Month: January 2022

Best Wearable Blanket to Keep the Kids Warm

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I don’t know about you, but my 1.5-year-old can’t use a blanket and my 3.5-year-old refuses to keep a blanket on when she sleeps. I tried putting more layers on them, but exactly how many layers could we add without giving them difficulties moving around??? I’ve also tried wrapping the 3.5-year-old up with an Olaf convertible fleece throw (alternative) like a burrito. That seemed to have solved the issue. However, the fleece wasn’t thick enough for the winter and it sometimes gets unwrapped during the night with her rolling in circles and changing her sleeping positions for the 50th time at night.

Then it hit me, what if they just wear their blankets! I searched Amazon. There wasn’t a lot of choices with long sleeves, legs for them to waddle around, high enough TOG, and a decent amount of reviews. Basically just this one option:

Baby Sleeping Bag / Wearable Blanket

Rating: 5 out of 5.

I’m so glad I found this on Amazon. This particular wearable blanket is thick at 2.5 TOG (suitable for room temperatures 64°F- 70°F), has long sleeves and legs, and has 1700+ reviews averaging 4.6 stars out of 5! To my surprise (not listed in description), it even comes with detachable mittens and booties that you can attach on for added warmth!

This gives me a piece of mind that the blankets “stay on” throughout the night. Plus, my kids look uber cute waddling around in it. I got two sizes for each of them, and I’m definitely planning to up-sizing once the older one outgrows it. Such a must-have for cold weather!

This best-selling eye cream is only $11

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I saw an article about this $11 Cerave eye cream so I had to check it out on Amazon. It has over 25K reviews with an average of 4.4 out of 5 stars. It’s also the eye cream with the second most reviews (this Cetaphil one is the one with the most reviews, 33K at the moment). We already use several of the Cerave products, especially for the kids as Cerave is a brand recommended by our kids’ dermatologist, so it wasn’t hard to convince me to try this eye cream when it’s only $11.

Cerave Eye Repair Cream

Rating: 5 out of 5.

On Amazon, it says it targets dark circles and puffiness. I’ve been using this every morning and night for over a month now, and I do see an improvements in my under eye area. Especially on days when I’m lack of sleep and expecting darker circles and puffier eyes, the cream definitely has worked its magic to prevent that from happening! Even though this eye cream doesn’t advertise reducing fine lines around my eyes, I feel like it’s doing that as well since I’m regularly adding moisturizing ingredients onto my skin.

Formulated with Hyaluronic Acid to help retain skin’s natural moisture, Niacinamide to help soothe skin, and 3 Essential Ceramides to help restore & maintain the skin’s natural moisture barrier.

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This eye cream does what it says in reducing puffiness and dark circles. I still want to try something that targets the fine lines though so until it’s time for me to try something else, I would definitely continue to use this every day and night.

Chinese New Year Celebration Meals 盆菜 in the Bay Area

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There are not that many options for 盆菜 in the bay area. Here’s a list of where we’ve gotten ours.

2022 CNY Top Contenders:

Porridge & Things (Millbrae): $268 for 6 / $338 for 10

  • We ended up getting two of this, one for 6 people and one for 10 people. We will see how this turns out. 🙂

Koi Palace (Daly City, Milpitas, Dublin): $228 for 6

  • Room Temperature ones are sold out, only frozen ones are available now…

Harborview Restaurant (San Francisco): $288 for 6

  • Available for pickup in SF, but not available for group buying until 2/1 (CNY) due to busy weekends

Cheung Hing (Millbrae): $208 for 6

  • This is cheaper but it doesn’t have sea cucumber or fish maw

2021 CNY:

Harborview Restaurant (San Francisco): $238 for 6 People

  • We had this delivered via group buying last year and it was pretty decent. It came with nice instructions and all the food was warm and delicious after we reheated it.

HL Peninsula Pearl 半島明珠酒家 (Burlingame): $188 for 6 People

  • We picked up the Poon Choi around 1pm. It was in a nice red decorated box. However, we couldn’t reheat it well because the sauce was too thick to seep into the food, and the food inside stayed cold.