Author: Terumi
Trail Mix and a Brave Adventure with my guys (Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, near Olympia, Washington)
June 11, 2014Every so often I get a whole day with my guys all to myself. I let the dishes pile up. I leave the little messes to figure themselves out until after the kids go to bed. And I plot some ridiculous adventure. And we go. On days like these we’ve ended up at the Northwest […]
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Another Hiking Adventure with our kids (Discovery Park, Seattle)
June 9, 2014So many lovely days start off with pancakes and although this past weekend wasn’t a pancake weekend, (I’ll let you know about our fun and wild adventures from this weekend’s trip to Whistler soon enough!) the morning of our hiking adventure in Discovery Park with our kids was and I hope we can repeat this […]
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Dreamiest Cafe in the World (Royal Smushi Cafe, Copenhagen)
June 3, 2014When we travel we seek out coffee shops, even if the kids are in tow and probably mostly BECAUSE the kids are in tow. But it doesn’t mean we have to settle for Starbucks (even though I do love our Seattle chain, it’s crazy how we see it EVERYWHERE and it’s nice to try things […]
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Exploring tidepools with the Seattle Aquarium (for FREE in Seattle!)
June 2, 2014Oh you know I already have some serious love for the Seattle Aquarium and their great kids’ programs, but I just found out about their low tide Beach Naturalist program and my guys and I had so much fun exploring Tidepools with the Seattle Aquarium last week. I didn’t realize how many lovely things lived […]
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Copenhagen, Denmark with kids: a phototease
May 30, 2014Copenhagen was the last leg of an amazing trip and I keep avoiding writing about it because it was my new ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD and I fear that my soul thinks that if I write about it, the trip will finally be over, even though we’ve been back for weeks now. […]
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Running Mantra #1
May 29, 2014I am running again and as much as I sometimes dread it, it is so good for my health-especially my mental health. I find that when I run, I feel empowered, in control and strong and sometimes it’s just a nice way to concentrate on myself after hanging out with the kids and all their […]
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A few coloring resources my little world travelers (and I) can’t live without
May 28, 2014A few months ago I needed my guys to do some independent coloring and for some reason they chose flags, and I didn’t know at the time this would start a whole flag coloring madness in our house but now they’ve started a flag collection and have been coloring like crazy ever since. I […]
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Spring breakups on a fake Monday after a weekend of cleaning
May 27, 2014Just in case you thought it was all happy shopping here all the time, I have a confession. Because we order more online than most in this house, (the boxes show up here daily…) we get a lot of purchase mistakes. And because there’s been a string of them lately that have been costly in […]
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Because I wanted to ride a funicular (Switzerland with kids)
May 23, 2014I think our travel formula has stayed the same since the hubby and I started traveling together back in college. We always look for places based on the time we have, how much it’s going to cost (and what we can afford or want to pay) and some kind of weird or wonderful thing one […]
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Before you take your kid to see the Seattle Gumwall
May 21, 2014Remember, knowledge is enlightenment. I took some friends and their 4-year-old daughter to the market last week after a lovely but busy morning at the zoo. I gave the little one the market prep-talk because my guys always like to know what to expect in their adventures and it’s always hard to be the one […]
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Local love on a Monday
May 19, 2014Happy Monday lovelies! I can hardly wait for the boys to go to school this morning because this book arrived in the mail this weekend and I haven’t had a chance to open it and read it yet. I love star signs and the fact that these Astrologers are twins is something very cool to […]
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Where to bike with kids in Seattle
May 17, 2014This is actually more of a question than a solution. We have two active boys who love to ride their bikes but it is so hilly in Seattle. Our streets have a lot of traffic and the park near our house doesn’t have enough trails for them to ride. So where does one bike with […]
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If you haven’t heard of Strasbourg France you might want to especially at Easter (Europe with kids)
May 16, 2014When we planned our “Let’s go to Europe trip” we were just excited that Iceland Air would let us book with a stopover in Iceland on the way to Paris then fly out of Zurich. We chose those places because they sounded neat and their timetables worked with ours. So Strasbourg was no different. I […]
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Ice Cream addiction 2014 (Bottega Italiana, Seattle)
May 15, 2014Ice cream season has only just begun and this one is a clear best ice cream in Seattle EVER. (According to me, of course.) I’m referring to the mint gelato from Bottega Italiana and it might not even count as ice cream because it’s technically gelato but it is the PERFECT treat for a sunny […]
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Because men are so much harder to shop for on a Monday
May 12, 2014You know how when you go to any big box store the minute Halloween is over you are already too late to buy Christmas things because Valentine’s Day stuff has already thrown itself up all over it? Well, that is how I feel about Father’s Day. ALL the men in the family (especially my grandpa!) […]
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Yummy things I’ve eaten this week
May 9, 2014Oh dear. This was not a week I was supposed to be eating anything yummy. I’ve been trying to get back to my exercise routine and I have a fancy dress to look nice in for the hubby’s work function that is coming up too soon. But, this week I ate out with some girlfriends […]
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A love note to Airbnb from a family who used an Airbnb in Paris
May 6, 2014When we visited Paris with our kids, I wanted to re-visit this coffee shop my bestie took me when I went without the kids about a year and a half ago. It had a merry-go-round in front and so many adorable shops and bakeries nearby. So, when I found a nearby apartment on Airbnb, a […]
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First snapshots from France (Paris with kids)
May 2, 2014Sometimes pictures say so much more than words. I’ll get to the details of how we got around in Paris and Strasbourg with the kids soon but I wanted to get these out of my camera: And scrolling through my photostream I realized the difference in traveling to France with my kids versus the […]
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When the founder of an awesome clothing company comes to your house (Sodo Apparel, Seattle, WA)
May 1, 2014I’m not exactly sure how this one happened, but I kind of just went with it and I think that’s the story of my life these days. (I’m trying to add a little more controlled Carpe Diem back into our lives now that the kids are getting older and we’re no longer in the double […]
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Three days in Iceland (Iceland with kids)
April 30, 2014I don’t know about you, but when I first thought about Iceland, it brought back haunting memories of my over-the-top Bjork phase in tenth grade where I totally thought she was the most amazing music artist EVER and I might have even thought about wearing a swan dress. But with kids, Iceland is the perfect […]
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