In Korea, it is traditional to eat seaweed soup on our birthdays.  Do you know why?  

The soup is rich in iodine, iron, potassium, and calcium and helps cleanse the blood.  After a baby is born, the mother eats seaweed soup to replenish her body's vitamins and minerals to help her quickly recover after childbirth.  

When the baby breast feeds, that means that through their mother's milk they are kind of eating the seaweed soup too as that is the source of nourishment.  So, eating this soup on our birthday is symbolic of that time.  

Anyway, why am I talking about seaweed soup?  Because today is my birthday

See you when I get back!
Megan