DAILY LIFE
Sniffly Monday Shoe Shopping
March 31, 2014Usually I love Mondays. The kids are at school. The house is semi-clean. I have a little time to myself for running, grocery shopping and starting the week. But today I’m a little sniffly and all I want to do is cuddle up in a bed with a warm blanket and a cup of tea […]
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TBT: Amethyst Mining Somewhere in Canada
March 27, 2014The other day an unexpected visitor showed up at our house. I was pretending to clean up stuff in our office and I got that weird, someone’s-watching-me feeling and sure enough, I looked out the window and this beautiful cat had decided our barbecue was a perfect place to nap. He(she?) stayed there for quite […]
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Dating on the fly (London Plane, Seattle, WA)
March 21, 2014It is really hard to plan dates with the hubby now that all of our schedules (the kids’ included) are so much more complex. But this doesn’t mean we just mope around and give up hope. We just have to live a little more spontaneous and sometimes we catch the luckiest breaks. The other day […]
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One really awesome thing: Mini Metropolitan Market at the Children’s Museum (Seattle, WA)
March 19, 2014I would have loved this as a kid and I bet you would have too. At the Seattle Children’s Museum they have an area where the kids can scan items on a real cash register like they have in real stores. We played blow-out sale at Mini Metropolitan Market this morning with our shopping carts […]
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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 […]
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Because I was curious: a brave and healthier version of a shamrock shake
March 14, 2014I admit I do crave a shamrock shake every March. It’s festive. It’s green. And it tastes absolutely dreamy. But it’s a whole lot of calories and it’s not really exquisite enough to waste running 10 miles for. And I hadn’t really thought about one at all this year until the other morning, a shamrock […]
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Proud Mama moment at the Seattle Thunderbirds Game
March 11, 2014I 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 […]
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Coffee Table Shopping and garden musings on a Monday
March 10, 2014It 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 […]
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C is for Cookies EVERYWHERE in Seattle
March 7, 2014I’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 […]
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Seattle Memberships you might consider if you like to travel with your family
March 5, 2014We 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 […]
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Rainy Shopping on what should be a snowy Monday and a new direction for next year
February 24, 2014There 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 […]
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High Tea with kids (Urban Tea Merchant, Vancouver, BC)
February 22, 2014There 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 […]
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Wheel-y Awesome Find on a Monday
February 18, 2014How 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 […]
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Exploring Imagine Children’s Museum on a chilly afternoon (Everett, WA)
February 12, 2014All 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 […]
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Wing Luke Museum and a pasta lunch (Seattle, WA)
February 11, 2014Thanks 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 […]
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Because it is super chilly outside and you just finished that big carton of yogurt
February 7, 2014I 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 […]
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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 […]
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Seattle Post-game shopping on a Monday
February 3, 2014Although yesterday was an epic sports battle for our beloved football team, this morning is a true test for me. Did I manage to get a goldentote order? (The site broke!) Did I get my lulu lemon run entry? (YES!!!!!!) And am I going to get the Seattle Seahawk Superbowl champion shirts? Probably not. But […]
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Olive-it all at Stoneburner and our favorite Ballard bakery (Seattle, WA)
January 31, 2014Maybe you’re groaning at the title, but I couldn’t help myself. The hubby and I snuck out for a lunchdate and ended up at Stoneburner in Ballard for the first time and we tried this amazing olive appetizer that was cheesy, oozy and delicious. And we loved them. All of them. Stonburner is such a […]
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When your sandwich comes with surprise pie at George’s Bakery (North Bend, Washington)
January 27, 2014Perhaps this was the most delicious meal of the weekend: We stopped in North Bend for lunch on the way to Snoqualmie Pass; once again we were on a quest for snow. I remembered that George’s bakery does the cookies for our favorite Seattle Christmas tree farm, Christmas Creek and I saw that the restaurant […]
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