Category: Mom Journal

  • 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 inside…

  • 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 to…

  • 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’›…

  • 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’›…

  • 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€…