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Now that I am out of self-imposed isolation, I have a ton of things to do! I am back up to posting on Noah’s blog which you will find the link to at the top of my page. We recently celebrated his first birthday with my family in Nashville. We had a great party with lots of family and friends though we have yet to celebrate his traditional Korean birthday. We’ll be doing that later on this month as I have to figure out the guest list, food and order Noah’s Korean outfit. There are two places here in Atlanta that I’ve found where I can buy Noah’s hanbok since I don’t want to wait to have it made and shipped from Korea.
There’s Hanbok Nara 3246 Buford Highway Duluth, GA 30096 (404) 644-6082 Website: http://www.hanbok-nara.com/
All of their hanboks are made to order and they don’t rent them. There was a lady there who spoke a little English so I was able to talk to her a bit. When Minsung called they told him it would be around $100-150 for a hanbok for Noah.
Then there’s 혼수타운 (Hons Town) 2550 Pleasant Hill Rd. #104 Duluth, GA 30096 (678) 205-1234
They also make there’s to order but unfortunately they don’t have a website and I couldn’t find anyone who spoke English. Minsung called and they also priced a hanbok for Noah between $100-150.
Because they make their hanboks custom I’m glad I didn’t get it last year as he had a bit of a growth spurt and is now wearing 18-24month clothing instead of 12month and his measurements have of course changed. We’ll be going next week to get Noah fitted so we can hopefully have his ready in the next few weeks.
School for me is back in session starting yesterday. Thanks to doubling up on classes last summer, I will be graduating from GSU a semester early! Last semester didn’t totally kill my GPA though it did bring it down some, so I will be putting Noah in daycare twice a week so I can spend most of the day in the library studying. Thankfully a girlfriend of mine has a condo near campus where I can park my car and walk since campus parking sucks on a good day. I’ve toyed with what I want to do for my PhD but I haven’t settled on anything yet and I think I will wait until Noah is in school. I always wanted to get my PhD before I turned 30, but I think having two Masters degrees is doing pretty good. Not many people are able to get even one so I’ll just continue to be thankful for what I’ve been able to do. I’ve been trying to narrow down my thesis since I have roughly 6 months before I have to defend it. I have a few professors who have volunteered to help me with it so I am meeting with my advisor today to get things cemented in.
Marriage wise, things are going…day by day I suppose you could say. There have been some hiccups as far as communication, but we’re still working at it. Minsung is working on being more understanding and I’m working on actually talking about my feelings rather than keeping them inside until I explode.
Today I decided to take Noah to the park after finishing up a meeting with my advisor. It was the first time he had really been able to enjoy the park as he is just now walking. 
I didn’t let him walk around on his own as he still thinks everything (including the ground) belongs in his mouth, but we did see some other kids and watched a train go by. 
We even met a new friend! 
Now we’re back home for lunch, a nap and watching reruns of Criminal Minds before it’s time to head to the gym. 
Hope everyone is having a great day!
Chocolatekimchimama 
Lil Noah is growing up very handsomely.
Anyways…you definitely gone to the right spots to find Korean clothing…Buford Hey..no matter which seem to be the spot. My aunt would go to one of the Korean warehouses to get items for her store or go out to the farmers market (The Korean owned one.There’s another one on the same street. ) for the fish,churros and empanadas .
Its great that you and Minsung are letting Lil Noah embrace his heritages. Its also great that you both are doing it sooner than later.. For me and my folks very important I grew up in a mostly White/White Jewish community and my folks and especially my grandparents wanted us to learn, the truth and the best of our culture and exposed usto everything as much as they could about African American culture and reminded us that there was nothing wrong with being who we are.
I have no kids, but whether my kid was Black and in Noah’s case ,Blasian I ‘ve already planned what I would do. I was telling a woman on another website how I planned to go on my trip with my family to learn more about our culture that you will not see in a history book. Even I continue to be inspired and interested in learning about myself. Just when you think you may know about about your culture,something interesting always comes up.