Kimchi Mamas

This is why I love Kimchi Mamas

An email I got today:

Mary, This is Caroline in San Francisco, the one who borrowed The Crossings DVD from you.

Just checked Kimchimamas and saw that you had your baby -- congratulations!!! You must be exhausted -- may I do the Korean thing and bring you some mi-yuk-guk? I remember being totally overwhelmed when my son was born, and that's when my mom was alive and my in-laws were around to help out. Let me know if it's OK for me to drop by with some soup. I'd be happy to do it. :) Caroline

Not to call her out or make her embarrassed but this totally touched me in more ways that she will ever know and I just want to thank you Caroline from the bottom of my heart.

I love my kimchi mamas.

T.T (those are tears of happiness)

-Mary

Another pic since we all love pictures.

The 1 month rule

I should totally totally be sleeping right now since I've gotten like 10 hours of sleep for the past week (newborn at home) but I have this overwhelming urge to write.

It's probably the hormones.

Oh yeah, so, I had a baby boy.  Please welcome Aiden.

As some readers might know, I don't have a very good relationship with my mom.  When I had the baby, I gave her a call, informing her of the news... just because, well, she is my mother.

Hot dog nuggets

One of my most memorable fights with my mom featured Nathan's hot dog nuggets.  Sixteen of them.  You know, those that look like miniature corndogs, but without the sticks.  They came in a green and yellow paper box with a flimsy cut-out latch, the kind that never kept the box properly closed.

I picked them up at Nathan's in the Long Island Railroad terminal in Penn Station on my way home from work.  I was in my early 20s, living with my parents in Long Island, and working as a paralegal at a law firm in midtown Manhattan. On the nights I worked late, the firm allowed me a $15 stipend for dinner.  On this night, instead of buying dinner while I was working, I waited until I got to the train station to get the hot dog nuggets.

Open Thread Thursday

Summer reading I WON'T being doing . . .

More kimchi babies!  Congrats Mary!

It's Open Thread Thursday . . . What's on YOUR mind?!

--The Kimchi Mamas