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Charlie and Olive got their second doze of Pfizer yesterday! We had been looking forward to this day for so long and can all breathe a little sigh of relief. We couldn’t have had a better experience at CVS, and I am so grateful for free and easy access to covid vaccines that we wouldn’t […]

Do you do advent calendars with your kids? Advent calendars are a fun little surprise every morning leading up to Christmas day that my kids really love. We typically do the Christmas book advent, but we’re visiting family for the holidays this year so I had to come up with something different. My kids are getting older, […]

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving! I cooked Alton Brown’s brined turkey recipe yesterday, and it came out perfectly. I have a lot of leftover turkey, so I might make Alton Brown’s bird to the last drop soup. What do you typically do with leftover turkey? 10 Easy Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes

I recently realized that this is Charlie’s last year of being little, and it was a bittersweet realization. On the one hand, I’m so proud of the human that he has become; he has matured so much the past couple years. On the other hand, the days of him relying on me for everything are […]

We’ve been living on an island in the Philippines for 6 years, and my kids have visited the US every year since we left (except 2020), but they still marvel at all the ways things are different in the US. They love to point them out so I wrote up a list. These are some […]

On October 12th, I filed for divorce. This was a long time coming, but the end was abrupt and traumatizing. My (soon to be ex) husband had been changing for years. He went from kind and fun to sullen and mean. I kept trying to do more, to be more, to achieve more in the […]

I need your help! I’m hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, and I’ve only cooked Thanksgiving dinner a handful of times in my entire life. When we lived in New York, we always visited my family for Christmas and not Thanksgiving, and my Korean family didn’t really celebrate Thanksgiving growing up. But we’re all together this […]