SHOPPING
How to be invited to a private dinner with Tom Douglas at Seattle Macy’s
October 30, 2015This post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency; however, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own: Do you have a copy of this book, the Dahlia Bakery Cookbook? It’s one of my favorites and so is its namesake bakery, the Dahlia Bakery in Seattle, Washington, where you can find many of the recipes from the […]
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What I’m gifting the little Star Wars fans in my life so they can share the Force
October 23, 2015My world is currently a strange place where the two hurricane forces that control it are always quizzing me on my Star Wars knowledge, making me read everything they can get their hands on about Star Wars and cutting and turning any paper/boxes/washi tape I’ve left on low shelves into Star Wars creations that litter […]
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If your car drives in auto-pilot in Seattle on a Friday
October 16, 2015The hubby’s vehicle got an update the other day that makes it pretty much drive on its own and it freaks me out. There is a small part of me that thinks one day Elon Musk is going to call all his vehicles back to their mother ship and we will all be whisked away […]
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Getting ready for an October Monday in Seattle
October 5, 2015I can totally get used to these no-umbrella, sunny fall weekends in Seattle especially now that it’s soccer season. We spent the weekend tidying the house, playing soccer and bike-riding through gorgeous fall leaves (and I’ll update you on our big bike ride later this week!) but it’s perfectly autumn in Seattle right now so […]
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Indoor skydiving with the family (Ifly Seattle)
October 2, 2015For birthdays in our family we like to do experience gifts. The kids have really enjoyed going to the Space Needle for Dinner for their birthday and I was thinking about what to do for my husband for his birthday. I thought a fun birthday gift might be a sight-seeing trip in a small plane […]
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Because Darigold sent me a bunch of cheese
September 30, 2015I never knew Darigold was a Washington brand until we started visiting Issaquah on the way to where we’re building a cabin in Snoqualmie Pass. We’ve been finding cute coffee shops like the Issaquah Coffee Company there and Triple X Rootbeer, a fabulous kitschy diner tribute to everything we thought was lost in the 80s […]
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When buying local in Seattle means you can get gadgets that change the world (Chef’n, Seattle)
September 25, 2015See these Pepperballs? One year I think we received five of them for Christmas. FIVE. And I never even knew that they were homegrown in my city. Thanks to a field-trip I took at the International Food Blogger Conference in Seattle, we visited the Chef’n headquarters where a bunch of fellow food bloggers and I […]
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Support local farms and learn how to cook in Seattle (Acme Farm Box, Bellingham)
August 27, 2015A long time ago, way before the kids were born, the hubby and I tried out a local farm box delivery for our little family of two and made a few date nights searching for recipes and making dinner together. Those meals were some of our favorites and it was nice spending time in the […]
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A Seattle chocolate that helps you be a sharer (Jcoco chocolates, Bellevue, WA)
August 20, 2015The older I get and the more I hang around my sweet kids, the more it’s starting to rub off on me: Mommy can we help the animals? Mommy why do some people have no homes and not enough to eat? Mommy, isn’t that recycling and food waste-NOT GARBAGE!!!! Fix it mommy. Mommy, Mommy! MOMMMMY!!!! […]
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Our favorite place to stop and re-charge on our way up to Whistler just got better
August 13, 2015As long as I can remember we’ve stopped at Squamish on the way to Whistler. When I was younger it meant that we’d get an Egg McMuffin and coffee in the early morning on the way to a day of skiing from Vancouver. And then Tim Horton’s came along and we started stopping there for […]
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Getting Back to School in Style (Macy’s, Bellevue Washington)
August 11, 2015I am a member of the Everywhere Society and Everywhere has provided me with compensation for this post. However all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. I’m totally not ready for back to school and neither are my guys, (how is summer almost over already???!!) but I guess it’s coming and I would like […]
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If you need a Tesla discount code for supercharging when you buy a Tesla electric car
July 30, 2015So we bought a Tesla Model S in 2015, and I try to write about the road trips we’ve taken in our Model S with the kids whenever I can. We’ve visited Whistler, Couer D’Alene and Vancouver Island and it’s been really easy to charge and drive on and on and on. And I know […]
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The biggest pizza in all our land (Ballroom Fremont, Seattle)
We 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 […]
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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 […]
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Because the world needs more black rhinos and amazing human beings (Chizi’s tale, a review)
June 11, 2015My kids don’t know Jack Jones, but I wish they did. He’s a senior in high school in Connecticut and I think he must love animals as much as my guys do because he has written an amazing book about a black rhino and when I heard about his book “Chizi’s Tale” I knew we […]
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A remote Belize island without remotes is perfect for a family’s soul (South Water Caye with kids)
June 6, 2015“Are you sure this is the place?” our driver asked as he pulled up to a somewhat dilapidated dock in Dangriga, Belize. And the hubby looked at me and I looked at him and we both knew that we actually weren’t sure and we had two kids and a whole bunch of suitcases and three […]
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What social media made me shop and forage for in Seattle on a Monday
June 2, 2015It’s been a drizzly but hit-the-ground-running kind of Monday where I somehow found myself lost in the aisles of Costco. (Oh my goodness, is there any other place in the world like this that induces sane people to buy copious amounts of things they don’t need?!! I need to stay away.) Except they sell Tutta […]
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A little local love on a Monday (Seattle shopping)
May 18, 2015Oh Monday. How do you get here so fast and why is Friday SO. FAR. AWAY???!!! That’s why Monday is a day I usually shop and share my favorite new finds. So there is a fabulous new Golden Tote-like company called Emerald Cuff that was created by some fashionable moms in Seattle and if you’ve […]
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A couple Seattle things you might buy for mom, some things for you and a few you might buy for your littles
April 28, 2015I’ve seen a wave of things being advertised for mom for Mother’s Day in the last few days and a few gems have caught my eye, especially if you live in the Seattle area. I love shopping at Uvillage (along with probably every other mom in Seattle) and the coolest gift idea I’ve seen are […]
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Even grown-ups want to drive Power Wheels (When Chevy loaned me a Volt for a week)
April 13, 2015One spectacular Christmas, my guys received Power Wheel Cars and they drove around my parent’s house like two speed demons trying to beat each other to any and every destination they could dream of. They both felt so powerful and free and they raced until their batteries were out of juice and needed to be […]
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