Category: The Seattle Times

From our yard!

It was a tough assignment, but someone had to do it: I ate ALL THE DESSERTS for story research. Destination desserts on ParentMap here!

The garden grows despite our neglect. The peas are taller than Paul!

Who eats booger and vomit flavored candy? (Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. If you know, you know.)

I asked Paul what he liked best about our beach vacation to Seabrook. Was it the borrowed pup? The s’mores? Walking on the beach at sunset? Playing musical chairs and tag at the park, he said. All four of us together. Well sheesh, we could have done that IN OUR HOUSE minus the 6-hour drive…

It was a beautiful day for a ferry ride, and apparently half of Seattle thought so too. I’ve never seen such a long line for walk-ons or for Mora’s. We had a fun day walking around Winslow, and the boys were super excited to spot a BC plate (!) on the ferry.

The tide was out to -3 this afternoon, so we went to explore the pocket park at the Olympic Sculpture Park. So… the boys probably aren’t going to grow up to be marine biologists (I tried) but they were happy to visit their favorite sculptures.

I have never been so excited to eat a cactus! Lychee rose succulent cupcakes from FogRose Atelier.

The first bloom of the season. Means we’ve made it through another year without me killing our rose bushes!

Paul picked out his cake at Trader Joe’s and we dumped an entire jar of sprinkles on it. This kid looooves to draw, and he was so happy with his new giant bucket of chalk. Then he and Joseph played hide-and-seek together in the back yard. Six is super!