Author: Terumi

Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout's mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)

Proud Mama moment at the Seattle Thunderbirds Game

March 11, 2014

I can barely keep this one in, I am SO excited. Ever since the hubby and I started going to the Tbirds WAY back when they were at Key Arena and long before we had kids, I remember seeing these cute mini hockey players skating at intermission. They were so fun to watch and I […]

Coffee Table Shopping and garden musings on a Monday

March 10, 2014

It is so hard to buy furniture on the interwebs. I’ve had my eye on this table for quite some time and it’s now 20% off thanks to a sale that ends TONIGHT. But I have no idea what it’s going to actually look like, so I’m a little worried but I have a feeling […]

C is for Cookies EVERYWHERE in Seattle

March 7, 2014

I’m a little biased when it comes to cookies. My sis is an amazing baker/decorator and she and her husband started a successful Canadian cookie business called the Steveston Cookie Company and I can always count on her to create ANY kind of cookie I can imagine. I also grew up sampling cookies in my […]

Seattle Memberships you might consider if you like to travel with your family

March 5, 2014

We have memberships to many of our local museums and I think we’ve even been zoo members for nearly 10 years now. (Yes, we were members even BEFORE having kids. I absolutely love our Woodland Park Zoo!) Seattle memberships are one of the ways we get to do so many things with our family in […]

Pedicures and Shopping on a Stormy Monday

March 3, 2014

It is very luxe to spend a Monday out of the cold and I can’t imagine a better place to do it than a lovely place where my toes come out all shimmery and divine. My go-to nail parlor is always Julep-I’ve been going here for years for pedicures. I love their colors and their […]

Trying out Papa Murphy’s Pan Pizza (a sponsored post)

I know I talk a lot about the foods we eat out on this blog, but I don’t always talk about what we eat in. I do like to cook and try new recipes. Sometimes they turn out amazing and sometimes they turn out horribly. And sometimes, I don’t have time to make a full […]

Photo Friday: I heart Haleiwa town

February 26, 2014

Haleiwa town on the north shore of Oahu is such a fun place to visit with kids. There is good food, lovely beaches and the Turtle Bay Resort is about a 15 minute drive away and it’s such a gorgeous place to stay. The beach there is sandy and calm and we could just hang […]

A train you want to visit just so you can eat pineapple and see hungry fish (Dole Pineapple Express , Oahu)

February 25, 2014

This is a train we’ve done over and over again, just like we’ve heard a zillion versions of Ka’a Ahi Kahului (Hawaiian Train Song) since we first rode the Dole Pineapple Express. (PS. THAT song is about another ride-able Hawaiian train, the Sugar Cane Train on Maui, and our family’s favorite version of the song […]

Rainy Shopping on what should be a snowy Monday and a new direction for next year

February 24, 2014

There was a little piece of me that was hoping for snow today instead of liquid sunshine, but at least the warmer weather means that we’ll be able to start planting outside soon. I’ve been successful with my old food garden-you can grow all sorts of vegetable tops-except I can’t get avocado seeds to grow […]

Bishop Museum and a yummy lunch nearby (Oahu with Kids)

February 23, 2014

I didn’t realize there could be such a thing as too much sun, beach and pool, but on vacation my kids literally wake up as soon as the sun rises and they could spend the whole day in the sun and in the water until it gets dark. I thought a good way to make […]

High Tea with kids (Urban Tea Merchant, Vancouver, BC)

February 22, 2014

There are so many lovely bakeries and restaurants in Vancouver, but for her birthday, I wanted to take my mom for high tea and I had the kids in tow. I was surprised at how many places offer a high tea with kids: the Fairmont Vancouver Hotel has an intriguing sounding Bubble Gum tea, and […]

Lillikoi, Malasadas, Coco Puffs, Shave ice and Pie (Oahu with kids)

February 18, 2014

Who am I kidding with that Lillikoi in the title? Our travels are usually full of food adventures of the bakery and dessert kind and while we did stop at a lovely roadside fruit stand near the Turtle Bay Resort (recommended by the Gypsy Guide app I bought that had a running commentary/tour of the […]

Wheel-y Awesome Find on a Monday

How have I never seen this before? And how has the hubby not seen it and tried to buy one yet? For the longest time in college, my husband commuted by scooter and then he finally joined the Seattle bike commuter ranks last year. But this? I saw this on our drive to Costco this […]

Saved the best for Last (Paradise Bay Resort, Kailua, Oahu)

February 16, 2014

We just got back from a trip with the kids to Oahu and it was such a welcome bit of paradise in all the cold we’ve had in the last little while. We usually don’t spend more than three nights in one place so we’ve stayed at three places over the course of this trip […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2014

I’m hoping wherever you are you are having a wonderful, warm and happy “love love love” day. (That’s what my boys still call this day in our house. The whole concept of Valentine’s Day is a little more difficult to explain. Hearts are easy) Today I’m totally thankful for friends and family and thankful I get […]

Exploring Imagine Children’s Museum on a chilly afternoon (Everett, WA)

February 12, 2014

All a kid needs is sunshine, water and air or something like that right? I love that the Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett has all of these things. We went the other afternoon using half-price reciprocal benefits from the Kidsquest Museum in Bellevue (Another great kids’ museum! the reciprocal benefits come with the family deluxe membership […]

Wing Luke Museum and a pasta lunch (Seattle, WA)

February 11, 2014

Thanks to our lovely Mohai membership we’ve been visiting a bunch of local museums lately that we’ve never stopped into before. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, but with kids sometimes we only have a short time to visit a place and it gets expensive doing that when you pay full-price. This time the […]

Something in my amazon feed that just made my day

February 9, 2014

Thank you amazon. Yes, I totally need a run parachute. Obviously you know that I’ve been searching running shoes and other running things, so naturally you might think this is something I definitely need. But you have not seen my running outfits, and they are garish enough without a giant parachute flying behind me. And […]

Because it is super chilly outside and you just finished that big carton of yogurt

February 7, 2014

I have been dying to make these ice blocks with my guys forever. I found a couple of spoiled yogurt cartons in the fridge (I don’t know why, but even if it’s a day BEFORE the expiry date, I get a little freaked out.) and I needed to find a non-wasteful use for them and […]

A whole lot of grief on Feb 6

I used to think that after years of missing someone the pain of missing them would just go away. Or maybe if I got grown up enough, somehow I’d learn to deal with sad things and maybe they wouldn’t hurt anymore. But the more I grow up I realize that life’s not like that. And […]