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This family photo sesh is finally gonna make me do it: I’m printing and framing all our favorites, 2024 is the year this time I just know it!! 🤣
Wishing you a Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a huge thank you for sharing your time and big hearts with us. Have a restful break full of joy and peace 🖤
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Christmas around the house 🎄 Really feeling it this year how it’s all about the process, being in quiet reflection, revisiting all the memories tied to every object, traditions and time spent together… This season always reminds me of a time when I dreamed of life looking the way it does now, to slow down and think about how we got here, and it makes me weep with gratitude.
Orion’s room is up on the blog! Every single day I’m in here playing, reading, and begging Orion to go to bed, so I’ve spent more than enough hours in here to say that I wouldn’t change anything about it. Color drenching the space in green made it SO cozy like a cocoon, all the shelves and bins freed storage in other parts of our kid dominated home, and Orion + everyone loooves playing in here. Linked everything in here that I could at homeyohmy.com
I only started this tradition last year of photographing Orion on his birthday with a number balloon of his age and already there’s a marked difference this year, namely his boundless energy and inability to stay still 😆 Everyone reminds you that two is “terrible” and we certainly faced challenges that helped me understand why, but I also saw him burst out of his shell and grow more into himself, I got to learn a lot about what he likes, dive into the magic of childhood fantasies with him, sing new songs and read new books together, hear him say sweet and funny things daily, watch him be a loving big brother, and every new version of him continues to become my favorite. These 3 years swallowed me whole as I fell endlessly in love with him. Wonderful two, more wonderful three 🎂
1• Celebrated 6 years married 🖤
2• and 16 years together!
3• Soy sauce cheesecake makes so much sense, 10/10
4• Forever treasuring this painting we commissioned of the Orion constellation
5• Bedtime routine starts with sitting on the kitchen floor and cuddling while listening to music, all completely his idea 😆
6• New mirror
7• My girl
8• Cool enough outside for a backyard hang
9• Romi’s first train ride
Romi’s baek-il! Celebrated 100 days of life with our sweet girl, marking the end of the newborn stage in traditional Korean culture. It’s true what they say: love grows, and your heart expands to sizes you didn’t know were possible. She’s a dream, and she makes our family whole 🤍🤍🤍🤍 Zoom in on Orion in that last photo for me, will ya? #백일
What I want it to look like 👉 What it looks like all the time 💁🏻♀️
I firmly believe it’s worth holding onto our styles and the things we find beautiful regardless of kids… just know that it will also look like kids live there 😆 I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t drive me crazy sometimes, but I’ve learned to see the beauty in this season of our home too. Kids do live here!
1• First mirror selfie with Ro what took so long??
2• Boops her nose and says “bing bing bing”
3• Family reunion in the yard
4• Orion eats first
5• Elbow dimple
6• What could you eat everyday for the rest of your life?
7• Lego lover 🎨
8• Lego lover with a smile
9• Then I remembered to take our first selfie as 4 🤍🤍🤍🤍
1- A rare solo outing
2- In the newborn bubble
3- Kanelbullar 💯
4- He can’t hold her on his own yet but this will do 🫶
5- Tim is back!!!
6- Framing this for Father’s Day I can’t stand it 😆
7- Romi’s first bow
8- We got out of the house!
9- 1234 cheeeese
Romi, big bro Orion, and fam 🖤
The season of opening up those sliding doors a lot more is upon us, meaning we’re bringing in beautiful weather 👍 and a lot more flying bugs 👎 Looking for a insecticide free way of trapping them and the Essentials Light Trap simply uses continuous blue light technology to attract mosquitoes and other flying insects onto a disposable adhesive cartridge trap. It’s people and pet friendly when used as directed, compact, and stays plugged in an outlet to work 24/7. More in my stories on how it works! https://liketk.it/49QBu
She’s here 🖤 Romi arrived even more fashionably late than her brother did, but was delivered in a speed like she wanted to catch up. She reminds me so much of Orion as a newborn, familiar and new at the same time. The gift of hindsight helps me see that this newborn period really is short, and that any expectations to be “productive” or quickly return to some previous state of normal are wasted on this opportunity to just be and witness how precious and full life already is. Holding her makes troubles feel small while making my firstborn feel enormous, and it puts me in this in-between of time both standing still and fleeting by. In short, I’m an emotional wreck, but she’s here, she’s here! I found true love again!!
