Posted in Friendship, Travel on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I was hoping to have my house put together more than it is, but when you have a friend visiting you FROM AUSTRALIA you’d best concern yourself with ending Pukefest 2007 first. The important thing is that I vacuumed the layers of cracker crumbs out from the between the couch cushions so I don’t [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on Nov 26th, 2007 4 Comments »
I am back from the land of Maxwell House coffee. My sister actually told the couple who served us the rehearsal dinner, “Could you please make the coffee a little more like coffee house coffee, and a little less like church coffee?” I appreciated her effort, because strong Maxwell House coffee is much [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I am in Kansas today, and boy is the terrain flat here. I can see for miles.
My nephew is getting married here on Saturday, so we skipped Thanksgiving. I spent the day on an airplane while Bryan and the kids ate pizza and beer with our friend, Jack. I can’t say that I’m [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on Jun 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
Posted in Things, Travel on Jun 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sweltering … [choke]… dripping… [gasp]… so hot… [gasp]… can’t breath… [hack]… air is too thick…
Posted in Family, Travel on Jun 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I survived a three hour flight to Minnesota with the kids Friday night despite the fact that our Northwest Airlines flight was delayed TWO HOURS. Never did I think a flight would be delayed TWO HOURS – twenty minutes, maybe, but TWO HOURS did not cross my mind – so the kids and I [...]
Posted in Everyday, Travel on May 16th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited about coming to Northern Voice this weekend – but only because it’s been a busy month of traveling, and I was feeling overwhelmed. On the way to a party on Thursday night for friends who were in town I said to Bryan, ‘Would you [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Because you can never pack, unpack, and repack a suitcase (or three) too many times in a two month period, we are on the road again. On the heals of our trip to Portland last weekend in which our children also went in separate directions to be cared for, I had three days to [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Travel on Feb 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Saturday night we saw Babel in a cute art house theater in North Portland (review to follow), and we stopped in to this wine bar for something to tide us over until dinner. We ordered a yummy French wine and a cheese plate, and listened to the colorful employees bickering in the kitchen. [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Picture Book, Travel on Feb 17th, 2007 2 Comments »
After spending the morning at Powell’s we spent the afternoon reading in a coffee shop. I’m not a big fan of sweet drinks, alcoholic or otherwise, and was not in the mood for your standard drip coffee. So I tried a macchiato, which is a shot (or two) of espresso with foam. [...]
Posted in Books, Picture Book, Travel on Feb 17th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in Picture Book, Travel on Feb 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Learning, Ruthie, Thomas, Travel, Video on Feb 5th, 2007 9 Comments »
Our trip to the San Jose area couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve spent the last couple months reorganizing and reprioritizing my focus as a mother and household manager, trying to correct the part of my brain that sometimes finds it easier to focus on the latter and see the former as [...]
