THROUGH THE BROWN EYES OF A CANADIAN-KOREAN WOMAN
It’s so hard to get a good family photo with the kids. We wanted to get a nice family photo for the Christmas cards that we were going to send out. What a big fail. We wanted everyone to look nice and have a big smile in the photo. But it seems like that’s not gonna happen.
All families have some kind of Christmas photo tradition. Whether it’s going to the mall to get pictures done with Santa Clause or getting pictures taken by the tree or fireplace. Every family has a Christmas picture tradition. Ours started just a little after Andrea was born back home (in Canada). Our close friends gave us the gift of a photo session at their house as our Christmas present and
First snow. Tyler’s first snow experience. First snow at the new apartment.
Over the past few weeks, the Ministry of Education in Korea announced the corruption of private kindergartens located in the major cities of Korea. They intentionally (and I say this “intentionally” part with emphasis because I personally do believe that they are doing this for a reason and a purpose) released a list of private kindergartens in Seoul and other major cities of Korea that stated violations and false use
So last Friday I was lucky enough to participate and attend the opening of a SLIME cafe. This SLIME CAFE thing is so BIG in Korea right now. Even adults go in and play with slime for an hour. The concept of the CAFE is that you make your own slime, add the desired parts and sprinkles. Then play with it and take it home when you’re done. I thought
It’s not every day you get to spend time with family. And by “family” I don’t mean, your children, husband or wife. I mean people like your father-in-law’s brother. Or your mother’s sisters and their children. I don’t get to see my cousins as much as I want to here in Korea. We’re just all too damn busy for everything. But when it comes to ChuSeok, the Korean Thanksgiving holiday,
This is where we stayed in Jeju. It was a really nice, kid-friendly and clean house. It was about 40 minutes away from the airport but it was close to the beach and nice. The kids really loved it. We didn’t have to worry about the kids getting bored or anything while staying in. The best part was that the pool was sheltered, meaning it was indoors (well, it
Back in August, Kaden and I decided to take a summer trip somewhere with ALL THE KIDS. Yeap. ALL THREE. There were lots and lots of places we narrowed down to. First we really wanted to go to Japan but because of the earthquakes and the thought of using public transportation during the trip just wasn’t going to work so we crossed it out. Then there was Austria. I always,
