celebrations
When your marriage becomes a teenager
August 10, 2015I remember being a teenager. I had the horrific glasses, braces and bad hair combination that I was always terrified I’d see broadcast as the poster child for the 80’s on Facebook. Becoming a teenager was not my favorite life event. But this past week the hubby and I reached the 13 year mark in […]
A place that needs its own trophy for best soft serve (Trophy Cupcakes, Seattle)
August 1, 2015I already have mad love for Trophy Cupcakes-it is the most adorable cupcake shop in Seattle (Especially the original one in Wallingford that is housed in an old school building) and we have a plethora of cupcake shops here to choose from. And not only does it have delicious cupcakes, but the owner, Jennifer Shea, […]
The biggest pizza in all our land (Ballroom Fremont, Seattle)
July 30, 2015We have a bit of a pizza obsession in our house and we’ve never been to Italy. Hopefully next year we remedy this with a trip to the place that probably should have been our motherland. We are thankful that Seattle has no shortage of pizza. We regularly frequent Tutta Bella and love Tom Douglas’s […]
Not just another pretty landmark (Space Needle, Seattle)
July 24, 2015It’s starting to become a tradition that every year on their birthday my guys decide that the SkyCity restaurant at the Space Needle is where they want their birthday feast. Of course they love this place because I’m terrified of it. (Ahh…karma.) Yes, it’s a fabulous beacon that helps me easily find Seattle Center and […]
Ice Cream Day should happen here EVERYDAY (Full Tilt Ice Cream, Seattle)
July 20, 2015If I say “do you love pinball?” and you say “yes it’s magical” with that glow in your eyes that only pinball lovers like me get, than I have found you the unicorn of places to play pinball, and it exists in at Seattle’s Full Tilt Ice Cream and you will have to go there […]
My first night as Auntie Tee
March 23, 2015According to my kids, I can’t be Auntie Terumi. They think it sounds weird. You are Auntie Tee now, they told me as I tucked them in tonight. Auntie T? No, that doesn’t make the right sound. How do you spell tea like the tea you drink? T-E-A? Well you are T-E-E. Auntie T-E-E. Auntie […]
In case you miss Macaron Day in Seattle, here’s where we find our favorites
March 19, 2015My little guys are big fans of macarons and every time we walk into a bakery that sells them, it feels like it could be Macaron Day, but I didn’t realize that Macaron Day is actually a thing until I was buying some pastries at Le Panier this morning and saw their gorgeous new stickers […]
When your family gets sick while traveling for Christmas
December 29, 2014So before this sounds too dramatic and cruel, we weren’t horribly sick while traveling for Chrismtas and we weren’t terribly far from home when we were traveling-Vancouver BC, our hometown is only a 3 hour drive from Seattle where we live-but I remember joking with friends over drinks a few nights before Christmas about being […]
Letting go a little so we can catch some Christmas Magic
December 22, 2014The thing I’m learning about Christmas, is that it sneaks up on me even when I’m not ready. So this year, I’m just going to take it as it comes. And even if we don’t get everything done perfectly or if we miss out on some things, it will be okay. It will have to. […]
Wildlights 2014 (Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle WA)
December 3, 2014Wildlights at Woodland Park Zoo might be a newer light show in Seattle-it’s only on its third year-but we’ve been going since it started and it has become one of our family’s favorite Seattle holiday traditions. The other night when we visited, the sky was bright and clear and there was still a dusting of […]
Last Minute Pumpkin seeds
October 31, 2014If you were like us, we left pumpkin carving till the last minute and we might have had to wait until next year and I probably would have been okay with that except I LOVE PUMPKIN SEEDS. I just hate carving pumpkins. They are messy and it’s a really weird tradition and my pumpkin skills […]
The Fremont Troll and where we eat nearby (Fremont, Seattle)
October 29, 2014The other day we were heading out for a simple dinner (we often eat at Tutta Bella with the kids and if we get there before 6pm it’s happy hour and dinner is even more awesome) when we decided to take a little detour up Troll street to say hello to our favorite Seattle neighborhood […]
A heart too full to shop on a monday even though the house is empty
October 13, 2014Well it’s not entirely empty. Some mornings start well into the night when a little one gets a fever and all of a sudden you get reduced back to the new-parent cycle of comfort/worry/wait/stayupallnight/willtheyeverbeokayagain and instead of sending two kids off to school you only send one. (He is doing much better now by the […]
Sometimes we celebrate
September 25, 2014Making cake is just an excuse for us to eat sugar soccer balls for breakfast. Because the best thing after birthdays is leftover cake and birthdays are meant to be celebrated for a while. And even more than cake or making cake or having birthdays, knowing that we get a chance to say thank you […]
Octonauts and the Cold and Rainy Pool Birthday Adventure
August 20, 2014I’ve always been stressed out about having park parties for my kids because we live in Seattle and there is always a slight chance of rain no matter how sunny a stretch of weather we get. I don’t know why I didn’t apply this train of thought to having an outdoor POOL party but suddenly […]
A secret river spot and three of my faves
August 15, 2014Somewhere in Coquitlam, a river runs through it, and I wouldn’t have known about a sweet spot to hang out in it if it weren’t for these two who are celebrating a handful and a bit of years today. It seems like it was just yesterday. But then this seems like yesterday too. We’re so […]
Seafair in Seattle
July 31, 2014In a few hours the Blue Angels will start their practice laps and this is probably the first year I won’t curse them because they always fly during nap time and in the early days with twins, there is nothing worse than hours of house-shaking noise RIGHT during naps. Over the years we’ve loved Seafair for […]
Birth week, the Space Needle and a Lunar Orbiter
July 23, 2014The guys’ turned 6 this week and as usual our birthday celebration has exploded into a birth week celebration and the guys requested that we eat at the Space Needle for their family night dinner. It’s busy in the summer so I made a reservation a couple weeks before and it was pretty booked up […]
Where my kids discovered cucumber cream cheese sandwiches and scones (adorabelle tea room, Steveston, BC)
July 11, 2014I always knew my kids would love sushi and perogies because those ingredients are a part of their souls. And they have to love Taco Time because the hubby and I have had some of our best dates on Taco Tuesdays long ago. And they will have no problem understanding the different nuances in different […]
Things I love this Green Monday
March 17, 2014Somehow holidays sneak up on me. Everything sneaks up on me lately because things have just become so busy and between the kids’ school, the cabin plans, our upcoming Europe trip, the hubby’s work and just trying to survive daily life stuff, it sometimes feels like I just can’t keep up. I didn’t have grand […]