Can I just be truthful and tell you that it feels FANTASTIC to be missed? I haven’t had throngs of people flooding me with emails or tweets about how they miss my very existence, but I DID have a handful of friends, acquaintances, and even a stranger or two tap me on the shoulder and tell me that they missed my blog entries! Aw shucks. Sometimes it’s nice to be encouraged, because seriously being a blogger has its ups and downs. Sometimes you post something so frivolous or “trivial” in your eyes, and you get tons of comments and reactions. And other times, you pour your heart out and spend hours on making a video or creating a recipe and you get crickets. It just goes to show, you never know what will perk people’s interests.

But I digress. Like I was saying, it felt nice to be missed by the small handful of people who took the time to come up to me and say, “hey…you haven’t been blogging for a while.” Just because they noticed, I feel truly thankful. And just for that, I decided to blog again today and keep you in the loop. [...]

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I should probably win an award for “blogger who can go the longest without blogging.” We’ve been traveling quite a bit for family obligations, but we’re finally back in California now. Once all the traveling was done, it took me a while to regain focus and discipline to blog again, so I let days and days go by without even thinking of my next entry. Thanks for bearing with me while I rested and got over my writer’s block.

While we were in Philadelphia, of course we ate cheesesteaks. We also had some awesome Chinese food, pizza, salmon salad…you name it. But I’d say the most memorable meals were probably with my sister and brother-in-law, the last two days we were there. [...]

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We went to New York for two days, but it felt like we were there for at least a week! This trip wasn’t really about the sight-seeing. Instead, it was about the people we wanted to meet and visit. Okay, and it was a little bit about the food. We took the train into the city and walked around practically EVERYWHERE because we were cheap and didn’t want to spend too much money on the subway, especially after we found out that they got rid of their one day fun pass! Of course it had to rain ALL day and that made us now weak-sauce Californians both catch some nasty colds, but it was fun and refreshing to visit our old stomping grounds again. Joe turned to me at one point and said, “I kind of miss this… the walking around.” Yeah, me too. [...]

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I am currently in Philadelphia without the husband, who is the designated photographer, but I wanted to take advantage of my family and some of my old school friends for a Small Bites photo shoot. This East Coast “photo shoot,” was accomplished through me taking all the pictures through my phone. It included two different states, three cities, two babies, and a pair of expectant parents. Here’s just a little tidbit of what my friends and family accomplished together. I’m definitely one lucky duck to have people in my life who gladly offer up their babies to be my models…free of charge! I even got an offer to photograph another baby when I get back to California. Yup, we are surrounded by babies right now, and that’s why we came up with the idea to start a foodie onesie line in the first place.

We did have to battle against some quick moving little ones, which resulted in a whole slew of unfocused, majorly blurry pictures, but I think we also got a few good ones. [...]

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I’m usually good about keeping you updated with what’s going on and what I’m up to, but before I knew it, I was packing my bag and up in the air already. Well, after an all-day excursion of two plane rides, including a layover in Houston, and an over-priced Panda Express lunch at the airport, I’m here in Philadelphia, my home town.

I arrived on Wednesday and have been very occupied with my family and especially my nephew. The first and last time he saw me in person was when he was 3 months old, and now he’s turning one! In Korean tradition, when a baby turns 1, you have this big celebratory shin dig called a “dohl.” So I’m here for that. But I’m also going to be making the most of my 2 1/2 week trip by meeting up with as many people under the sun as I can.

Joe will be joining me here next week. But before I left him behind, I made sure that my non-cooking husband would be well fed. I made huge batches of three different dinners entrees in one night and froze everything in individual portions for him. Yeah, sometimes I even surprise myself. [...]

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It seems like everyone and I mean everyone around us is having a baby right now. I think it just comes with our age and current season in life. We are already an Aunt and Uncle, and of course we love our niece and nephew! But now we have so many more babies to love because most of our friends are taking on the roles of first time parents. It’s definitely exciting! Let me tell you, my facebook news feed is covered with just pictures of babies! Since we wanted to join the party too, we’d like you to welcome to the world, our long awaited brand new baby, Small Bites! This is the “project” we’ve been lovingly nurturing lately, so we’re excited to FINALLY reveal it and share it with you!

Small Bites is a line we specifically designed to help kids develop an interest in food and even cooking, starting from an early age. We are beginning with baby onesies as a nod and tribute to all of our friends who are currently expecting, or have just become new parents. We thought it would be a fun way to first introduce healthy foods to young kids, through these cute and quirky characters. And of course the onesies would make perfect gifts for parents who are foodies!

But the real reason we are revealing this to you TODAY is because it also happens to be my 30th birthday! That’s right! I thought it would be fun and symbolic to celebrate a new chapter in our lives, and the “birth” of our business, on a day that is an important landmark to me. Woah…deep. [...]

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