wood color combo also makes it really easy to style at home.

    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ฐ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜!
    ์š”๋ฆฌ๋†€์ด, ์—ญํ• ๋†€์ด, ํ‹ฐํŒŒํ‹ฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜ค๋ž˜์˜ค๋ž˜ ํ™œ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด + ์šฐ๋“œ ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด๋ผ ์ธํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์–ด๋„ ๋ง์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œโ™ก

    โœ”๏ธ BERGIG Book Display

    A front-facing bookshelf makes a huge difference.
    It helps little ones choose their own books easily,
    which naturally encourages reading time.

    ์ฑ…์„ ํ‘œ์ง€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ
    ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ฑ… ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ˆ์š”.
    ๋…์„œ ๋ฃจํ‹ด ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ์— ์ •๋ง ํฐ ๋„์›€!

    โœ”๏ธ Mร…LA Easel & Chalkboard

    A classic IKEA item but SO versatile.
    Drawing, sticker time, daily activitiesโ€”and during parties,
    we even use it as a signboard (it was our Izakaya party menu board ๐Ÿ˜‚).

    ์–‘๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์„œ
    ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ, ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค ๋ถ™์ด๊ธฐ, ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์ธ๋ณด๋“œ๋กœ๋„ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฟ€ํ…œ.
    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘ ํŒŒํ‹ฐํ•  ๋•Œ โ€˜IZAKAYAโ€™ ๋ฉ”๋‰ดํŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ™œ์šฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š” ใ…Žใ…Ž

    โœ”๏ธ DUKTIG Tea Party Set

    The colors are adorable, the quality is great,
    and it photographs beautifully!
    Definitely one of those toys that bring as much joy to moms as it does to kids.

    ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
    ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐ์–ด๋„ ์ •๋ง ์˜ˆ์จโ€ฆ
    ์—„๋งˆ ๋งŒ์กฑ๋„ 200% ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    โœ”๏ธ LILLABO Train Set (45 pcs)

    Such a great budget-friendly toy.
    Kids can expand it endlessly like LEGO,
    so it lasts for years.

    ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ ์ตœ๊ณ .
    ๋ ˆ๊ณ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์„œ ์˜ค๋ž˜์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ๋†€๊ธฐ ์ข‹์•„์š”.

    โœจ 4. Styling Tips for a Cozy Kidsโ€™ Play Area
    • Stick to wood, white, and soft pastel tones
    • Choose toys theyโ€™ll use for a long time, not just โ€œfast funโ€
    • Keep shelves at your childโ€™s eye level
    • A rug instantly makes the space warmer and more grounded
    • Just 2โ€“3 intentional pieces can completely transform a kidsโ€™ space
    • ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์€ ์šฐ๋“œ + ํ™”์ดํŠธ + ํŒŒ์Šคํ…”๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‹คํŒจ ์—†์Œ
    • ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ฐ๋„ โ€œ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ๊ตฌ๋งค
    • ์ฑ…์žฅ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์•„์ด ๋ˆˆ๋†’์ด์— ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ
    • ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ ๊น”๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•จ
    • ๋‘์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌํ…œ๋งŒ ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ์•„์ด๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ž˜ ๋†€์•„์š”!
    โœจ 5. Product Links (Ranโ€™s Picks)

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ IKEA

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Amazon

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Pottery Barn Kids

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Etsy

    โœจ Final Thoughts

    A kidsโ€™ playzone doesnโ€™t have to be complicated or expensive.
    With a few well-chosen items,
    you can create a space that feels warm, inviting,
    and perfect for everyday moments with your little one.

    If youโ€™re planning your own kidsโ€™ corner,
    I hope this helps inspire you ๐Ÿค

    ์•„์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊พธ๋ฏธ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„
    ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ž˜ ๊ณ ๋ฅธ ์•„์ดํ…œ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ
    ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ ธ์š”.

    ์ €์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•„์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊พธ๋ฏธ๊ธฐ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ
    ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”๐Ÿค
    ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ๋Œ“๊ธ€๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์•„์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

  • K-Mom Recipe – Mama Noh’s Galbi (Not Khalbi!)

    In Korean culture, food is everything. We say โ€œDid you eat?โ€ instead of โ€œHello.โ€ My mom was the same โ€” she cooked the most amazing meals for our family, three times a day, every single day. And one of her very best recipes was Galbi (๊ฐˆ๋น„, Korean short ribs). Now here I am, living inโ€ฆ

    Double Birthday Fun: Our September Celebration with Wagyu, Galbi & Baby Shark Cake

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’› ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, K-Mom ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ผ์ƒ ์† ์—„๋งˆ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋…น์—ฌ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ๊ณผ ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์†Œ์†Œํ•œ ํ–‰๋ณต์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’› The firstโ€ฆ

    A Summer Family Picnic at Remlinger Farm

    Last Sunday, our family spent the day at Remlinger Farm in Carnationโ€”a nostalgic trip for my husband, whose parents used to take him there for the pumpkin patch when he was little. For my in-laws, this was their first visit back in over twenty years, making the day feel extra special. ์ง€๋‚œ ์ผ์š”์ผ, ์ €ํฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€โ€ฆ

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.

    Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’›

    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›

    I thought Iโ€™d share a little story today about something people always get curious aboutโ€ฆ
    Whatโ€™s it like living with my American in-laws?

    My husband, our two-year-old, and I have been living with my in-laws in Seattle for almost two years now.
    Whenever I tell people this, the first reaction is always:
    โ€œHow do you live together? Is it okay? Isnโ€™t it hard?โ€

    And honestly?
    Itโ€™s been much better than people assume โ€” surprisingly peaceful, respectful, and even warm.

    A quick note:
    My in-laws are fourth-generation Japanese American.
    (They donโ€™t speak Japanese โ€” theyโ€™re fully Americanized and speak only English.)
    And maybe because of that, they truly respect boundaries.
    They never interfere with our parenting, our routines, or our personal life.

    In factโ€ฆ the pros are actually pretty amazing.

    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ œ! โ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์‹œ๋Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด๋–ค๊ฐ€์š”?โ€ ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค ํ•ด.

    ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€์—์„œ ๋‚จํŽธ, ๋‘ ์‚ด ์•„์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ๋Œ์•„์™€:

    โ€œํ—‰, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„? ํž˜๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์•„?โ€
    โ€œ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ด์•„??โ€

    ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉดโ€ฆ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด์ข‹๊ฒŒ 2๋…„์งธ ์ž˜ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.

    ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ 4์„ธ๋Œ€(Japanese American 4th Gen). ์ผ๋ณธ์–ด๋Š” ๋ชปํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์˜์–ด๋งŒ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์™„์ „ American ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด๋ผ ์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ์ด๋‚˜ ์œก์•„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ„์„ญ์ด ์—†์–ด.

    ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์žฅ์ ์ด ๊ฝค ๋งŽ๋‹ค!

    โœจ The Pros of Living With My U.S. Baby Boomer In-Laws ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„๋ถ€๋จธ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ์žฅ์ 
    1. Rent-Free Living (The Ultimate Benefit)

    In Seattle, this is an absolute life-changer.
    Weโ€™ve been able to save so much and reduce financial stress.

    ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋ ŒํŠธ ์—†์ด ์‚ฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ง„์งœ ์ธ์ƒ ์น˜ํŠธํ‚ค.

    2. My Father-in-Law Cooks Dinner 3โ€“4 Times a Week

    Heโ€™s a great cook, too.
    Coming home after work to hear โ€œDinnerโ€™s ready!โ€ feels like a small miracle on busy days.

    ์š”๋ฆฌ๋„ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ํ•˜์…”! ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•ด์„œ โ€œDinnerโ€™s ready!โ€ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ํ–‰๋ณต๊ฐ ํญ๋ฐœ.

    3. Free Babysitting โ€” Occasionally, But Perfectly Timed

    Sometimes he and my mother-in-law encourage my husband and me to go out for a date night.
    They happily watch our toddler.
    Itโ€™s priceless.

    ๊ฐ€๋” ๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋‹ค๋…€์˜ค๋ผ๊ณ  ์•„์ด๋„ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ฌ. ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์—†์ด ๋งก๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋งˆ์Œ ํŽธํ•จ.

    4. They Constantly Gift Toys, Books, and Clothes

    My in-laws LOVE their grandchild.
    The level of spoilingโ€ฆ honestly adorable.

    ์†์ฃผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ์ •๋ง ๋„˜์น˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“คโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ’›

    5. Once a Week, They Pick Up Our Toddler From Daycare

    For working parents, this is huge.
    It gives us a bit of breathing room in the weekly chaos.

    ์›Œํ‚น๋ง˜ยท์›Œํ‚น๋Œ€๋””์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๊ฑด ์ง„์งœ ํฐ ๋„์›€!

    6. Our Child Is Emotionally Thriving

    With so much love and attention around him, you can literally see the emotional security growing.

    ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋“ฌ๋ฟ ๋ฐ›๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์ •์„œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ๊ฒŒ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ผ ์ •๋„.

    ๐Ÿค Of Course, There Are Some Downsides Too
    1. They Love Watching TV

    Which means the little one ends up being around screens more than weโ€™d like.
    Weโ€™re actively working on reducing it though!

    ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์š”์ฆ˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•ด์„œ ๋งŽ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ์ค‘!

