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North Seattle moms being propositioned by “MIL*F Hunters”

Note: I’ve intentionally misspelled MIL*F with an asterisk to avoid attracting the wrong kind of google search traffic.   The acronym is typically written without the asterisk.
Several local moms in the North Seattle area have been propositioned by a man claiming to be part of MIL*F Hunters.  (MIL*F, for those who don’t know, is the acronym made [...]

Lessons in Made In China, part I

So our family has hopped on the “Without Made in China” bandwagon. Only we aren’t limiting ourselves to a year. We are in hopes that if enough people start doing this, the retailers will start paying attention to the fact that we as Americans don’t like losing our jobs. We don’t like paying for cheap [...]

A novel idea

I’m considering signing up for a novel-writing class this November, and was thinking it’d be a lot more fun if someone I knew was there.  It’s once a week, on a weeknight, in Seattle. 
Email me at jenny@seattlemomblogs.com if you think you might be interested and I’ll send you the full details.

Fall Haikus

foggy moist air blows
we purchase bigger rainboots
preparing for rain
berries disappoint
hope climbs for crunchy apples
I eat my seasons
originally posted on Sept 13, 2007 at Bainbridge Breezes.
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“Halloween” candy. Riiiiiight.

Let’s be honest with ourselves, folks, even if the marketers won’t. It’s barely a third of the way through September. All that “Halloween” candy on the supermarket shelves really isn’t intended to last through Halloween. It’s intended to be eaten now, so that by the time Halloween actually does roll around, you have to go [...]

An Evening Worth Envying … A Night With Michael Buble

Whenever my sister and her husband are in town there is always an adventure waiting to happen. This time around they outdid themselves. They recently treated us poor college students to a night we will most likely always remember.The evening started with a dinner at the exquisite Palomino restaurant - thanks Lucy for the recommendation. [...]

weighing in

My anxiety rises. It permeates the house atmosphere, even more than dirty dog smell. From my first waking moment until I go to bed at night, a low level buzz is present.
The end of summer blues? No. The start of school for Kid? No. DH’s constant travel-schedule-and-subsequent-assimilation-back-into-the-family stress? No.
You see, DH has a project replacing [...]

Lazy, Lazy Mommies

Everyone once in a while, I see a young girl with a bowl cut, or even worse, a vintage, authentic Dorothy Hamill wedge. This really chaps my hide. Why? Because no little girl, no matter how tom- boyish or sporty, wants hair like that, at that age. This is the age of wanting to be [...]

mouse 464

Now, more than ever, we need your offers of prayers and support. Not for me, or Kid, or anyone else here in the house. It’s someone outside. A mouse.
Odd, random things always seem to happen the few times I get away. When I checked in by phone last night to see what DH was doing, [...]

To a deluxe apartment in the sky

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 [...]

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