It’s hard to believe we have been in Seoul now for 3 months. We worked really hard to get settled before Asher arrived, but we’ve still been making our house a home. I am happy to announce that our clothes are now officially out of tubs/space bags/suitcases!! Now don’t get crazy and assume we have gone so far as to hang stuff up. We have about 20 coat hangers as of now and I keep refusing to buy them at the store because I don’t want to spend money on them. Real mature, I know. BUT, our second wardrobe was finally delivered this week so now Isaac and I both have a “closet”! Most of our getting settled happened thanks to a trip to IKEA…my happy place. I do not think it a coincidence that Korea got an IKEA six months before we moved here. God always provides…

When we got here we wanted Judah in the room closest to us even though it would eventually be Asher’s room, so we finally transitioned him to his real room today! It feels good to have everyone in the right place. It had driven my OCD self mad to have Judah sleeping in Asher’s room with Asher’s name on the wall, and Asher’s clothes in the closet. So now all is right with the world.

Anyways. Our home is still a work in progress but I figured I would show you around now that we are a bit more settled than in our first post!
After having put so much effort into Judah’s nursery, I hated to leave it all behind so we brought his mobile and letters that spell his name. I also ordered Asher a mobile and his name. There was an extreme lack of an opportunity to nest before Asher was born so these couple of decorations were my attempt at “preparing the nursery”. It’s not much, but it makes it feel a bit more like home.

We are happy to finally have nightstands in our bedroom, as cute as the rubbermaid tubs were. We liked our old comforter, a quilt made from my grandfather’s old shirts, but in this stage of life we can’t have nice things as somehow it always ends up with poop on it.

You can’t really see it but we have a really deep sink that we love. We learned that most Korean homes have sinks like this to use them to prepare kimchi…ya let me get right on that. How about we just use it to pile up a ton of dishes…

I will point out that there is no central air. We have an air conditioner in the living room and a small one in our bedroom. The boys’ bedrooms have oscillating fans. I miss ceiling fans! We have doors on either side of our apartment, in the living room and laundry room, and big windows in the rest of the rooms that we can open for a nice cross breeze. Being on the 6th floor (of 18) helps. Lately there have been many nights where it has been cool enough to sleep with all the sliding doors and windows open. We love being able to open up the doors and enjoy the weather as fall begins to set in.

Our entry way. One day I will be able to use the toddler height shelves, but for now, I will choose other battles to fight.

The guest bathroom.

I am still keeping an eye out for a couch that sits more like a couch and less like a park bench. If you ever find yourself in our neck of the woods, stop on by and sit a spell. In the meantime, I am off to convince myself we don’t need to order in dinner…

Sending love from the future.