DAILY LIFE
How to Preserve your Little One’s Huggy
July 22, 2013Does anyone else have a little guy who reads the safety manual on planes? I am white-knuckled superstitious about airplane travel (yes, I’m a scaredy cat flier) and I can barely look at that pamphlet without getting shaky. Not my guys. They ‘read’ it. They wonder about it. And they ask questions. “When a plane […]
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Five Years’ Eve
July 19, 2013Oh little babies, How can you be this many so fast? One. Two. Three. Four. FIVE!!??? Just a handful. But oh, what a handful and I’m grasping onto each of your precious years. Wanting second helpings. Trying to hold on tighter While you need to run and skip away to grow. With nearly five […]
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A nice place to bike with kids for lunch (Maggie Bluffs, Seattle)
July 15, 2013Since learning how to bike ride (thank you Pedalheads!) the guys have been wanting to ride everywhere so we’ve been looking for good places to bike with kids in Seattle. And for me, this also means we need to find yummy places that can be biking destinations. The other day we parked on a little […]
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Elephants, Jaguars and Little Giraffes (OH MY!)
July 12, 2013The other day the boys and I got to do something I’ve been DYING to do at the Woodland Park Zoo for at ages. We finally fed Bamboo the elephant! (And you’ll never guess what she eats…..bamboo!!) This feeding happens during what used to be the guys’ nap time so this is the first […]
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10 or so photos I’m savoring this Monday
July 8, 2013The past week flew by in a blur of happiness, holidays, friends and food. We went camping at Alice Lake (such a family friendly place to camp!) with lovely friends I’ve known since we were kids (and all our kids too!) for Canada Day. And I love all the sweet photos and memories I now […]
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If you’re as scared as I was about teaching my kids to bike
July 6, 2013When I had twins, I knew a couple things were going to be pretty difficult: nursing, feeding, choosing who to catch when the two one day walked and ran in different directions, potty training when both had to go at the same time. So thinking about teaching two kids to two-wheel at the same time […]
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Canada Day Last minute
July 1, 2013I always keep balloons on hand, just in case a little celebration sneaks up on you. Like Canada Day. (To our credit we camped in Canada until Canada Day Eve, but alas, we had to come home before the big day. C’est dommage.) You break out the red and white balloons (And break apart a […]
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Two lovely Seattle bakeries to visit this weekend
June 27, 2013Sometimes it feels like there’s a bakery void in the Magnolia/Interbay area of Seattle and when you map out a day’s adventures based on coffee shops and pastries like I do, this creates a little bit of a problem. Thankfully the Fuji Bakery finally opened on Friday and it’s right in the heart of Interbay. […]
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Ugh running and a tooth fairy visit
June 26, 2013People always say exercise is good for you but they should also add a disclaimer to say it really hurts too. And sometimes I wonder which is worse, a life with too much exercise or a life with not enough. (Although, I find it best to ponder such an idea while lying prone in the […]
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Something magical for rainy days in Seattle
June 21, 2013It’s supposed to do a lot of raining in Seattle in the next few days (maybe. Weather is still unpredictable right?) So what do we do in this city on rainy days? We figured out how to turn a giraffe into a unicorn and we found these cone holders at Seattle City Target We went […]
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Best membership for Seattle Families for Summer
June 20, 2013Seattle has so many great places to be a member of, especially if you have kids, but my absolute favorite membership in the summer goes to the Seattle Aquarium because of their amazing perks. Every Sunday in the summer they open their doors at 9am for members instead of the usual 9:30. This meant that […]
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Seattle Summer Day 1: Library Reading log
June 18, 2013This is not a bucket list (we have our list of 5 things we want to do here and I just signed up for some kind of bucket list challenge) but there are 78 or so days left of summer and I intend to fully savor them. Today we helped keep libraries from extinction by […]
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Marshmallow Revelation for your Monday
June 17, 2013After millions of hours of research, I finally figured out how to melt both chocolate and marshmallow at the same time for our camping s’mores. (I’ve had way too many s’mores with hard chocolate or burnt graham cracker from our experiments!) I used a ginormous campfire marshmallow and cut it in half. These are not […]
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I heart Steveston (Steveston, BC)
I heart steveston BC. From walking the dyke To little surprises hidden around every corner. The weekend market. And free water for all. The pastry case at Sweet Spot. (I’m still dying to try their ice cream. I spied Strawberry Rhubarb on my last visit!) And a short drive to Garden City Park that feels […]
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On reaching twin nirvana
June 14, 2013Don’t get me wrong before you read this. Today I’m exhausted. I’ve slopped on my pj’s and it’s still light outside. The guys have been swimming, we’ve hung out with friends, my house looks like a giant monster smashed the inside and I have attempted to bake something that exploded in the oven (and tonight […]
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Thoughts while running
June 4, 2013So I’m still doing this running thing. I don’t like to talk about it a lot because it’s oh so time consuming that I don’t like it spilling over to all my other stuff but a friend convinced me to re-sign up for a half-marathon and I did. And because it’s the only place I […]
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The best chocolate chip cookies in the world and a giveaway
June 2, 2013When you cook with kids there is so much time spent moving chairs around so they can reach the counter or being careful with things like eggs or cups of milk or half-opened bags of chocolate chips so that gravity doesn’t become your worst nightmare. I learned early on that with two guys wanting to help […]
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Something Old and Something New: thinking about bridges
June 1, 2013The Skagit River bridge collapse last week made me think about the way we get to places and how much I take these structures for granted. We crossed that bridge so many times between Seattle and Vancouver when I was a kid and it was very eerie to see it with a great big gap […]
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Deep Sea Diver and a really wet Folk Life weekend
May 30, 2013The guys are absolutely in love with Recess Monkey since we saw them in concert at Teatro Zinzanni last year and we were recently sent their new album, (their 9th!!! by the way!) Deep Sea Diver to check out. The tunes are really catchy and I know I’ve heard them sing one of them called […]
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Kids’ Tillamook Yogurt Review
May 29, 2013I got an email about a month ago about Tillamook wanting to send us some yogurt for review. My guys (all of them-the hubby included) eat yogurt almost every day for breakfast and one of our favorites is Tillamook so of course I said yes. (And I’m starting to realize that these are two 4-year […]
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