Oh, I love it when we have a great holiday and today’s definitely one we need to celebrate! It’s National Doughnut day and what could be better than making some donuts? In the winter the guys and I tried to make doughnuts. They were pretty enough and tasted fine, but if I’m going to eat […]
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I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned Tacos Guaymas before: specifically the one in Fremont. We used to go there all the time before the guys were born because they have really inexpensive and yummy tacos. We could eat two tacos for under 5 dollars and they were stuffed to the brim and delicious. The atmosphere […]
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A long time ago in Vancouver, I used to spend a lot of time on weekends going to Japanese school, shopping and eating around the city. Some mornings we’d stop in at Fujiya, a shop that’s still there selling Japanese pantry products and really yummy and inexpensive bentos and sushi. While my mom and sister […]
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So I’m still doing this running thing. I don’t like to talk about it a lot because it’s oh so time consuming that I don’t like it spilling over to all my other stuff but a friend convinced me to re-sign up for a half-marathon and I did. And because it’s the only place I […]
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Sometimes the hardest thing about being in an adventurous place with kids is when you want to go exploring and you know that it could be really tough on them. In the Mayan Riviera, I totally wanted to see ancient ruins and swim in cenotes. (There is zip-lining too, but we did that recently in […]
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When you cook with kids there is so much time spent moving chairs around so they can reach the counter or being careful with things like eggs or cups of milk or half-opened bags of chocolate chips so that gravity doesn’t become your worst nightmare. I learned early on that with two guys wanting to help […]
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The Skagit River bridge collapse last week made me think about the way we get to places and how much I take these structures for granted. We crossed that bridge so many times between Seattle and Vancouver when I was a kid and it was very eerie to see it with a great big gap […]
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Where can you go with Atlanta as your base? I couldn’t believe Cancun was only a two hour flight away. You can practically walk to Florida. And all the Caribbean Islands are just a hop away too. (As a west-coaster I got a little bit envious about how many fabulous places were so close on […]
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The guys are absolutely in love with Recess Monkey since we saw them in concert at Teatro Zinzanni last year and we were recently sent their new album, (their 9th!!! by the way!) Deep Sea Diver to check out. The tunes are really catchy and I know I’ve heard them sing one of them called […]
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I love stuff by Philosophy and I’ve probably bought a small fortune in their company over the years from face wash and shower gel to creams and eye makeup removers. One of my favorite things about their products, other than the fact that they seem to work pretty well and seem ‘good for you,’ is […]
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As with all our trips, we are always excited to see animal friends on our travels and at the Georgia Aquarium I had a mission: a co-worker had told my husband that you can actually swim with whale sharks on Isla Holbox and Isla Mujeres in Mexico and the hubby wanted me to take the […]
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I got an email about a month ago about Tillamook wanting to send us some yogurt for review. My guys (all of them-the hubby included) eat yogurt almost every day for breakfast and one of our favorites is Tillamook so of course I said yes. (And I’m starting to realize that these are two 4-year […]
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Normally, we rent a car when we holiday so it doesn’t really matter where we stay, but this past trip in Atlanta I knew I would be doing a lot of adventures with the kids on my own while the hubby worked all day so I didn’t really want to have the burden of trying […]
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A few weeks ago we were sitting in a lovely restaurant in Atlanta after a long red eye flight and the hubby thought his coffee tasted really good. He made a note of it just in case it was roasted in Atlanta and we had time to stop by. Imagine our surprise when we found […]
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Long before the kids, the hubby and I used to like to hike around Seattle, and now that our kids are a little older, we’re having fun exploring trails with them too and we’re always looking for kid-friendly Seattle hikes. With kids you have to be a little bit more choosy when you plan your […]
Read MoreI’m lucky that the hubby keeps up with passport and international travel news. We’ve had a Nexus card forever and it’s saved us hours going back and forth to see family in Canada. Recently he heard of the Global Entry program and it sounded like a great program to reduce time in airport lines when we travel […]
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I keep tons of stickers on hand. They are great for adding extra pizzazz to crafts and they’re so handy when you travel as long as they don’t get stuck on windows or other things but I’m usually stuck in the middle of the duo so it’s easy to keep tabs. The hubby recently bought […]
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I’m on the Chihuly Garden and Glass mailing list and when I saw it was their first anniversary this week I couldn’t believe it’s already been around a year and I haven’t visited them yet. My mom and dad were in town and up for some touristy things so we decided this would be a […]
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There are some days when you get that type of epiphany where you know you’ve learned something that you’re going to keep with you forever. Today that magic came from goddess Martha. Thank you for the One-Pan Pasta recipe I found in your latest magazine. (The one I have that’s covered in drool because the […]
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Sitting at the bus stop near our house I got a text from my neighbor that went something like: “omg my hubby just saw you at the bus stop-we could have totally given you a ride to the airport!!” And as much as that was so totally sweet and we probably looked ridiculous sitting there […]
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