Category: Mom Journal

  • 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 in…

  • 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’› We…

  • 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’› Last…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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—…

  • 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 of…

  • Expect Unexpected.

    One thing Iโ€™ve learned after becoming a mom is this: always expect the unexpected. This morning, I dropped Leo off at daycare like usual. But not even three minutes later, his teacher came rushing out to tell me that his left eye looked slightly pink, and they were concerned he might have pink eye. Oh…