Bold, Audacious, Daring,

We've been working on a room in our basement--which is still largely unfinished--but we did get the very back room sheetrocked, mudded, textured, and painted. We've used many words to describe how we decided to paint our new room. They ranged from bold, audacious, creative, fun, and patriotic....though not to the US...but to a very cl0se friend of the U.S. We now have a taegukki room. The taegukki is the name of the South Korean flag. And, now we have one proudly and boldly painted on our basement wall. It looks really good and we had a great time doing it. I forgot how much I liked painting things just a little bit bold. The boys LOVED it. We brought them down when we had finished and they just stood there looking at it without saying a word. And, then they smiled...'It's the taegukki!' Even Min pointed and smiled...'gukki,' he said. We've moved a sofa in and a TV along with a few toys. Now we have one clean, livable space in the basement while we try to work on the rest.

I have a few more pictures to post tomorrow. We went to the Cities on Friday for a vacation. It was sort of a family time since all the boys Family days are close together, and it was the day after Soel Nal, which is the Korean word for Lunar New Year, a huge holiday in Korea. And, we had a REALLY great Korean lunch.