Seattle family
Why I need a whole new bedroom now thanks to my mattress
November 1, 2017I am going to have to overhaul my bedroom. This all started with an invite I received in my email from Tuft and Needle for the opening of its brand new Seattle store. This online mattress company from Phoenix was coming to Seattle and wanted influencers to check out their new brick and mortar store in […]
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Fun things for Hello Kitty Fans in Seattle and beyond
September 26, 2017Mark your calendars Seattle friends, there is a Hello Kitty Food Truck heading our way in a few weeks! On October 7 the truck will be at Westfield Southcenter and I so would love to be there! Has anyone been before? I have seen the lovely goodies from the truck but I’m never in town […]
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Next Level Burger in Seattle has vegan milkshakes and delicious kids’ meals
September 7, 2017Next Level Burger, a newly opened restaurant INSIDE Whole Foods in Roosevelt Square Seattle can’t be more perfect for families with kids. There is free parking. The food is fast and delicious. And when the kids have eaten and are perfectly content, the grocery store is RIGHT THERE so grabbing a fast few things for tomorrow’s […]
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Things I would not have seen in Boston with my kids if it wasn’t for CityPass
September 2, 2017With 9 year old kids who have traveled to many places you would think we would be aquariumed out by now, but I was still pretty curious about the New England Aquarium because I had heard a lot of fabulous things. We were staying at family-friendly Residence Inn Boston Seaport and the aquarium was a […]
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How talking to strangers might be more helpful than you think (Great Ocean Road, Australia)
August 23, 2017“You aren’t going to see any koalas in the wild,” my friends who had been there told me when I said this was my number one reason for visiting Australia. They’re all in sanctuaries and zoos where you can see them, hold them and meet them. But you won’t see koalas in the wild and […]
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Planning a trip to Seattle with kids?
June 6, 2017Call me biased, but Seattle is one of the most family-friendly cities I can imagine. There are many places for kids to play outdoors, lots of indoor spaces for rainy days and cool cafes and ice cream shops that appeal to families of all ages so if you are planning a trip to Seattle with […]
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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 […]
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What to unexpect when you’re expecting twins
June 1, 2012I’m dying to see that movie what to expect when you’re expecting, because I remember reading that book and feeling so overwhelmed-even before we knew we were having twins. Since the day we announced we were pregnant with the duo, the number one question we get asked is “Were you expecting twins?” Maybe it’s conversation. […]
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I spied….
March 26, 2012With my disbelieving eyes, something that looked like Target. So, today, I had to go on a reconnaissance mission to confirm. And here’s the proof. Right in the middle of the city. (I wonder when it opens? Can it open soon enough????) Now wouldn’t this be a fabulous adventure: morning shopping at Tar-jay followed by a […]
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Sounders Style
March 20, 2012I didn’t mean to create soccer fan monsters when I signed us up for soccer tickets-I thought it was my duty as a mom of boys to get us a little more involved in Seattle sports culture. But we are now a full-blown Seattle Sounders fan-mily. Seriously. I don’t know if they could get any […]
Read MoreA brilliant idea goes awry
February 29, 2012I don’t know if I should even call this a brilliant idea. I saw a picture on a faraway friend’s facebook of her kid at the beach in California. And then I thought, “hmmm….that looks like fun, where is there a beach around Seattle?” There are many beaches. If you live in Seattle you can […]
Read MoreOne of those days you just need to hop on a bus (Norhtwest Trek)
February 18, 2012Last night I promised the kids I would take them on a bus ride today and then this morning the weather was yucky and with the unpredictability of public transit to somewhere we could drive to in our own “silver bus” seeming unfathomable and scary, I tried to backtrack on my promise. I found and […]
Read MoreSeattle Top Pot Morning
We were running errands all morning and I asked the boys where they wanted to go for a snack as a reward for tagging along. And they decided that they wanted doughnuts. (Or donuts?) But what they really wanted were “sprinkly” Top Pot doughnuts to be exact. (I guess I didn’t specify a healthy snack.) […]
Read MorePepper 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 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 […]
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Wordless Wednesday: Active Octopus at the Seattle Aquarium
January 11, 2012Some 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 […]
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