seattle
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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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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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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The biggest pizza in all our land (Ballroom Fremont, Seattle)
July 30, 2015We 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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Not just another pretty landmark (Space Needle, Seattle)
July 24, 2015It’s starting to become a tradition that every year on their birthday my guys decide that the SkyCity restaurant at the Space Needle is where they want their birthday feast. Of course they love this place because I’m terrified of it. (Ahh…karma.) Yes, it’s a fabulous beacon that helps me easily find Seattle Center and […]
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A family friendly hike that’s a no-brainer if you have a 4×4 but still doable if you don’t (Mirror Lake, Snoqualmie Pass, WA)
July 16, 2015A few weeks ago when we had the use of a decked-out Toyota 4-Runner the hubby reminisced about camping and hiking trips from bygone days when we used to borrow his aunt’s 4-runner and explore. He found a hike in Snoqualmie Pass where we’ve been hanging out a lot lately and it seemed pretty kid-friendly […]
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A very pinterest-worthy and maybe the best playground in Seattle so far (Artists at Play, Seattle Center)
July 13, 2015I always read these lists of best playgrounds in the world and there are never any west coast, North American playgrounds in them. Maybe people think we get too much rain here? Or maybe we keep our parks a secret. But lately we’ve had endless sunny skies and we’ve been outdoors all the time and […]
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Another Seattle family ride: Gasworks Park to University Village
July 2, 2015Call us multi-taskers, but my kids have set me to the task of visiting 50 different parks this summer and they also want to bike ride so we decided to bike from Gas Works Park to some new-to-us park on the Burke-Gilman Trail a few miles past Uvillage. But it was hot. I was grouchy. […]
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A U-pick strawberry patch that’s not too far from Seattle (Al Duris Strawberry Farm, Kent, WA)
June 5, 2015(PS. the Duris Strawberry farm in Kent just opened for U-Pick for the 2022 season June 15.) I was not supposed to go strawberry picking. I am picking out cabinets for our cabin and with all the end of school things I didn’t realize kindergarteners do, it was not high on my priority list. But, […]
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Upping the bar even more for coffee art in Seattle (Moore Coffee, Seattle)
May 20, 2015My kids are so jealous of a breakfast my husband and I had without them. We figured out that one of my guys is really into coffee art on our past trip to Dallas and it’s made us seek out pretty coffees in Seattle too just to see how he reacts. I’ve been dying to […]
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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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Imagining we’re cruising to Alaska for the first time (with Holland America in Seattle)
May 13, 2015Every summer in Seattle we see the shiny white cruise ships sail into their berths at the pier and I always wonder what it might be like to get on one, cast off and drift away to Alaska. Our family is curious to know if we’re cruisers: I am a free-spirit and the hubby likes […]
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My current favorite lunch spot in Pike Place Market (Seattle, WA)
March 26, 2015I’ve been volunteering at the Pike Place Market in Seattle for a little while now and I’m still surprised that every time I visit I find some place that’s new to me. There are so many neat little shops and vendors and they are all so unique-the other day I found myself in a corridor […]
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A place that makes my family feel strong (Seattle Bouldering Project)
March 3, 2015Raaaaawwr!!!! Can you believe how strong you feel when you are bouldering? Long before the kids were born the hubby and I got into rock climbing but that all stopped once the kids were born. But recently they’ve been going bouldering and I was excited when they asked me to take them for my first […]
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Best breakfast with a 6 year old and other things to do in Whistler with kids in tow
February 24, 2015Before you go and think I’m going to tell you to get to Purebread for breakfast with your kids in Whistler, I’m not. I do love this bakery, but it’s more of a place I go to for a pastry and coffee and not at breakfast especially because I have a weakness for something they […]
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Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle 2025
February 13, 2015I happen to be the type of person who could probably kill plants just by looking at them, but every year I like to visit the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival and pretend that I could possibly be a garden whisperer and this keeps me totally happy all spring. This Northwest Flower and Garden festival […]
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