Posted in Fun Pile, Getting Things Done on Dec 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
After coffee and breakfast with Dave the house guest, we sent him off to meet his traveling companion filled with all sorts of ideas for how to spend their day. Last night we all had dinner with Heartichoke and husband at The 5 Spot – a great little “spot” on the top of Queen Anne [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Oct 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
This weekend we have the kids from our babysitting co-op all night and all day tomorrow so our friends can get out of town. Which means we have five kids. Which means I’m making breakfast for five kids. Which means we’re taking five kids trick-or-treating at our neighborhood Halloween party. Did I mention these five [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship, Fun Pile on Oct 4th, 2007 6 Comments »
Last night about nine or ten gals came over for a Recipe Swap and Menu Planning Party that I hosted. The group was mixed, consisting of friends from all different compartments of my life, including local bloggers. I didn’t really plan to have a format, so everyone just brought their cookbooks and notebooks and index [...]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile, Picture Book on Sep 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
1. Stand on a tall ladder over a treacherous patch of blackberry bushes in order to pick plumbs off the top of the tree 2. Sit around like old ladies, chattering about weddings and babies and the first days of school, while pitting plumbs. 3. More chattering while chop chop chopping. 4. Carry the load [...]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Sep 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
I will not name any names to preserve the integrity of all participants, but several desperate housewives gathered in my basement tonight for a big screen HD viewing of Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveShow on HBO. O-my-ga. The man has some moves. One of my friends came downstairs at one point and said, “There was a huge [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Sep 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
1. Margaritas 2. Corn fritters with cilantro lime dressing 3. So much homemade Mexican food I had to be rolled down the driveway 4. Margaritas 5. Thomas throwing a fit because he didn’t get to open any presents 6. Twenty kids and two pinata’s 7. Friends I haven’t seen in months 8. My friend sending [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Ruthie, Thomas on Sep 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
1. Said loudly on the ferry – Ruthie: Thomas! Where’s your bus? Thomas (thinking she said ‘butt,’ he grabs his ass): I put my butt wight hee-ah! (And grabbing his crotch) And my pee-pee’s wight hee-ah! 2. Bryan and Ruthie leave to get a table at Red Robin while Thomas and I wait ten minutes [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Jul 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Thomas and I hung with the curb crowd, ooo-ing and aahhh-ing at all the activity, and he wasn’t even phased by the Seafair Pirates’ loud canon. He was more interested in eating candy, because apparantly throwing candy into the gutter was a prerequisite for participation. By the time he’d had three suckers and a piece [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Travel on Jul 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I just returned from five days and four nights of camping in the rain. It was a little overwhelming, but we just couldn’t stay away as it was the week of our favorite music festival on an island north of Seattle. For five days everything felt damp, even if it wasn’t actually wet – my [...]
Posted in Everyday, Fun Pile on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Family, Fun Pile on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
On the 4th we drove North to Bellingham where my dad has a condo on Lake Whatcom. The weather was beautiful, the kids were great, and the food was yummy. And there was plenty of laziness going around for everyone to enjoy. That night I drove home, and around 10pm we were on the stretch [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Fun Pile on Apr 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Mar 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
My girlfriend, Sarah, has been coming over on the Monday nights that Bryan is out of town, and we scrapbook together. When Ruthie was a baby I made scrapbook pages throughout her whole first year, and filled a second scrapbook of other family fun stuff. But by the time Thomas came along I was deep [...]
Posted in Fun Pile, Ruthie on Mar 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday was Ruthie’s 4th birthday so we threw a dinner party in her honor. We began talking about it several weeks ago when, with pen and paper in hand, I asked what she wanted for her party. It was funny how precise she was, and how reasonable. I had wondered what I would be getting [...]
Posted in Fun Pile on Jan 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
Wow. What a weekend. Talk about spontaneity! On Friday afternoon two of my friends and their kids just HAPPENED to find themselves at our house at dinnertime, so we lengthened our table to make room for four adults and four kids and had teriyaki pork loin with navy beans and a salad… YUM! We had [...]
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