Category: The Seattle Times

I wrote my first guest op-ed, about why we should keep reading Dr. Seuss. It’s in today’s Seattle Times, and the comments on this thread are .

Parents with tweens and teens, where do your kids go to play?? At 9, Joseph is by far the oldest kid at the playground, but he LOVES a good playground and so do I. I wrote this story about super cool playgrounds in today’s Seattle Times, including our all-time favorite.

Our playground trip got cut short by that crazy hailstorm, so as a consolation prize, we went on a boba run. (Soft opening was this weekend for Tea King, 1600 Dexter.) The boba was good, but the tofu pudding was 😋💓🔥. I always feel guilty about the throwaway plastic that comes with boba, so I…

Rooms at Lake Quinault Lodge are half off through May 13, weekends included, no blackout dates!! You know I can’t resist a good deal. The kids had so much fun watching cable TV and swimming in the hotel pool. Oh yeah, and the trees and stuff in Olympic National Park were pretty cool too. You…

Pretzel pizza, inspired by Pete the Cat (current obsession). Not brave enough to try pepperoni/papaya/pistachio/pickle/pretzel/popcorn pizza though.

Sigh.

To the people who lived in this house before us: thank you for planting all these beautiful perennials, and I’m sorry I don’t take better care of your garden. These guys just popped up and they make me so happy.

There are two kinds of people in this world, the kind that waits in line and the kind that will not. Me, I’m definitely a line person when it comes to food. No surer sign of something delicious when there’s a line out the door and down the block. My reward after a 25-minute wait…

We used Joseph’s 9-and-three-quarters birthday as an excuse to throw a Harry Potter party! By “party,” I mean just the three of us, cake, balloons and a bunch of free printables. We’re on our second run through the series on Audible, and I made a big fuss about this 9-and-three-quarters birthday to encourage a love…

Seen on a neighborhood walk today. We went from winter to spring in 48 hours!