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Category: The Seattle Times

  • Beach staycation

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    I love going to the beach… and then coming home to clean up and have lunch at our house. So much easier than schelpping everything to a cottage rental. (Or so I’m telling myself this year.) The outer lots at Golden Gardens are open, and you can get a spot if you go in the…

  • Where to eat in the ID

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    I loved doing this story for Resy about the most delicious neighborhood in the city. So thankful to all the people who gave me their best restaurant recs — they’re making me hungry! Let’s go and eat! Here’s a link my story about Seattle’s ID, which is part of a national Chinatown story.

  • Learn science and math by playing outside

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    Ideas for learning outside! I personally tested all of them and I promise you, none of them require tons of prep work (who has time for that?). Our favorite is the math target game — my kids absolutely LOVE it and we’ve made going on “math walks” a regular thing. My story is in The…

  • Yakult!

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    Remember drinking yang le duo when we were little? I’d forgotten about them, until Yakult popped up in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” Those bottles seem a lot smaller now!

  • Jump start

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    Aaaaand kindergarten jump start is a wrap! I feel like everyone is busy pooh-poohing virtual kindergarten (it’s not ideal, obviously), but the teachers really tried to make the best of the situation. Paul loved the activities in his goody bag.

  • Mini golf

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    Mini golf, it turns out, is a surprisingly COVID-friendly activity. It’s outdoors, there’s built-in social distancing — and it cost all of $13 for our family. My story is on ParentMap here.

  • Kindergarten readiness, 2020 style

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    Kindergarten tips I wrote for Seattle’s Child back in January (I mean, “small children need screentime?”) … versus kindergarten tips I wrote in August. 😫🤦‍♀️

  • Being homeowners

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    If money were no object, what would you do? Chris: Paint the house, trim the trees. Me: New roof, electric heating and cooling, hire regular landscapers. Eleven years of marriage, 2 kids and a mortgage later, what fun, wild people we’ve become.

  • Elastiboy

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    My human 🥨. 😲

  • Roses

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    Our lawn is yellow and crunchy and full of weeds, but our rose bushes have gone nuts. If this is what it looks like under complete neglect, imagine what it’d look like if we actually took care of it.