We moved into our 1 bedroom, high rise apartment in downtown Seattle when I was about 4 months pregnant with Babboo. We had just sold the house we had built ourselves. My emotions were a mess with the new pregnancy, an upcoming trip to Europe, and of course, packing up a house full of items [...]
No one really wants their kids to end up on jail, except maybe some parents of preschoolers who think any way they can get silence is worth it. That’s a fairly short period of time.
1. When your 2 year old is having a screaming fit on the floor of Target walk away. Really. The minute [...]
If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, here’s an event that you may want to check out — Pike Place Market is celebrating 100 years with Centennial Days!
The celebration kicks off today (Friday) and runs through the week. Events include lots of live music, a day of puppetry (Sunday) and a historic [...]
Living here, in the Pacific Northwest, we have an endless amount of things to do, places to visit and sights to see. And yet, am I the only one who frequents places like the zoo, the aquarium, the parks, the beach and the public market over and over again, missing the million other points of [...]
Now I’ve seen it all.
Just read this article about a Chinese couple who were “seeking a distinctive and modern name for their child” when they tried to name their baby the ‘at’ symbol. That’s right, a kid called @.
I can just imagine that poor kid trying to have a phone conversation wherein he tries to [...]
When I was a little girl I used to love to go to the library. Staring at all the myriad of books and seeing the complexity of the card catalog always left me in awe. Eventually I learned to use the old fashioned cards and soon I was checking out twenty books at a time [...]
The recent travel schedule of the dreadfully charming Mr. Right would put a touring rock band to shame. Vegas. China. California. Paris. Germany. England. New York. He’s become a Globetrotter and the list just keeps dribbling on.
All this distance has got me thinking.
It used to be I was weighted by his absence, carrying it in [...]
Mattel just issued several more toy recalls, including:
Pixar Cars “Sarge” figure
Polly Pocket
Barbie Doll and Tanner
Batman Magna
Doggie Daycare
Shonen Jump’s One piece
More information:
“Sarge” lead paint recall
Magnetic playsets recall
Dearest White Tahoe Driving Mommy in the Issaquah Costco parking lot,
I would like to thank you for the copious bumper stickers with which you have decorated your delicious SUV.
I appreciated the reading material while being stuck with melting ice cream, bored kids, and wilting salad bags in the Costco parking lot queue.
Also, without these, [...]
We’ve had a few email issues over the past week. They’re fixed; but unfortunately some emails may have been lost to the great Never Never Land that is the Internet.
So, if you emailed us in the last week and haven’t heard back, could you be so kind as to re-send your email? Odds are we didn’t get [...]