We were extremely fortunate in the wake of Sandy. While the vast majority of our friends who reside in the area lost electricity, water, or both (a big thanks to social media for keeping everyone updated), we made it through the hurricane without much of a fuss, and are happy to report that we, as well as our family who live in the area, are all safe and sound. Just how lucky were we? Our damage report only consists of two rooms that lost electricity (yeah...
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The house is clean, the decorations are up, the food is ready, and I'm about to go wash up and put on my hanbok. But the emails and text messages have been arriving since last night. "Our neighborhood has been evacuated...
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I have a new obsession. (And if you're friends with me on Facebook, you probably already know what I'm talking about.) It is a Korean drama called 응답하라 1997, or Answer Me 1997. As the title suggests, the show revolves around a group of friends who graduated high school in 1997. The story unfolds through a series of flashbacks as they attend their 15-year reunion — and with the majority of the 16-part series taking place during the last decade of the 20th century, you can't help but be taken back by the numerous 90s references. If you are a Korean in your early 30s, you are sure to love this drama as much as I do. You would also fall hard if you're familiar...
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So remember how we were planning on throwing a big celebration for Aerin's dol? And how we had even booked a fancy schmancy banquet room for the party? Well, that went out the window...
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Claire’s 2nd Birthday:
We celebrated Claire’s second birthday with a medium-sized bash at our place. The theme of the party? Kai-Lan, of course! And since I don’t have the time to do DIY projects these days, I enlisted the help of the lovely Miriam of LimoncelloSTYLE to create this fantastic banner:
More pictures of the party to come in a future post…stay tuned!
Claire’s favorite birthday present has to be her new toy kitchen, courtesy of her halbeh. She cooks us breakfast every morning and even feeds Aerin pretend food.
Learning/Milestones:
Claire has begun speaking in semi-complex sentences, adding adjectives and even adverbs to her speech. I remember how I was so proud of her when she began speaking Korean in 3-word sentences, and when I told J about it, he replied, “So? She’s been speaking Chinese in 5-word sentences for weeks.” 👿 FINE THEN!