DAILY LIFE
Pepper painting and the saddest attempt at macarons
February 9, 2012Some days are meant for lying around, reading books, painting and baking-especially a grey day after a week of sunshine. I thought we would make cheery pepper flower paintings. I saw something similar in a recent Family Fun issue using celery, and thought they were amazing. Peppers make more of a peony shape. They boys […]
Read MoreGoodbye January
January 31, 2012I didn’t even have time to spell the whole word. Within minutes, it was destroyed. Goodbye January! Goodbye Jan. What a weird weather month you’ve been. Warm enough weather for biking at the park. Snow. And glorious sunshine. (Maybe this doesn’t count as actual Seattle weather because it involved an airplane, but it certainly helped […]
Read MoreWaiting at the airport
This is what waiting at the airport looks like sometimes with kids in tow. We bring things like our trunki suitcases to keep our kids entertained but in reality when flights get delayed or there isn’t a lot of space to sit down in our waiting area, there isn’t much we can do. Sometimes we […]
Read MoreFarm, Fuji Bakery and Feeling Domestic
January 30, 2012A perfect morning for the boys and I, is a trip out to our farm. I guess it’s not really our farm, but we feel like it is. It’s only about a half an hour away from Seattle and we adore Farmer Jayne and the other staff who work there. We take a lot of […]
Read MoreMmm Mmm went the little green frogs
January 23, 2012If you are in Seattle on a rainy day in the winter, one of the most delightful places to hide away is in the Rainforest at the Woodland Park Zoo. It is warm and cozy and full of neat exhibits to explore and our favorite exhibit is the Poison Dart Frogs. It keeps us out […]
Read MoreCome In Winter (when we get snow in Seattle)
January 19, 2012This morning we took a a page from the boy’s Owl Book where he welcomes in Winter and brought the snow inside to play because this was one of those rare mornings where we woke up to snow in Seattle. It was almost as messy as the snow disaster in the Owl book we read, […]
Read MoreSnow Day
January 18, 2012After two days of waiting, we finally woke up to enough snow outside that we could really call it a snow day. Do you get snow where you live? In Seattle it seems like we only get snow like this every few years. We hung up our bird feeders. We made pumpkin seeds and pumpkin […]
Read MoreWhat you do the day before the Biggest Snowstorm Ever!
January 17, 2012According to this article we have a “juicy storm” coming our way. I totally thought it was coming today so I’ve prepared for the biggest snowstorm ever. I forgot that living in the United States the news is always Armageddon with the weather so I totally wasted my day thinking I would be stuck on […]
Read MoreBooks, Babies and a Brief Encounter at the Seattle Aquarium
January 14, 2012The boys love this book that they received when they wee babies (Thank you Marcia and Ken!) and I think because they love it, they also love the sea otters at the aquarium. So when I told them that one of the sea otters was going to have a baby a couple weeks ago, it’s been […]
Read MoreI heart Postcardly
January 11, 2012When I first heard about Postcardly I wasn’t sure how I was going to use it: the grandparents, aunts and uncles all live in Canada and it doesn’t work for international addresses( yet). BUT, I suddenly realized how fantastic it would be for sending to our local friends and I’ve been having fun sending playdate […]
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Wordless Wednesday: Active Octopus at the Seattle Aquarium
Some days the world just seems a whole lot more wonderful. I could watch the octopus at the Seattle Aquarium all day. It’s probably the most active one we’ve ever seen and we love to check out the octopus tank when we come to the aquarium to visit our undersea friends. The kids also love […]
Read MoreAnjou Bakery (Cashmere, WA)
We went to Wenatchee this weekend looking for snow and found a bakery, of course. And we didn’t find snow in actual Wenatchee-but we did at LAKE Wenatchee which made it absolutely perfect and then we found more snow again at the Hyak Sno-Park on the way home. And all of that was lovely. But […]
Read MoreThings you don’t really need at Ikea but should buy anyway
January 6, 2012This morning we headed to Ikea because we wanted to get some drawer pulls to replace some that had broken. Unfortunately we couldn’t find them in the maze and it felt very cliche to be shopping for organizational stuff the first week of January anyways. So we didn’t buy anything functional. It was just a […]
Read MoreTake me back
January 4, 2012If I could be anywhere in the world right this instant, I’d be back in Clark Quay Singapore where a few months ago I had this drink while we waited in sweltering heat for our boat tour to arrive. This yummy meal in a cup set me back at least 9 dollars and a million […]
Read MoreThe Quiet Room at Seattle Children’s Theatre
January 3, 2012If you by any chance have a little boy who is scared of plays, or even just scared of being scared, you might want to find this door the next time you go to the Seattle Children’s Theatre. It’s the Quiet Room. I think it’s meant for screaming babies because there were a few in […]
Read More(French) Toasting out 2011 with one last yummy breakfast
December 31, 2011I think today’s breakfast place will be a favorite in 2012. We’ve driven by numerous times and I fell in love with the logo: And now I’ve fallen in love with their breakfast. We went to the Cheeky Cafe this morning with Auntie and Uncle J and were thrilled to find that the menu had […]
Read MorePutting the Finishing touches on Christmas 2011
December 22, 2011We aren’t totally ready for Christmas yet. There are a million presents to wrap in our basement despite the diligent wrapping efforts the hubby and I have been putting in between episodes of Friday Night Lights and vain attempts to exercise at the gym. But it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The […]
Read MoreAdvent Calendar Poo Surprise: December 19th
December 19, 2011I think my guys got horse poo in their advent calendar today: (It’s the horse theme one by Playmobil. Does anyone else have this advent calendar for their kids?) I wasn’t too sure but then I looked a little closer and this was all that was in Day 19. What else could it be? Is […]
Read MoreAlright Hubby, here’s my wishlist:
December 18, 2011“Where’s your wishlist? ” the hubby asked me smugly after I made him watch the Glee Christmas Episode. “Me? I don’t have one. I have everything I need, “said the Good Wife. Well, almost everything I need…. So Love, if you really want to know, this Christmas I’m just wishing for a little bit of […]
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