Author: Ran Noh

  • 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 and…

  • ๐Ÿ‚ Fall 2025 Mood Board + Outfit Inspiration – It’s already cold outside in 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’› Just like that, itโ€™s fall in Seattle! Summer left so abruptly without even saying goodbye. I can feel the crisp morning air…

  • 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 in…

  • 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 first…

  • 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€…

  • 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 little…

  • 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 the…

  • 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—…

  • 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 ์ „,…

  • 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 protected…