TRAVEL

Come In Winter (when we get snow in Seattle)

January 19, 2012

This 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, […]

Snow Day

January 18, 2012

After 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 […]

Books, Babies and a Brief Encounter at the Seattle Aquarium

January 14, 2012

The 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 […]

Photo Friday: Jaguars swimming at the Singapore Zoo

Jaguars can swim. I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it at this zoo. We love the Singapore Zoo by the way. And now we know that jaguars can swim and it seemed like they could even smell raw chicken in water from the shore. Each time they dipped underwater they came […]

great membership deal at seattle aquarium with kids

Wordless Wednesday: Active Octopus at the Seattle Aquarium

January 11, 2012

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 […]

Anjou 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 […]

Fragile Forest (Singapore Zoo, Singapore)

January 10, 2012

Seeing this little lemur on Trader Joe’s Cinnamon and Black Tea at Christmas made me all nostalgic and dreamy for our recent Singapore trip and I had to buy it. I love Trader Joe’s holiday products-I have so many whim purchases there at this time of year! A couple months ago we traveled to my […]

Take me back

January 4, 2012

If 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 […]

2/366

January 3, 2012

Two days in and I’ve already sort of broken two of my resolutions. We were going to try and eat out less in 2012. And then we ate out tonight. We couldn’t even make it through the first week without eating out, so I think I’m going to addend my resolution to say that […]

(French) Toasting out 2011 with one last yummy breakfast

December 31, 2011

I 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 […]

Sensoji Temple (Tokyo, Japan)

December 30, 2011

The boys recently got hooked on the book I Can Read with My Eyes Shut, by Dr. Seuss and in it the big cat explains to the little cat, “the more that you read, the more you will know and the more that you learn the more places you will go.” I hope if we can […]

Putting the Finishing touches on Christmas 2011

December 22, 2011

We 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 […]

Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

December 21, 2011

These are a few of my favorite things: Don’t you love how packaging is sometimes so much better than the actual gift or thing inside the box with kids? We recently got some things in the mail and the brown paper packaging was too fun not to play with! And I can’t help but reminisce […]

Alright 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 […]

Trip to Storybrooke (Steveston, BC)

December 16, 2011

Before my sister moved there, I didn’t really know much about Steveston BC. And now, it’s even all over tv with a new show called Once Upon A Time where it goes by the name Storybrooke. The boys were thrilled this summer when we went to get one of our favorite treats (Screamers, of course! […]

Little Toy Trains. Part One.

December 15, 2011

I have to admit right now I’m a little jealous of my friends with little girls. I love the mom and daughter nails thing. I dream about doing Disney Princess tea. And when I heard in Daily Candy that my favorite local hairdo place Swink is doing Mom and Daughter hairdos I had a little […]

Photobooth Shenanigans

December 14, 2011

Best three dollars I’ve spent in a while and you can even use a credit card these days. This photobooth is one of the only ones I know about in Seattle and I hope it’s still there. This photobooth is in Westlake Center. You see it immediately when you come off the monorail near the […]

Prata and other foods at Singapore's Changi Airport

Jurong Bird Park (Singapore)

December 8, 2011

I was not expecting the Jurong Bird Park to be on my list of places I want to see again when we go back to Singapore. I’ve never really been a fan of birds: they fly around, poo overhead, have very sharp knife-like beaks and pretty much just creep me out. But, this place is […]

If you give a toddler boy an Iphone…

There are no words for this one. I gave my toddler boy an iphone while I was busy doing an errand and needed him to be quiet so I let him do the draw anything screen. Of course my phone comes back like this after a few minutes of silence and then a round of […]

Two and one on the way?

December 6, 2011

Let’s make a deal. If you have only met me for a few moments and don’t realize that I’m just lounging boorishly in the comfort of my own passenger seat in the front of my own MINIVAN while waiting for a ferry to arrive with two crazed boys wildly singing in the back, please don’t […]