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The summer sale season is kicking into full gear, with the Nordstrom Anniversary sale starting up, and the Zara sale still going on, there have been too many things on my wish list for the girls! Here are some of my summer favorites: 1) Knotted cut work top  | 2) Tie waist shirt | 3) Striped fabric shirt  | 4) Printed top  […]

Last Sunday we took our girls to see Finding Dory at the theater. Our younger daughter Lila, who just turned five, specifically had been requesting to see this movie for weeks. I had a couple fleeting thoughts about whether it might be too emotional for her from the reviews I read, but we decided to take […]

If you thought being a helicopter parent or tiger mom was embarrassing, what about being compared to a snowplow? A snowplow parent is apparently someone who pushes all obstacles out of their child’s way to make the path smoother for them. Well, a few big and small things in the past month have caused me to reflect […]

A couple weeks ago, Mr. Juice went out of town for a work trip. He was only gone for three days, but you would think that it was forever for the girls. Of course, I’ll admit it’s gotten a million times easier to take care of the kids now that they are 4 and 7 […]

Two years ago, when HJ was five years old and in kindergarten, she started private occupational therapy at the recommendation of a developmental pediatrician we had seen. We had initially taken HJ to the developmental pediatrician for a formal neuropsychological evaluation. At the time, she was receiving special education services from our school district, but her IEP […]

This is a question that I seem to struggle with on a daily, if not what feels like a moment-to-moment basis sometimes! It’s not just about work-life balance. The question seems to come into play in all areas of our family life these days. Can the kids squeeze in one more activity without being over scheduled? Can we […]

Growing up, my sister and I spent most of our summers riding our bikes to the pool, going swimming with our friends, and maybe taking a couple summer school classes. I don’t know if summer school was the norm just because we were Asian and that’s what most of our Asian friends did during the […]