Ginger and Ginseng

This is our final episode of season 2 before we take a summer break and start back up in the fall for season 3. We talk about what our COVID summer plans look with online VBS, disinfecting airBNB homes, online summer camps, masked play dates, etc.

In this week’s episode, we talk about how to be strong, courageous, and resilient during COVID and how to instill these truths to our kids and grown-ups alike! We also introduce a children’s book that teaches this message in Eunice’s new book, Mama What If?: The Pirate Treasure.

With Covid, there can be days where it gets to us but today we wanted to do a little uplifting and partying it up with some 90’s Kpop music. Each of us shares our favorite Korean 90s songs and talk about what memories these songs trigger.

With Covid, we have been doing a lot more cooking at home so we wanted to share what we’ve been cooking and/or eating during this shelter-in-place. We made a list of meal hacks that’s been working for us. We hope that you can find some inspiration from what we’ve been cooking in our kitchens, how we’ve been shopping for groceries, and how we’ve been managing the crazy amount of dirty dishes! We end this episode on our final thoughts on what have been the benefits of home cooking. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we had recording it!

With the emergency closure of schools due to the Corona Virus, we had to quickly pivot to homeschooling for our kids! Sharon and Eunice share how they’ve been adjusting to working and schooling kids from home. We dish on helpful educational online resources, sample school schedules, zoom play dates, and conducting online classes of extracurricular activities! We end this episode on a lighter note to reflect on the bright side of all the school closures and stay-at-home guidelines and how it has given us an opportunity to spend more family time together.

In this episode, we talk about how life looked like when we were both full-time working moms. We also talk about what how and why we went from working full time to quitting or working part time and what that’s been like. In this season in our life, we are both considering going back to work full time. In doing so, we talk aloud about our thoughts and considerations we’ve been wrestling with the decision to work more. We wrap up by discussing what are the basic conditions that we would want met if we were to go back to work full time. Please join us in this candid discussion we have about the confessions and diaries of a working mom! #gingerandginsengpodcast

Self-care is important in our busy lives juggling parenthood, careers, marriage, and whatever else may be on our plate. What do you do to take time and do something for yourself? How do we take care of ourselves when we’re busy taking care of others? We hope you can pick up some ideas from our conversation and start carving out time to do some self-care!

Sharon and Eunice plan for spring break family trip ideas. From day trip ideas, to longer road trips, to trips by airplane... we cover a range of family trip ideas that they’ve personally been on or compiled trip ideas from friends! Happy planning your own spring break vacay!

It is flu season! So what do you do when you, your kids, and your family get the flu? Sharon and Eunice share what they do when they get the flu, how to cope, and steps they take prevent getting sick in the first place.

Host Ginger and Ginseng are both in our mid 30s and we wanted to write a letter to our 20-something selves. Knowing what we know now, what would we have done differently? What did we do right in our 20s that we are now reaping the benefits of in our 30s?