The Slower Days

Snapshots of life, motherhood and the little things

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 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

    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

    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:
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    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’™

  • 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

    My Favorite At-Home Nail Kit ๐Ÿ’•

    Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์™„์ „ ๋น ์ง„ ํ™ˆ ๋„ค์ผ ํ‚คํŠธ ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿป I found the perfect mom-friendly nail kit โ€” and honestly, everyone thinks itโ€™s my real nails. ๐Ÿ˜‚Every time I wear them, someone says, โ€œYour nails look so pretty!โ€ ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ถ™์ด๋ฉด ์ง„์งœ ๋‹ค๋“ค โ€œ๋„ค์ผ ์–ด๋””์„œ ํ–ˆ์–ด?โ€ ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด!๊ฐ€์งœ ๋„ค์ผ์ธ๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ๋ป์„œโ€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

  • Trader Joeโ€™s Mini Tote Hype & My Little Haul Instead

    Everyoneโ€™s been showing off their Trader Joeโ€™s mini tote bags today โ€” so of course, I went out after dinner to see if I could grab one too. ๐Ÿ˜…But apparently my neighborhood moms are on another levelโ€ฆ totally sold out! Not even one left. So instead, I picked up a few other little treasures toโ€ฆ

    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

    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

    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”!

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 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 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

    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.

  • 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

    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

    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 inside green neighborhoods, Iโ€™m reminded that we made the right choice.
    Itโ€™s so peaceful here โ€” clean air, tall trees, quiet skies. Every moment outside feels like a small gift.

    ๋™๋„ค ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ์ˆจ์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ˆฒ ์† ์™•๊ตญ๊ฐ™์€ ๋†€์ดํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์‹ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋›ฐ๋…ธ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด,
    โ€˜์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ด ๋งž์•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€™ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์š”.

    ๐Ÿ“ Dragon Park, Mercer Island
    Google Maps

    Itโ€™s these simple afternoons that make me love where we live even more. ๐ŸคŽ

    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์˜คํ›„๋“ค์ด ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.. ๐ŸคŽ

  • 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

    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

    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 in the same tone for a clean, matching look,
    or drape it loosely over a chunky sweater for that relaxed winter vibe.

    ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์ž์ผ“์ด๋ž‘ ํ†ต์ผํ•ด์„œ ์…‹ํŠธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งค์น˜ํ•ด๋„ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ณ ,
    ๋‹ˆํŠธ ์Šค์›จํ„ฐ ์œ„์— ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์ค˜๋„ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๋กœ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์™„์„ฑโœจ

    I saw a similar coat style on ZARA, and now I canโ€™t stop thinking about itโ€ฆ maybe itโ€™s time to try it on. ๐Ÿซถ ์š”์ฆ˜ ZARA์—์„œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ฝ”ํŠธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚˜์™”๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ โ€” ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ž…์–ด๋ณด๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค ์‹ถ์€ ๐Ÿ’ญ
    โ†’ zara.com/us/en

    Little details like this always make winter dressing more fun โ€”
    simple, warm, and quietly elegant.

    ๊ฒจ์šธ์—” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ๋„
    ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ฃฉ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ์ฐธ ์ข‹์•„. โ„

  • 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

    Girls night out at El Encanto, Kirkland

    ๋ณดํ†ต ๋‚˜์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์š”.์•„์นจ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„, ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ์›์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ถœ๊ทผ.์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ ํ‡ด๊ทผ ํ›„ ์•„์ด ํ”ฝ์—… โ†’ ๊ณต์›์—์„œ ๋†€๊ธฐ โ†’ ์ €๋… ์‹์‚ฌ โ†’ ๋ชฉ์š• โ†’ ์žฌ์šฐ๊ธฐ.๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ๋‚˜ ๋จผ์ € ์ž ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒจํ„ด์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ โ€˜์•„์ด ์ค‘์‹ฌโ€™์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑด ์ข…์ข… ์žŠ๊ณ  ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์ „,โ€ฆ

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

    ์š”์ฆ˜ ์™„์ „ ๋น ์ง„ ํ™ˆ ๋„ค์ผ ํ‚คํŠธ ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿป

    I found the perfect mom-friendly nail kit โ€” and honestly, everyone thinks itโ€™s my real nails. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    Every time I wear them, someone says, โ€œYour nails look so pretty!โ€

    ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ถ™์ด๋ฉด ์ง„์งœ ๋‹ค๋“ค โ€œ๋„ค์ผ ์–ด๋””์„œ ํ–ˆ์–ด?โ€ ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด!
    ๊ฐ€์งœ ๋„ค์ผ์ธ๋ฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ๋ป์„œ ๋งค๋ฒˆ ๋†€๋žŒ ๐Ÿคญ

    These press-on nails are a total lifesaver for busy moms.
    No appointments, no drying time โ€” just stick them on, and youโ€™re done.
    They last around two weeks, and the colors look so natural and elegant.

