If your toddler dreamed up the perfect lunch, this would be it. Grilled cheese…on a bus. The Grilled Cheese Grill in Northeast Portland has seating on their patio or in their delightfully renovated school bus where you can munch your five dollar “Southsider”(Artichokes, Sundried Tomato, Mushrooms and Mozzarella on Sourdough) while your toddler chows down […]
We are totally settling into the school routine. The boys are only half-day and I love how we still get to make and eat lunch together. I know I’m really going to miss this time when they start going to school ALL day long, even though sometimes I want to tear my hair out […]
Sometime in the last little while, the hubby went out of town for work and I was lucky enough that my mom came down to babysit ME. With grandma in tow, we decided to go on a little adventure with the guys and Portland became the destination. Thank goodness for GPS. (When I was in college, […]
This list of kid-friendly places to eat in Seattle is always growing and you can stay current with where we’ve been eating lately on my Emerald City Life instagram feed. I also have a list of other things you can do in Seattle with kids too. I will admit to eating out quite frequently every […]
I keep getting asked for where we like to go in Vancouver Canada, and I have old lists for Vancouver with kids and Vancouver with my dog, but I realized recently that I didn’t have a centralized list, so this is where I’m going to put the places we like to go and things we […]
We were supposed to go to Palm Springs in April but the kids weren’t vaccinated yet and we also realized we weren’t ready for an airplane trip with kids and a dog in tow. Instead we decided that there is still so much close to Seattle that we want to see and if there is […]
Have you ever been to In-n-Out Burger? My vegetarian boyfriend (now husband) was the first to introduce me to In-N-Out Burger back in Los Angeles, California when one of us wasn’t even in our twenties yet. It’s one of my favorite restaurants he told me, as I looked at the menu in total disbelief and […]
*PS I originally wrote this article last year when Enchant first arrived on the Seattle scene. Enchant Christmas is back in Seattle for the 2019 winter Season with the theme of “Enchant Mischievous” at T-mobile Park! We were invited the other night for a media preview and I love the updates to Enchant Seattle for 2019-the ice skating […]
Work with me here-do you know the street in Seattle with the big, beautiful Brooks Running store on the corner and Evo sports and the delicious Whale Wins restaurant with the gorgeous mural on the side of the building? This street is named “Stone Way” if you look for it in Google Maps but I call it “Bread Street” and there […]
We just spent a lovely week on Vancouver Island and I never realized how EASY it is to travel there from Seattle. Since we’ve been doing a lot of road trips by electric car lately, it was a perfect road-trip with the kids from Seattle and we covered a lot of ground and never hit […]
I had a few ideas of what I wanted to see in and around Dallas, Texas with our kids when we arrived there for a short trip a few weeks ago. We would go to the Art Museum (it’s FREE!), the Dallas Zoo, the Perot Museum, the Arboretum and we would spend a day at […]
There aren’t a ton of options for food in the Snoqualmie Pass area and because we’ve been there so often lately, we’ve managed to try a bunch of them and find some favorites. I love Webbs (they have a thoughtful kid’s menu) and Red mountain coffee is quite cute and has pretty inexpensive ice cream […]
Whenever we head to Vancouver, we have some regular stops but we’re always trying to expand our food repertoire. We spent a good week up in Vancouver for Christmas Break and while we had a lot of family events to eat at, we had some fun eating around Vancouver too. The first place is a […]
We’ve been in a family restaurant rut lately. Though we love our usual haunts, the Spaghetti Factory, Red Robin and Boom Noodle have been so over-used in our rotation lately that I can’t imagine going back to them anytime soon. (And we love them). Thank goodness we spent some time this past week venturing out […]
The hubby’s been wondering why I’ve been dropping a few more colorful vocabulary terms in our recent conversations, but it’s really not my fault. It’s totally because of some lovely ladies in my life who told me about Thug Kitchen and why I have to make some potato salad and bean burritos. (Actually, why I […]
I wish I was telling you about car rentals because you need them to see all the fabulous toursity sites in Atlanta. Yes, you’ll want a car for some of those too. But we only rented one for a little while during our trip to Atlanta last week and I wanted to make sure we […]
I love summer for its lovely weather, and sometimes the heat is a great excuse not to cook so we can find new restaurants and tasty things to eat. I’m so glad Skillet opened at the Seattle Armory(Seattle Center) We already know we adore it, but I know we’ll love it more now it’s in […]
It’s a good day when the hubby calls in a sandwich order and we find a perfect spot right out front of Paseo, a little Caribbean sandwich shop in Fremont, famous for roast pork sandwiches. If something ever happened to me, I know he could live off the Tofu Delight sandwich and survive happily for […]
“If food is yummy, tip your head back and close your eyes and say mmmmmm like this!” says the Bean. Oh and pancakes are a finger food. Always. We love going for brunch and we love trying new places. We tried Skillet Diner when it was a food truck and the new restaurant is lovely […]
Trip planning without kids can be a challenge when you’re going somewhere new and I vehemently believe there is never a ‘best time” to travel with kids so we try to embrace ALL The times as much as we can. Here are some of the places we’ve traveled with the duo and the sites and […]