Dec 13, 2012  •  In Baby, Funny, Parenting, Personal
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Christmas Tree Decorating Guidelines

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What’s that you say? There are only a dozen days left before Christmas and we have yet to put up our tree? Please. That’s nothing to this family of procrastinators.
And just in case there are others out there in the same boat — Bueller? Hello? I know we can’t be the only ones! — who may need some guidance on the best way to decorate the tree based on their children’s ages, here’s an instructional from the ever-so-delightful How to Be a Dad.

J and I have talked about dragging our tree out of storage and getting it set up, preferably…

Nov 27, 2012  •  In Aerin, Claire, Parenting
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Claire’s First Lie

A few days ago, Claire told her first lie.
She and Aerin were playing together when Claire got angry over something, grabbed the toy in Aerin’s hand, and threw it.
And when J approached her to remind her that she shouldn’t throw things, she outright told him that it was Aerin who threw the toy!
Both J and I had witnessed the entire event from start to finish. When J asked her, “Did you mean that you threw the toy?” She denied it and told him once again that her little sister had done it.
We were incredulous!
I told Claire…

Nov 24, 2012  •  In Aerin, Baby, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal
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The Baby of the Family

Ever since Aerin got sick last week, she has been super SUPER clingy to me. Before her illness, she was a pretty independent little girl. Now she needs to be held all the time — only by me, no less, and starts screaming her head off if she can’t see me.
Even her two favorite people after me, her halmeh (my mother) and yeye (J’s father) have been having trouble calming her down.
I know that this is probably just a phase. It might even be a combination of several factors, such as teething or reaching a new milestone (she…

Nov 7, 2012  •  In Aerin, Korean, Parenting, Personal
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Aerin’s Dol

When I had written a short update on the morning of Aerin’s dol, I had been worried about Hurricane Sandy’s impact on the party.
But while we could not hold my younger daughter’s first birthday at a banquet hall as we had originally planned…
And more than half of our guests could not make it due to the impending storm…
(Together with the fact that we ended the party early in hopes that everyone will get home safely…)
We ended up having a great time. 
First, the decorations. I only decorated our dining area (we don’t exactly have a dining…

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