This last Saturday, we made plans to meet up with Nana and Papa at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.  Now, if you read this blog regularly, you know that we are already zoo members at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.  And you will also recall that Point Defiance has the only shark aquarium […]

As some of you may know, Auntie got a new job just after Easter that she will have until the end of September.  Auntie was invited to try out for, and made, the Seattle Mariners Ball Girl squad!  So she is now a ball girl!  On the field, catching foul grounders and handing them out […]

A year ago, we were down in southwest Washington, relaxing in Long Beach with Nana and Papa. We were building sand castles on the beach. And we fit a family wedding in there as well. This weekend we are sticking around home, being much more low-key, and hoping for an improvement on the recent weather […]

Yesterday was a rainy day in the middle of – what looks like – a long stretch of sunny and slowly-warming days.  This drove the kids – and then, me – over the edge. It started in the morning, when Ane insisted on wearing her hoodie to school, even though I had sent Tad to […]