If you live in Seattle or anywhere else in the Pacific Northwest for that matter, what do you do in summer when the kids get out of school? Do you plan for big vacations? Do you stick around town? We usually tend to stay in Seattle in the summer and we like to make a […]
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Some days in Seattle my life seems like its only about picking up all the laundry, cleaning up last nights’ dinner dishes and researching how to get the ugly carpet out of my basement. Then some days magically end up Cinderella wonderful and I get to try fancy things. I love when the universe lines […]
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I’ve been asked this question a ton lately and I thought I better address it somewhere so I can at least send this link out as a response. And this is usually the first of two questions I get asked because right after I get asked “How do you become a blogger?” I get asked […]
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Family trips are more than just booking an accommodation somewhere that is not your home and magically arriving there instantly. The journey often starts way before the trip begins and with kids so much of the journey depends on the snacks that we bring. One of my kids’ favorite snacks are apple sauce pouches- they’ve […]
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I have always dreamed of one day having my own little store and I’ve finally figured out how. I now have a shop on Amazon and you can “shop with Terumi” by clicking through this link to my online store! On Mondays I will add 5 new things that I’m shopping for and hopefully you’ll […]
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As with most things in my life before becoming a mom of boys, I cared as little about airplanes as I did about garbage trucks, diggers, bulldozers, buses and UPS delivery vehicles. But my guys have been enthralled with airplanes and everything travel since their first hotel stay at the Westin Grand Vancouver when they […]
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My kids are starting to grow up a bit and the need for me to find a kid-friendly restaurant ASAP or a play area that’s not too crowded before nap-time is not dire anymore, but I get asked a lot from friends and family who are traveling with kids what they can do in Seattle. […]
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Isn’t family travel planning a little overwhelming? If you only have 10 days in Italy or any place for that matter, how are you going to experience everything you want to see and how on earth are you going to do that with kids in tow? This is totally how I felt when we ended […]
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I was a little hesitant to try some chocolate hazelnut spread Moms Meet sent me to try and review because I was worried I might get addicted. I read that it had no palm oil in it (I’m trying to avoid palm oil) and it comes from Italy so it sounded too good to be […]
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Let me start by telling you that on this particular trip I had other grown up successes. I hung up all my clothes from my suitcase in my hotel closet and I never do that ever. Who has time for this kind of thing on vacation anyways? And I am always so paranoid about forgetting […]
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It seems almost a hundred years ago now when I was a new twin mom in Seattle and I still had a flip phone that I heard about a seemingly mythical drive through grocery store about an hour north of me. I was so envious of the people who lived nearby it who could just […]
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Remember in the old days when you plan a trip? Or even in the not-so-old days when you get a guidebook and plot out on a map all the interesting places you read about so you can find your way there. I used to have so much trouble reading maps properly I’d navigate us in […]
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With avid Lego fans in the house it is a no-brainer that Legoland would be one of my guys’ favorite places in the world. On a recent trip to Carlsbad I was excited when Legoland gave me tickets for the boys and I to go while the hubby was at a conference. I was a […]
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Better yet, why not go and check your passport expiration now and put a little reminder maybe 6 months before it in your calendar to make sure you review it in time. Even if you’re always responsible and always do these types of things. Even if you never forget. Because we were the people who […]
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If traveling to Kauai with your family is on your radar then you need to start thinking about accommodations soon-especially if your holidays happen during President’s Day or Spring Break. Here are eight tips we have from booking a recent trip we took for seven days in Kauai with kids in tow: Sign up for […]
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If you’re a Seattleite and shop at Metropolitan Market, you might notice the enormous selection of chocolates right by the checkout stand. It’s nearly impossible to miss, especially if you love chocolate like I do and the last time we visited Met Market there was even a sample stand to tempt us with delicious treats! […]
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In the next couple weeks I have a feeling my family and I will be buying all the video alarm monitoring things for our houses in bulk. We live in a quiet Seattle neighborhood with not a lot of happenings, but lately we’ve seen more and more suspicious activity in the area and what happened […]
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This post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency on behalf of OshKosh B’gosh; however, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. There are two things we look for in clothes for my family-are they comfortable and can we wear them for multiple events? It’s even better if the clothing we buy travels well too because […]
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PS it’s 2024 now and while I love using my smartphone for pretty much everything, lately in Seattle, it’s felt really expensive to get delivery through food delivery apps. I haven’t had anything delivered in months now but just the other day I had a late meeting and my husband was out of town and […]
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**In September 2018 the Marriott Rewards program changed it’s Gold Elite Member Status rewards. We sadly no longer receive lounge privileges or breakfast at Marriott hotels. Hilton Honors Gold that we receive with our American Express Platinum card however includes continental breakfast with its booking so this is something we now take into consideration when […]
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