After baking and setting up for the party all day, I got cleaned up to go to Andrew’s company holiday party tonight. Kids are having separate sleepovers tonight at their friends, (thanks to the Lee family & the Gr**wald family!) Andrew and I are off to the city for the rest of the afternoon!
Ready for some cocktails!
Andrew and I decided to golf on the spur of the moment.
I didn’t do well. My first time. 😛 But I enjoyed being out on this gorgeous afternoon. I can see why he loves it so much.
Shane’s going to Andrew work today!
It was my birthday last week and as a present to myself, I got a brand new root canal. Yay.
I think I was just so tired from travels and work, my old root canal that I had for years got infected. Long story short, I ended up in ER last weekend, then had to stay in bed for a few days. I was in a lot of pain but at least I got to spend a nice and quiet week at home… Thank you Usha and Maude for the beautiful flowers!
Every morning, I look forward to getting a latte first thing.
Starbucks lady: Your name please?
Me: HaaaeeeeWon
Starbucks lady: … ?
Me: H. A. E. W. O. N.
Starbucks lady: …
Me: Just write H W
Starbucks lady: OK.
Uh…
Happy coworkers.
After work, I also got to enjoy a little R&R…
Luckily we got some snow last night and looks like we’ll have a good day skiing!
Unfortunately I was still feeling sick so I volunteered as a designated babysitter in case any little ones needed to take breaks in between…
This morning, I came bright and early for our team building/trend track day, visiting museums and doing all kinds of cool stuff. We have an amazing fun day planned ahead so I was super excited. Then I happened to pass by 9/11 Memorial site… I couldn’t believe it’s my first time being here…ever… As I was passing by I felt the heavy emotions and uncontrollable sadness, and of course, I began crying like I always do. I’m a crier… With all these crazy things we hear on the news these days, I was just overwhelmed … After a few minutes of pause and a prayer, I gathered myself and moved on. I am thankful for the faith I have and that I was reminded of God’s providence… in the end, no matter how our lives end here on earth, we will be with our creator and we will have the final victory against evil…
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!
Bryant Park on a summer night
Andrew and I had some time to walk around in the city before we headed over to our friend’s birthday party. It’s been a while it’s just the two of us here… It was nice.
Then we met up with our friends and sang our hearts out~
Wife, Mother, jewelry designer &
graphic designer /Creative Director, I am HaeWon Cadence Ryu. This is a glimpse into my life’s blessings, passion and inspiration.
This blog came to fruition after I began motherhood; I wanted to be able to capture every millestone of my two beautiful children - Chloe & Shane as they journey through their early years. Since the launch of my online jewelry site, cadencelee.com, I’ve come face-to-face with having to juggle multiple roles. As a result, I have decided to feature some of my designs and inspiration alongside postings of my precious family. For me, this is the perfect medium of work-life balance.