Wtf… oh wait it’s ok 🥰
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Last photos as a family of 3! Getting deep in my feelings calling everything “the last” for the past month 😆 Can’t help but feel like I’m leaving something behind during this transition. All change feels that way I suppose. As much as I know there’s a lot of good ahead, I want to soak in how good it is now too. Meeting her any day now 🖤
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Made a very important nursery update with the Grano Glider Recliner that checks off everything I wanted:
✔️Glides and swivels
✔️Reclines!
✔️High back for head support
✔️Firm and comfortable
✔️Pretty
Got emotional the first time I reclined in it thinking about how much I would’ve loved to have this with my first, especially during those first few months. A good chair is paramount!
Slight change of scenery with the black cabinet moved to this wall where our “entryway” used to be set up. I was using the bottom part of the cabinet to store tableware pretties so it makes a lot more sense that it’s here now next to the dining area. Next is figuring out entryway 2.0, a little downsized but still functional for our family!
I had a big surge of energy during the third trimester of my first pregnancy and I expected the same with this one, but it’s been the complete opposite. Sluggish, heavy, exhausted, and initially really disappointed that all the things I planned to do during these “final weeks” are slipping further from my grasp. So instead of keeping a running ambitious to-do list, I told myself to pick a priority for this season outside of basic needs, and I’m picking spending time with my family. Letting the other stuff go to make more memories while it’s the three of us. These are the best days ❤️
Sharing this paint color update of Orion’s room as long as you promise to act surprised by the final room reveal, ok?? Orion’s handsome moody green toddler cave is underway!! When he first walked in here he said, “Woah beautiful dark room!” 🥹
3rd trimester shoot with my maternity photographer Oleg. Totally felt motivated to do this in front of the white walls before we painted them for Orion’s big boy room!
“Put your arms up straight I think it’ll look cool.”
Something unexpected that I learned after my first pregnancy is that it isn’t just about what you register for, but where you register and the perks it brings to the parents both before and after baby’s arrival since it can provide additional support for getting the items you need. Baby Registry offers a Year of Benefits including 15% off your registry items, 1 year of free returns, and a welcome kit of samples and coupons valued at $100+. Check my stories for how to start a Target Baby Registry and my newborn must haves via .ltk https://liketk.it/3ZyIq
Non-moving music-less views of the new living room layout ✨
Oleg has already expressed that he wants to move it back to the old layout 😂 I get it, it felt more spacious before, but we tried this out thinking we’d want to put a TV in here + all that extra storage!! Now we wonder: are there any foreseeable issues with keeping one TV just in our primary suite? It’s becoming our bedroom, but it’s so big that we’re dividing it up into two spaces- bedroom and family room, basically a TV room with a bed in it. That would mean this living room would remain as more of a sitting room (and play room really!), pretty much continuing on the same way since we moved in, but with less storage 🤔 Last photo is of the previous layout for reference.
Been in my feelings over how our family is growing and savored our last holiday season together as just us three, the best one yet. This year we’ll be a party of four 🥲 Happy New Year 🍾
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Merry Christmas!!!
This is the first year Orion is really responding to holiday magic so I’m terribly almost sick to my stomach excited to enter into Christmas weekend!!
Before we do, I want to express that we are so grateful for your company. Thank you for all the joy and laughs. Merry Christmas and wishing you a restorative break ahead 🖤
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Christmas around the house 🎄 my most favorite version of our home. I love this time of year so so much. Christmas week let’s go!!!
Maui was our honeymoon destination and we wanted to return for our babymoon when I was pregnant with Orion, but because of travel restrictions at the time we saved the idea for babymoon 2. This way Orion lucked out and could enjoy it too 😛
I found myself grieving that our time as a family of three will be ending soon. Our dynamic is so good right now and it’s hard to imagine Orion sharing the center of our world with another baby. I’m both excited to grow our family and want to stop time. I wish to take many more trips just us three and also am eager for baby girl to join. I’m so glad we made this trip happen, and it’s crazy to me that Orion had the time of his life and won’t remember it, but we will!!
