Every 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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Oh my goodness. I love Beaucoup http://www.beaucoupbakery.com/bakery but it is so close to my favorite place in the world-GRANVILLE ISLAND-we’d often pass it by because Granville Island is a lot more kid-friendly to sit and stop. But not anymore. Hello perfect playground. (And it’s right across the street!!) The kids can alternate getting out their energy […]
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One of my sons has had a giraffe huggie he has loved since birth and if it’s not his spirit animal I don’t know what is. So the giraffes at the Dallas Zoo made him and us extremely happy. They were so majestic and interactive and they seemed to have a lot of free space […]
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When I told people I was going to Dallas, everyone told me about the cows in Fort Worth. You need to see the cows! THE COWS!!!! Kind of like that. So of course I was intrigued. I looked it up and found out the cows everyone was talking about are in a herd that gets […]
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Before I even realized this building was the Perot museum I was quite taken by it. We ate at a delicious Moroccan restaurant nearby (you might want to eat there too!) the night before our visit and I found the shape so intriguing that I was really excited when I realized this was actually the […]
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I wanted to do something “very Texas” in Texas and I noticed everyone posting pictures of bluebonnets when I was there. So I asked around and apparently spring is bluebonnet season and you need to get your picture sitting in the bluebonnets and the best place to see them near us was the “Bluebonnet Trail” […]
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We were a little bleary-eyed the morning of our Dallas Arboretum visit but I was excited to see the gardens and glad we could bring coffee in. We stopped in at a lovely coffee shop called Cultivar Coffee (they have a few shops but this one was the closest one to the Arboretum and we […]
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I’ve seen a wave of things being advertised for mom for Mother’s Day in the last few days and a few gems have caught my eye, especially if you live in the Seattle area. I love shopping at Uvillage (along with probably every other mom in Seattle) and the coolest gift idea I’ve seen are […]
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I had a few ideas of what I wanted to see in and around Dallas, Texas with our kids when we arrived there for a short trip a few weeks ago. We would go to the Art Museum (it’s FREE!), the Dallas Zoo, the Perot Museum, the Arboretum and we would spend a day at […]
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We hang out in Vancouver often since it is only about three hours north of Seattle and while it’s a city totally full of neat activities and food, some of our most glorious days have been made from simple and impromptu stops in the beautiful parks that are all over this city and its suburbs. […]
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One spectacular Christmas, my guys received Power Wheel Cars and they drove around my parent’s house like two speed demons trying to beat each other to any and every destination they could dream of. They both felt so powerful and free and they raced until their batteries were out of juice and needed to be […]
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We have a bunch of places where we like to take out food in Seattle when we just don’t feel like cooking. And waiting for our take-out from Chinooks at Fisherman’s Terminal is one of our favorite things to do. Apparently the boats from Deadliest Catch come here or used to come here-I’ve never watched […]
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My kids can’t help it in this city. It’s like you have to breathe Star Wars just to live in Seattle and this has become even more apparent since my guys started school where they alternate playing zombies and Star Wars on the playground. I think we live in the only city where I’ve ever […]
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This memory could have ended with that delightfully full feeling you get after you eat a good meal but it’s going to be in my heart for a while. We were in Los Angeles for a wedding and I’d seen the lovely macarons from Bottega Louie in one of my social media feeds and filed […]
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All it will take is another big storm like the crazy thunder and hailstorm we had here the other night and we probably won’t be seeing these beauties again until next spring and I can already tell by my instagram feed that many of you have now moved on to tulips so I guess the […]
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Years ago when we went to California with the kids for the first time, we fell in love with Crystal Cove where we ate at the Beachcomber restaurant, saw some dolphins swimming and played in the sand. I forgot to get reservations for that restaurant on our last visit to California and found it was […]
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Monday is hard to stomach sometimes and today I need my kids to swallow the vaccines we are taking to go on an upcoming trip and I didn’t realize how hard it is to get a child to take medication. I totally forgot we might need to get vaccines to go to Belize and I […]
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I’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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According to my kids, I can’t be Auntie Terumi. They think it sounds weird. You are Auntie Tee now, they told me as I tucked them in tonight. Auntie T? No, that doesn’t make the right sound. How do you spell tea like the tea you drink? T-E-A? Well you are T-E-E. Auntie T-E-E. Auntie […]
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My little guys are big fans of macarons and every time we walk into a bakery that sells them, it feels like it could be Macaron Day, but I didn’t realize that Macaron Day is actually a thing until I was buying some pastries at Le Panier this morning and saw their gorgeous new stickers […]
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