When 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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We 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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We live in Seattle where our lovely teachers are trying to guarantee that ALL of our kids get enough recess among other things like not having to work for free (no one should work for free!) and I totally adore anyone who stands up for my kids. So we may or may not have a […]
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If we remember one thing about the summer of 2015, it is that this was the summer we really embraced the road trip in our family. There are so many fabulous places within driving distance of Seattle and our newest obsession with driving electric has given us a fun reason to get out and explore. […]
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A 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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Remember the beginning of summer when it seemed like we had forever just to do whatever we wanted to do? It seems so far away now that school is on the horizon in Seattle and the sky gets just a little darker earlier and eating ice cream cones in the evening means putting on a […]
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The 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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It seems that a good city can never have too many markets or dogs and thankfully in Seattle both are abundant. If we happen to be downtown Seattle and somehow make our way to our favorite window full of puppies we can stand there for hours and we tend to get hungry. I thought about […]
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Some weekends are more exciting than others and this one I’m truly ecstatic about. It might be because two of my favorite littles are coming for a visit. There is nothing cuter in my world than when the big twins and little twins get together. Friday you might want to check out a fabulous night […]
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As 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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I 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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I remember being a teenager. I had the horrific glasses, braces and bad hair combination that I was always terrified I’d see broadcast as the poster child for the 80’s on Facebook. Becoming a teenager was not my favorite life event. But this past week the hubby and I reached the 13 year mark in […]
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A couple months ago someone from the Hands on Children’s Museum contacted me about their upcoming Sand Festival and I mentioned that not only did I not know about the festival, we had not visited the Hands On Children’s Museum yet. You must visit, they said. And so we did. Oh my goodness. How have […]
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I already have mad love for Trophy Cupcakes-it is the most adorable cupcake shop in Seattle (Especially the original one in Wallingford that is housed in an old school building) and we have a plethora of cupcake shops here to choose from. And not only does it have delicious cupcakes, but the owner, Jennifer Shea, […]
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So 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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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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It’s a great time for electric cars in Seattle right now-everyday it seems like we see more and more on the road and I even noticed a bus advertising AAA emergency roadside charging service for electric vehicles and they have a lot of resources on their website too. This type of thing makes road trips […]
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It’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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If 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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A 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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