    2. My Mother-in-Law Is a Baking Queen

    Cookies, pies, cakesโ€ฆ
    The house always smells like butter and sugar. And yes, we all eat more sweets than we should.
    No regrets ๐Ÿ˜‚

    ํŒŒ์ด, ์ผ€์ดํฌ, ์ฟ ํ‚คโ€ฆ ๋‹ฌ๋‹ฌํ•œ ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์œ ํ˜น์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ง‘์•ˆ์— ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•จ ๐Ÿ˜‚

    ๐ŸŒ™ Final Thoughts

    Is it as comfortable as living with my own parents? Of course not.

    But for a young family raising a toddler in the U.S., the support, love, and stability we receive from my in-laws are truly invaluable.

    Living together isnโ€™t always easy โ€” but for us, it has been meaningful, supportive, and surprisingly full of joy.

    Iโ€™m grateful for this season of life. And if youโ€™re curious about anything else, feel free to ask. ๐Ÿค

    ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์นœ์ •๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๋งŒํผ ํŽธํ•  ์ˆœ ์—†์–ด. ์ƒํ™œ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ , ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์ฐจ์ด๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ .

    ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์•„์ด ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ์ด ์ •๋„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ •๋ง ํฐ ์ถ•๋ณต์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋А๊ปด.

    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด์•ผ.

    ํ˜น์‹œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด ๐Ÿค

  • Fun parks to play with toddlers in Kirkland

    Leo, my almost 2-year-old, goes to daycare during the day, and one of my favorite little routines is taking him to the park after I pick him up. I just love watching him run around and enjoy himselfโ€”it feels like pure joy. I also try to explore different parks so he can have new littleโ€ฆ

    Anniversary dinner at Butcher’s Table in Seattle

    It was our 3rd anniversary on August 6th, so we decided to treat ourselves to a fancy dinnerโ€”something we hadnโ€™t done in a while. With a toddler at home, date nights are rare since finding a babysitter isnโ€™t easy. Thatโ€™s why this night out felt extra special. We chose The Butcherโ€™s Table, one of theโ€ฆ

    Birthday party at the beach house in Kirkland

    I went to my beautiful friend Cassieโ€™s birthday party in Kirkland, and it was such a perfect day. The party was at her sisterโ€™s gorgeous beach-front house, and the weather was sunny and warm โ€” just right for enjoying the view and soaking up the sun. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ง, ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ ์บ์‹œ(Cassie)์˜ ์ƒ์ผํŒŒํ‹ฐ์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์–ด์š”. ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ปคํด๋žœ๋“œ์—โ€ฆ

    Starbucks just dropped the cutest new merch โ€”
    I couldnโ€™t resist, so I got a few pieces myself. ๐ŸคŽ
    The Hello Kitty items were already gone (of course ๐Ÿฅฒ),
    but these little bear cups are adorable.

    ์š”์ฆ˜ ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค ์‹ ์ƒ ๊ตฟ์ฆˆ๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์™”๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š” ๐ŸคŽ
    ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ Get!
    ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ—ฌ๋กœํ‚คํ‹ฐ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ํ’ˆ์ ˆ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๐Ÿฅฒ
    ๊ณฐ๋Œ์ด ์ปต๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์—ฌ์›Œ์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ƒ์ผ ์„ ๋ฌผ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณจ๋ž์–ด์š”.

    I actually picked them up as a birthday gift for a friend โ€”
    and I paired them with one of my favorite things ever: a Morning Journal.

    ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ดํ…œ,
    ๋ชจ๋‹ ์ €๋„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ ๋ฌผํ–ˆ์–ด. โ˜€๏ธ

    Lately, Iโ€™ve been loving how actress Lee Cheong-Ah shares her morning journaling routine in her vlogs.
    It made me smile โ€” because I do the same!
    Just 5 minutes every morning and evening:
    writing down what Iโ€™m grateful for, and how I want to spend my day.
    It really changes the tone of the day. ๐ŸŒค

    ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ์ด์ฒญ์•„๋‹˜ ๋ธŒ์ด๋กœ๊ทธ์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋‹ ์ €๋„์„ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ดœํžˆ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์šด ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ์ง€.
    ๋‚˜๋„ ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจยท์ €๋… 5๋ถ„์”ฉ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ผ๊ณผ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ ์–ด๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฃจํ‹ด์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ .
    ์งง์ง€๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋‹ค์žก๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ผ. ๐Ÿ‚

    ๐Ÿ–Š The Five Minute Journal https://amzn.to/4ic9epN
    ๐Ÿ–Š Gratitude Journal https://amzn.to/4pdp2dY

    Both are simple but powerful โ€” a perfect combo gift with a cozy Starbucks cup.
    Because honestly, a cute mug + mindful journaling = best self-care routine ever. ๐ŸคŽ

    ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค ์ปต + ๋ชจ๋‹ ์ €๋„ =
    ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ข‹์•„์ง€๋Š” ์กฐํ•ฉ ๐ŸคŽ
    ์š”์ฆ˜์—” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋‚จ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.