Author: Caroline

Snacks from Taiwan to Indiana to Seattle!

Chemistry lesson: Combining compounds, a solid and a liquid to make a gas. Never gets old. We also swirled sugar cubes in water at three temperatures (room temp, icy and microwaved) to see which one would dissolve the sugar fastest.

Remember complaining about having to cover press conferences? Yeah, don’t take that life for granted. It has now been almost two DECADES (!!?) since my last press conference and it was strangely soothing to go to one today. The stars aligned perfectly: A. I happened to have my gear with me. B. The presser took…

Beautiful day at RoozenGaarde. I cannot get enough of these flowers!

Southcenter has allllll the Taiwanese snacks. There’s Meet Fresh, which has the best bubble tea and tofu pudding. And 85 degrees C, where I stock up on at least one of everything. Din Tai Fung was packed, so we didn’t go in, but we got to watch them making those beautiful little balls of yumminess…

For Joseph’s 11th birthday, I baked a cake like the one Hagrid made for Harry’s 11th, and filled the upstairs shower (which we never use) with balloons. Joseph looks forward to that balloon mosh pit all year; amazing how a $1 bag of balloons makes all his dreams come true.

Another item to add to the list of “last time we did this was 2019”: Seattle Children’s Theatre! “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” was absolutely adorable. My review is on ParentMap here.

Look closely at these petals and you’ll see it’s actually a tiny purple checkerboard. This flower has been popping up in our yard every spring and I finally found out what it’s called: fritillaria meleagris. Tulips and azaleas in our front garden beds, the time of year when our yard briefly looks really pretty before…

Last night, we went on a date with dinosaurs! Dinos Alive, which opened today, is a new immersive exhibition in Sodo. It’s put on by the same people doing the Van Gogh show; the dinosaurs are in another section of the same warehouse. Here’s a link to my story on ParentMap.

A friend treated us to a skate session at the new Kraken practice facility. Very fancy!