Back home! Ready for holiday baking, snuggling with hot tea on the couch, and watching Love Actually after Orion goes to bed. I always forget it’s not a family movie.
One of the things I looked forward to most after updating our exterior was decorating the porch for the holidays! Kept it simple with hanging up lights and a garland to frame the window with Outdoor Light Clips. Quick and easy, and even better that no holes were made and no residue will be left behind once it’s time to take it all down. Shop these Command] products and more via .ltk https://liketk.it/3RwQy
A few shots from Orion’s birthday party, where we shared with friends that he’s going to be a big brother and where I determined that we must all experience love the way Orion loves cake 🎂
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My sweet boy turned 2!! 2 lightning fast years of going through everything together, we did it 🥹 Impossibly precious, joy beyond comparison, I love him madly.
Pumpkin patching while it’s free admission for my baby before he turns 2 next week 🥹
As always I saved the best photo for last 👉 What happened when Orion said he wanted to sit on the tractor and we did!
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Simply changing out the bedding can transform the bedroom! Partnered with to feature my favorite picks from Threshold's Fall Collection, all shown here giving our bedroom a moody textural update for fall. Shop everything via .ltk https://liketk.it/3R1Kj
Well we made it to and back from Chicago, and I say that with exasperation because this was a particularly challenging trip 😅 It reminds me of how during my first months as a new mom I’d wonder what I was doing wrong that made me feel like it was impossible to go anywhere together for extended periods of time. I know now that it feels hard because it IS hard, but we do it anyway, getting better with experience at managing expectations, being flexible, and making the best of hard moments- sometimes that’s as simple as laughing off the s**t show you’re in 🙃
We discovered Orion had hand foot and mouth disease, which resulted in staying in for most of our trip, nursing him back to good spirits while nursing my sinus infection, an equally tired dad doing the most to hold his sick family together, and a lot of meltdowns. Orion also got to see his grandparents, great grandparents, aunt uncle and cousins, eat a fresh slice of Lou Malnati’s deep dish pizza, visit the Lincoln Park Zoo, have his first carousel ride which he loved so much it was magic, and spend time in our beloved hometown. Do I want to hibernate for a month, yes, but did we make great memories despite the physical and mental load of family travel, always yes. Would for sure do it again hoping the timing and conditions will be better, but regardless we’ll still be ok 🖤
21 months later, our breastfeeding journey has ended. I preemptively mourned for the months leading up to the end that now I’m left feeling relieved that he’s ready to move on, and proud that we got through it. I loved it (after the first couple months of figuring it out 😵💫), I will miss it, and I’m ready to figure out what’s next with my growing boy.
This photo is from when Orion was 5 months. Tugs at my heart looking back at old photos and how already so different that season was, and how painfully evident it’s become to me that time is so fleeting!!
Our plans for the backyard! Had a few setbacks and surprises that delayed this project, but we’re finally making it happen in the coming months 🙏 Sharing the renderings created for all the exterior and landscaping updates we’ll be making + some changes in plans since discovering a few more of our challenges, all on the blog .com
Orion’s hero! The person that makes him laugh the hardest, the patient one who teaches him important life skills like unloading groceries and making coffee, cleans him up after jumping around in mud because mom is too overwhelmed by the mess, never turns down cuddling, and always down to give him a ride on his back like a camel. We love and adore dad 🖤
We took Orion to my most favorite place for the first time. I’m finding that wherever we go together, I’m mostly looking at him to see how he’s taking it all in (and if he’s doing ok or needs a snack). It’s a much slower pace. Before him it would be about covering as much ground as possible, but now we linger at the parts he finds most interesting, like the ducks at the garden maze, or repeatedly lifting his shirt to poke his own belly button. It’s hard to explain how wonderful being his mom is, but right now it’s fully hitting me that life’s simple joys are new again through his eyes, and seeing him experience our long time favorite things heightens my appreciation for every little detail. He is the greatest gift! All I want to do is take him everywhere!!
He is my son 🥹
Current state of the living room 🪜😅 Happy he has something meant to climb rather than the coffee table, but the coffee table still stays bc mama can’t let go of it!
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