The most scared I’ve ever been on Halloween was about 10 minutes ago, when the house was really quiet and one of Stevie’s sound puzzles started going off for no reason. JEEZ!!! I’ve had maybe 3 good costumes in my entire life. I know. I sound am so boring. My husband hasn’t seen a scary movie since…
It’s been a helluva month, my friends. There haven’t been many Stevie updates and that’s simply because each post would be a long list of complaints from me. And as much as we all have those moments with our kids, mine are all just running together at this point. It reached a peak yesterday when Stevie’s preschool teacher…
Packing for a trip. Ya know, I don’t mind it too much. It gets me excited to leave. But I’ve never been great at it. It takes me ALL DAY. Or sometimes even thinking about it, prepping, and making lists for weeks in advance. And I still either bring too much or too little. (Usually too much.)…
I don’t kill spiders. I destroy them and make all their body parts fall off. Then I leave them as a warning to the others. During one of Stevie’s therapy sessions, I was rocking the floor play, trying to get Stevie pumped up, when my button-up shirt basically flew open. Three buttons at least. Down…
Day 5 is also known as the last day of our Pacific Northwest vacation. *Insert sobbing emoji here* We hustled that morning to pack up and get out the door. Just a few last things in Portland to see before we headed back to Seattle for our flight home. Our first stop was VooDoo Doughnuts. Now, listen…
Portland was warm. Portland was pretty. Portland was… weird. They don’t lie about that fun little fact. We had a lot of recommendations for food, which was obviously fine by me. But other than that, we weren’t really sure what to do with ourselves. So with a couple tourist pamphlets and Google Maps in hand,…
We started our foggy morning with breakfast at the hotel and then a quick drive through Queen Anne to get one last glimpse of the city. Totally unnecessary to see that view AGAIN, but it was still nice to briefly explore one more area before we headed out. At that point, we still had a couple…
The vacation Gods smiled down upon us. With a blessing, a little luck, and some blackout hotel curtains, all of us slept in until like 9:00 on our second day of vacation. A Festivus miracle! — rise and shine! — We wanted to get out of the hotel at a reasonable hour, mostly to fit as many meals as we could…
We wanted to get out of L.A. for a second. We were basically just seeking some cooler weather, to be honest with you. Yes, that could have been as simple as our annual drive up to San Francisco, but I was getting the itch and the urges. You know… to go somewhere new. See something different. Cross something…
I wanted to touch briefly on how much we loved our hotel in Seattle. Normally we stay with Marriott. It’s just a safe bet pretty much everywhere, ya know? Nothing fancy, but we trust the brand. And they are everywhere. But in Seattle – damn, they were expensive. Down by the waterfront was over $300/night the…