We got our Christmas tree today and Kids already wrapped and put our presents under the tree!

Chloe made place cards for everyone with leftover cranberries

Roasted Beet Salad with ricotta cheese sprinkled with pomegranate. So festive!

Cranberry sauce

Sausage Pear stuffing

Ta Da~ The turkey was juicy and tender and delicious. My guests kept laughing at me every time I praise my own food.

Thank you Sang family for joining us!

We also had the most adorable fluffy guest.

Chloe and Andrew’s collaborative “Apple Pie” hee hee

This year, we decided to stay home and cook a Thanksgiving meal together as a family. Chloe and Andrew are making an apple pie together… 

These two are talking more than working…

And Shane also helped making truffle oil garlic mashed potatoes.

I got this spice mix from Williams Sonoma and brined the 13lbs Turkey for 48 hours. We’ll see!

I try to make hot lunches for the kids every morning. I guess growing up in Korea that’s what my mom used to do for me and my brother until we graduated middle school…I think about her every time I’m packing kids lunches…

Chili

Grilled chicken sandwich with sautéed onions and mushrooms

Penne Vodka

My breakfast, lunch, kids lunches ready to go!

Shane’s doodle while waiting for dinner

Kids have been taking pottery classes after school and here are some projects this fall.

We had a family of 5 over for a sleepover last night. While kids played at home with a babysitter, we adults got to go out to a nice relaxing dinner. Then after kids went to bed, (oh I don’t know like around 10pm), we stayed up late chatting while sipping Irish coffee.

Bruch the next morning

What a great time we had! Thanks for coming over Lee family~

In celebration of Halloween, my yogi friend/coworker and I went to a blacklight yoga class at Pure West in the city. It was so much fun!

I started taking yoga classes last year in september and I feel like my body has changed since then. I have issues in my neck down to my lower back for many years and honestly, my pain has been significantly better if any and it’s because of yoga! I highly recommend to all of my friends and I can’t wait to introduce Chloe to it. My big concern with yoga before I started was spiritual aspect to it. You are told to “meditate” and empty out and clear your mind and I don’t agree with some of yogi beliefs. I learned to use the meditation time to pray to God and ask the Holy spirit to “fill me” instead of emptying out my mind. It also helped that I found a really great contemporary flow yoga practice in LT gym. I love it!

Vases from Nice

Macaron soaps

Small turtle on the left & the green Fiat from Eze

Shane’s collection of souvenirs on his shelf

Yellow rabbit dish

Clothes & a bag

Beaded doll necklaces

Table cloth from Saint Paul

Elephant murano glass from Venice

Chloe’s pick from Venice: Venetian Mask