TRAVEL
When you stop to ponder your AAA membership, how safe Canada is and what this all means for family travel on a Monday
December 15, 2015I met a few angels this weekend on my drive to Vancouver. What started out as a mission to celebrate my grandpa’s 91st and my sister’s 30-ish birthday made for a bit of a disaster. My car almost broke down on a big bridge in Vancouver, but thankfully crawled and spluttered a little farther and […]
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Holiday Tea at Salish Lodge is better if you bring a little guest
December 10, 2015I’ve been wanting to take my boys to eat at the Salish Lodge ever since my husband and I stayed there last year and I heard about this honey from heaven thing they do to pancakes where if you ask for honey on your pancakes, they drip it from far above your plate. I thought […]
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One sweet day in La Jolla with kids
November 11, 2015I’m not used to being the one who goes away for business, so when I was invited to an event in San Diego a little while back, I brought my family along and gave them strict orders to leave me alone while the conference was on and we would all hang out together for one […]
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Travel wants on a Monday
November 9, 2015Oh if we could only curl up like pigs in a blanket and drink coffee all day in front of a fire today is the kind of Monday in Seattle that would warrant that. The rain is pouring, the heater is on and I just want to burrow somewhere toasty and not come out until […]
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Because we all need an excuse to go to San Diego in the Fall (#myprintlymoms)
November 3, 2015How thankful am I to MomSelect and Maria Bailey? I was invited to come to a Print and Pamper Retreat for HP to learn about HP and My Printly for a group called MyPrintlymoms and hang out with some fantastic ladies at a place called Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego and it was delightful. It was […]
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A suite hotel with breakfast and a great location (Victoria, BC)
October 21, 2015Every time I hear the song “Under the Boardwalk” I’m whisked back to the steps along the water in front of the Empress hotel where the buskers seem to play this song over and over through the summers of my memories in Victoria BC as a child. So this summer when we returned to Vancouver […]
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Car2Go Electric Car envy in San Diego
October 14, 2015It isn’t hard to find good things to say about Car2Go in Seattle. I think they are the main reason my husband has been able to bike to work for the past couple years because they are so easy to use that they provide a great backup for when he needs a car in the […]
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Where you charge in Vancouver when there is no supercharger
October 8, 2015Ok Vancouver, you really need a supercharger. If you’ve been reading a while, we’ve owned our electric car for a few months now and I can’t believe how much fun it’s been to use on our road trips. Now all we need to find is a place where we can get a good charge up […]
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Looking for fall leaves on a family ride (Marymoor Park to Woodinville)
As a mom of boys there really is no point asking if we can go get family pictures in the beautiful autumn leaves. This is what will happen: “Awww….mom!” Boy #1 “Awww…mom!!!!” Boy #2 “Do we have too?” Boy #3. The husband. So instead I ask if we want to bike ride and then I […]
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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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A place worth visiting just to charge your car (Quallicum Beach, Vancouver Island)
September 30, 2015We were in a sun-filled cafe called Sobo on the northern tip of Vancouver Island in Tofino when a gentleman came up to us and asked “is that your car out there” and wondered if electric cars were feasible on the island. We were actually a little worried that we would have difficulty finding places […]
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Oh Joy and cake memories to get me through a Monday
September 28, 2015Oh weekend! Why are you so fleeting? We made a brief stop in Vancouver this weekend because I had tickets to the IDSWest, a stylish design conference and I thought we’d celebrate the hubby’s birthday with some friends while we were there too. The conference took place at the Vancouver Convention Centre and this building […]
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The best way to see a bear up close (Woodland Park Zoo)
September 24, 2015My sister who is an animal lover recently watched a horrific grizzly hunt that somehow made its way into her Facebook feed and it totally disturbed her so much even days after she saw it that she told me not to watch it-EVER. She described it as the story of a beautiful trapped bear who […]
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Two great shout-outs for Seattle Public Library at the #IFBC
September 21, 2015Are you as scared as I am that our kids won’t have libraries one day? Every time I buy books on Amazon, I make sure I use the “smile” site at www.smile.amazon.com instead of just regular Amazon.com so the company can give a percentage of my purchase back to non-profits and I choose Seattle Public […]
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Lacing up the running shoes and getting ready for the Woodinville Half Marathon
September 12, 2015When I was contacted a few weeks about a new run in Woodinville put on by Destination Races Wine Country Half Marathons, I was excited to try it but was a little worried because I am in no shape to run a half and I didn’t think I would have enough time to train. My […]
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10 or so kid-friendly food options on Vancouver Island
September 10, 2015We just spent a lovely week on Vancouver Island and I never realized how EASY it is to travel there from Seattle. Since we’ve been doing a lot of road trips by electric car lately, it was a perfect road-trip with the kids from Seattle and we covered a lot of ground and never hit […]
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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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