    ๋ฐ”์œ ์—„๋งˆ๋“คํ•œํ…Œ ๋”ฑ์ด์•ผ โ€”
    ์ƒต ๊ฐˆ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์—†์–ด๋„ 5๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ๋!
    ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ถ™์ด๋ฉด 2์ฃผ ์ •๋„ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ณ , ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ๋„ ์„ธ๋ จ๋˜๊ณ  ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ.

    โœจ My favorites:

    Both are around $7.99 on Amazon, and they seriously look like salon nails.
    Itโ€™s such an easy little joy โ€” the kind of small self-care that makes mom life a bit prettier. ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿป

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์—์„œ ์•ฝ $7.99 ์ •๋„๋ฉด ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ ,
    ์ง„์งœ ์ƒต์—์„œ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์žฌ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ผ.
    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ž‘์€ ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ ๐Ÿ’•

  • The slower days in Hawaii – where to go in Waikiki, Honolulu and North shore, Oahu.

    ๐Ÿ“ธ๐Ÿ–๏ธ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค, ํ˜ธ๋†€๋ฃฐ๋ฃจ, ๋…ธ์Šค์‡ผ์–ด์—์„œ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ€์•ผํ•  ๊ณณ๋“ค, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ๋“ค ์ถ”์ฒœ – ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš ์งœ๋Š” ํŒ ๐Ÿ“ธ Places to Visit ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Beaches ํ•ด๋ณ€๊ฐ€ Waikiki Beach (Kid-Friendly) ์™€์ดํ‚คํ‚ค ํ•ด๋ณ€ If you’re staying in Waikiki, this beach is right at your doorstep. I loved the beach in front of Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa โ€” itโ€™s protectedโ€ฆ

    Summer Playdates & Sweet moment at Bellevue Downtown park

    Summer Playdates & Sweet Moments at Bellevue Downtown Park This morning started bright and early โ€” I was up before Leo, packing a little snack bag for his playdate with his friend, Sena. I kept it simple and fun: homemade inarizushi, fresh fruits, Go-Gurt, overnight oats with berries (a.k.a. our “mush”), and a handful ofโ€ฆ

    Everyoneโ€™s been showing off their Trader Joeโ€™s mini tote bags today โ€” so of course, I went out after dinner to see if I could grab one too. ๐Ÿ˜…
    But apparently my neighborhood moms are on another levelโ€ฆ totally sold out! Not even one left.

    So instead, I picked up a few other little treasures to try:

    ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‹ค๋“ค ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด๋”์กฐ ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ† ํŠธ๋ฐฑ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ด์„œ, ๋‚˜๋„ ์ €๋… ๋งˆ์‹ค ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ฐพ์•„๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ โ€”
    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋™๋„ค ์ง„์งœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์น˜์—ดํ•จใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹ ์™„.์ „. ํ’ˆ.์ ˆ. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

    ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋Œ€์‹  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ถ”์ฒœํ…œ๋“ค ๋ฐ๋ ค์™”์Œ ๐Ÿ‘‡

    ๐Ÿฅค Propolis Shot โ€“ $1.99
    Leoโ€™s daycare teacher swears by this for early cold symptoms โ€” just a little sip before it hits. Letโ€™s see if it really works!
    ๋ ˆ์˜ค ๋ฐ์ด์ผ€์–ด ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜ ์ถ”์ฒœํ…œ! ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์šด ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋จน์ด๋ฉด ํšจ๊ณผ ์ข‹๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋‘ ๋ณ‘ ์‚ฌ๋ด„. ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์€์ง€ ์จ๋ณด๊ณ  ํ›„๊ธฐ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„๊ฒŒ.

    ๐ŸŒ™ Retinol Night Serum โ€“ $9.99
    My coworker recommended it and said itโ€™s surprisingly good for the price. Iโ€™ll test it this week and share how it feels.

    ์ฝ”์›Œ์ปค ์ถ”์ฒœ โ€” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ ˆํ‹ฐ๋†€ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฝค ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋Œ€์„œ 1๋ฒˆ ์จ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ.
    ์จ๋ณด๊ณ  ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฐ˜์‘ ํ›„๊ธฐ ๋‚จ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ๐Ÿ™‚

    โ˜€๏ธ Daily Facial Sunscreen – $8.99
    Mine ran out, so I grabbed this gel-type one thatโ€™s supposed to blend really well under makeup. Iโ€™ll try it tomorrow morning and report back.

    ์„ ํฌ๋ฆผ์ด ๋‹ค ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ์„œ ์ ค ํƒ€์ž…์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ํ”ฝ. ํ™”์žฅ ์ž˜ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์žฌ๊ตฌ๋งค๊ฐ ๐Ÿ‘€ ์จ๋ณด๊ณ  ํ›„๊ธฐ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„๊ฒŒ!

    Sometimes a mini shopping trip like this totally makes my evening. Even when the tote bag hunt fails, a few new skincare finds can still lift your mood. ๐Ÿ’›

    ํ† ํŠธ๋ฐฑ์€ ๋ชป ์ƒ€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์†Œ์†Œํ•œ ํ•˜์šธ์ด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ์ง€ โ˜•๏ธ
    ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋…์—” ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์‹คํŒจ! ๐Ÿ’›