We aren’t totally ready for Christmas yet. There are a million presents to wrap in our basement despite the diligent wrapping efforts the hubby and I have been putting in between episodes of Friday Night Lights and vain attempts to exercise at the gym. But it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The […]
Read MoreThese are a few of my favorite things: Don’t you love how packaging is sometimes so much better than the actual gift or thing inside the box with kids? We recently got some things in the mail and the brown paper packaging was too fun not to play with! And I can’t help but reminisce […]
Read MoreI think my guys got horse poo in their advent calendar today: (It’s the horse theme one by Playmobil. Does anyone else have this advent calendar for their kids?) I wasn’t too sure but then I looked a little closer and this was all that was in Day 19. What else could it be? Is […]
Read More“Where’s your wishlist? ” the hubby asked me smugly after I made him watch the Glee Christmas Episode. “Me? I don’t have one. I have everything I need, “said the Good Wife. Well, almost everything I need…. So Love, if you really want to know, this Christmas I’m just wishing for a little bit of […]
Read MoreBefore my sister moved there, I didn’t really know much about Steveston BC. And now, it’s even all over tv with a new show called Once Upon A Time where it goes by the name Storybrooke. The boys were thrilled this summer when we went to get one of our favorite treats (Screamers, of course! […]
Read MoreI have to admit right now I’m a little jealous of my friends with little girls. I love the mom and daughter nails thing. I dream about doing Disney Princess tea. And when I heard in Daily Candy that my favorite local hairdo place Swink is doing Mom and Daughter hairdos I had a little […]
Read MoreBest three dollars I’ve spent in a while and you can even use a credit card these days. This photobooth is one of the only ones I know about in Seattle and I hope it’s still there. This photobooth is in Westlake Center. You see it immediately when you come off the monorail near the […]
Read MoreWe’ve been pretty busy this last little while taking many different holiday classes. A really neat one we tried this week was the kids’ baking class at the PCC grocery store. We learned how to make an egg-free gingerbread recipe which is awesome when you cook with kids and worry about them eating raw-egg. The […]
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I was not expecting the Jurong Bird Park to be on my list of places I want to see again when we go back to Singapore. I’ve never really been a fan of birds: they fly around, poo overhead, have very sharp knife-like beaks and pretty much just creep me out. But, this place is […]
Read MoreThere are no words for this one. I gave my toddler boy an iphone while I was busy doing an errand and needed him to be quiet so I let him do the draw anything screen. Of course my phone comes back like this after a few minutes of silence and then a round of […]
Read MoreLet’s make a deal. If you have only met me for a few moments and don’t realize that I’m just lounging boorishly in the comfort of my own passenger seat in the front of my own MINIVAN while waiting for a ferry to arrive with two crazed boys wildly singing in the back, please don’t […]
Read MoreIf only these came in the boys’ size…. I got all festive after I took Trophy Cupcakes cupcake decorating class last night. It was such a fun night-we learned from the owner Jennifer, herself, and she is such a sweet and creative lady-I was totally in awe. There was champagne and cupcakes to nibble on […]
Read MoreOn Wednesdays I try and participate in Wordless Wednesdays where you just post pictures but I’m not good with having no words so I just try and write less than I usually do: Here’s what happened when I put out the turkey craft I bought at Michaels for the boys while I did the dishes. […]
Read MoreThe nice thing about going to visit Santa on a rainy day at a Christmas tree farm is that you don’t have a line and the kids get a chance to “really talk” to the big guy and tell him what they want. Santa and wishlists are such a big deal right now in our […]
Read MoreThe boys and I were looking through all the flyers that have been arriving with the paper lately. “I don’t want a bird poo Christmas tree” Leelee says. If you want one, you can buy it here. We did not get that one-we cut ours this morning at our favorite Christmas tree farm. The weather […]
Read MoreIn an ideal world, I’d sleep all day Thursday in preparation for my favorite holiday of the year-Black Friday-but two 3-year old boys and a husband who loathes shopping is a huge obstacle on game day and efficiency, planning and a lot more online than real-world shopping is my current game-plan. So five things […]
Read MoreWhere are all the days going? I decided late last night that I do want to make ornaments for the boys’ advent calendar and so now I’m guaranteed to have at least two homemade felt ornaments for them to find. (I have to make 2.444 a night for the 9 evenings until December 1st if […]
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I’ll have to admit, I was a little scared taking two newly toilet trained boys to Asia. Were we going to have to revert back to diapers? Would it be a giant poo disaster everyday? I was so thankful to find that the places we visited in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo were even more […]
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I recently bought this do it yourself advent calendar with hopes of creating something homemade for my house for Christmastime. Unfortunately the company forgot to include the directions and I have been to lazy to do anything about it. Sadly, this is how it will probably remain until next year. (Don’t tell the hubby.) A […]
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One of the reasons I love living in the Northwest so much is that we get to wake up to fabulous days where the air is crisp, the leaves are colorful and piles just beckon for kids to jump in. On days like these even breakfast smiles! And although it seems like Christmas is in […]
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