Author: Caroline

Cheap and tasty, that is my life motto. Pagliacci’s made the BEST pesto pasta salad but they discontinued it! Emily used to order it for meetings and I would need an entire vat to myself. The Seattle Times ran a very detailed knockoff recipe: https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/15257161/. I picked up the ingredients at TJ’s. It works out…

Back on the new playground beat: Cascade Park in Renton has a HUGE purple slide. Super chill neighborhood park (no restrooms). Here’s my story for ParentMap.

2nd grade and 6th grade!

I have a pencil problem. There are pencils in my stash that are literally from the ’80s because they are “too special” to use. Time to sharpen them, or hoard them another 30+ years?

The Jaguar Jog is back! Paul has watched this event from the sidelines for many years; he finally got his turn.

Savoring the last of summer. Second-to-last farmer’s market of the season.

Going out as a family gets expensive really fast — but not at Valley Forge! Free admission, free parking, beautifully maintained grounds. LOVE the National Park Service. Valley Forge became the 4th largest “city” in the colonies when George Washington and his 12,000 troops made their winter camp here in 1777.

Not too cool to run up the Rocky steps! Going into the art museum felt like coming home. I used to be a member and I miss it so much. There is no way you could ever see everything in this museum, not in a million years.

Because you can’t go to Philly and not eat a cheesesteak. Wit Whiz!

Joseph’s middle name is Wyeth, so you could say I’m a bit of a fan. Taking the kids to the Brandywine for a tour of the Wyeth home and studio was essential to me. It was every bit as gorgeous as I’d remembered it. Twenty years ago, I was shooting a basketball thing at Villanova,…