Author: Caroline

There’s nothing better than a playground crawl, except when said playground crawl culminates in a stack of bánh mì. I picked up these $5 beauties at Lan Huê Bakery along with giant buns with quail egg and salted egg and savory pastries stuffed with meatballs, salty egg and pork floss. Gotta love the customer service…

I saw this light while breakfast was steaming away and couldn’t resist making a picture. Here’s an ode to the rice cooker I wrote for TODAY Food.

Best ever description of parenthood: Planned obsolescence. I make my remote learners do chores during their stretch breaks and recess. I’m not a mean mommy, I’m teaching them life skills. I wrote about kid chores for TODAY Parents here, and that’s my kitchen next to Severus Snape and Chrissy Teigen!

It’s warming up nicely (finally) and those cherry blossoms aren’t going to last much longer!

Do you love spring cleaning? Does sweeping up the cobwebby corners of the basement sound like a good time to you? I love a deep cleaned house, but I hate the actual process of cleaning. If you dread spring cleaning too, these tips from pro cleaners will make the task more efficient and manageable. My…

My haul from Jade Garden. I asked for four egg tarts; they gave me four ORDERS of egg tarts instead. Couldn’t let the extras go to waste, so… .

Cherry blossoms and tulips popping up everywhere in our neighborhood, but we decided to have another go at the snow before packing away the snow stuff for the season. Sledding in April!! Best part was we slept in and moseyed up the mountain and got a spot no problem (there were only a handful of…

Fourth grade science lesson: Amount of sugar people 200 years ago ate in a day (2 teaspoons), vs. amount of sugar people eat in a day now (22 teaspoons).

An extremely cold and wet day at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The boys only looking excited because I’m promising them ice cream! ice cream! (Funny how that works, ice cream makes them smile even when they are shivering and soaked and it’s raining sideways.) Tulips won’t be out for another week at least, but…