Wow. I’m sitting here looking out the window at the whiteness outside. It’s beautiful. And, in Seattle, apparently very dangerous. There’s barely an inch of snow on the ground – in some places they’re talking about TWO inches! I kid you not, people are calling this a “snow storm” (uh…?), they closed schools, and the […]
By the way… my baby turned ONE this past Saturday! (He was born on Friday the 13th.) It’s true – no one can prepare you for the realization that your tiny little slug of a person is a walking, babbling, crawling, moving 1 year old. And a terribly handsome one, at that. I was going […]
I’ve always been a very carefree fly by the seat of your pants kind of person. I hate schedules with a passion and suffer anxiety any time I have to make plans (and I almost always break them). I moved to Europe with $500 to my name, counting on my usual luck & good fortune […]
I still have lots to post from our Spain/Holland trip, and pictures… but in the meantime (while I finish uploading and editing photos) – FARMERS MARKETS! SEATTLE! UTOPIA! I thought, because I hadn’t frozen/canned/preserved enough vegetables this summer, that I was doomed to two season of shopping at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. And honestly? […]
Pardon me for the politics, but a friend of mine shared this on Facebook today and I think it’s worth a read. I’ve avoided reading about & talking about politics the past couple years, because I don’t enjoy being in a constant state of rage & disbelief. Even now, I avoid it because, truth be […]
So, wow. I’m not in my early 20s anymore. Nor do I have the stamina of someone who is. Of course, I’ve known this for a long time but it was especially clear when we arrived in San Sebastian. We left Philadelphia around 6pm and arrived, a little over 6 hours later, at 7am in […]
Oh, the first day of travels. Sigh. That sucked. Day one was getting all three of us to the East Coast, to my parents’ house. We got up at 4:30am – yes, AM – but should have gotten up at 4am. Or maybe 3:30. We arrived at the airport too late to check in. Well, […]
Today I’m busy doing laundry, sorting through photos, catching up from 2 weeks away, etc, so the stories of travel will have to wait. But in the meantime, Mr Nikki in Holland – I took a gazillion photos just of him and can’t you see why? It’s no wonder we have such a handsome kid.
We just got back home, tonight, after our two weeks away – One week in Spain (San Sebastian, Guernica, Bilbao, Pamplona) and Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem) book-ended by a week at my parents, who watched Nugget while we were away. I have 900+ photos to go through, clean up and post and tales to tell. My […]
My husband and I met in our respective home towns (which are only 10 minutes apart, and I spent a lot of time in the town – his town – 10 minutes away for most of my teenage years and early 20s), when we’d both, serendipitously, returned from living abroad. He in England for 2 […]
Mr Nikki’s company offers 100 hours per year of subsidized childcare – this can be either at home or in a daycare. I won’t tell you how much it costs, because you’d probably weep. It’s cheap. And oh, yes, we are using every single minute of it. We started using it because our regular sitter, […]
I’ve found my home. I love Seattle only second to my favorite European cities – Amsterdam, Prague, Lisbon. But since living in Europe isn’t feasible right now, Seattle is, by far, my #1. Originally, we’d talked about living here for a few years and I was pushing to get back to the northeast as soon […]
