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How to have a lovely birthday.

What a great birthday! Thank you! Breakfast in bed, the 1st grade book club and then friends over for a party. Debbie and Peyman, Monica and David, Margit and Ben, Andrea and Dana, joined David, Naomi, Simone and me for … Continue reading

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Round and round

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Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava

The morning started in the backyard with Margit creating crowns from the giant leaves. Ben and Naomi were doing an improvisation about a family of animals. We seem to descend on Ben and Margit fairly frequently on Sunday mornings. Naomi … Continue reading

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Instead of Driver’s Education, Children attend Biker’s Education

Just read on Truth-out that in both Utrecht and Copenhagen Driver’s Education has been replaced with Biker’s Education. In the 3rd and 9th grade, kids learn cyclist traffic laws, bike etiquette, agility on two wheels and safe ways to commute. … Continue reading

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Claudette & Susan do Seattle

Claudette and Susan arrived in Seattle with a purpose.They wanted to visit the Sea Otters. Simone and Claudette watching the Skates and Sturgeons in the underwater dome. One of the fun things you can do at EMP is create a … Continue reading

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Boogie All Day Long

We’re in Santa Cruz visiting our good friends Kristin, Eric and Zoe. A mouthful of sand too! This was the second time on this vacation that Naomi found herself chopping on grit. About a week before, when leaping off the … Continue reading

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A Garage Sale detour enroute to the Reptile Zoo

Naomi was up quite late and so this morning Simone, Naomi and I (family meeting) decided to take a road trip. Naomi could get some zz’s, Simone could put some time into her workbooks and we could all check out … Continue reading

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Occidental Market

On Saturdays there is a market in Occidental Square so we biked over with our paints and a few toys and set up camp. I had a delicious bowl of posole from Gran Central. The girls are painting letters. In … Continue reading

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Zombie Parade or The sum was far greater than its parts

Fremont put an urgent call out for Zombies to gather for the annual “Red, White and Dead” parade. Fremont gathered 3,894 last year but lost the Guinness world record to England by a wee 132 undead brain eating participants. By … Continue reading

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How we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?

One beautiful Seattle day, I looked up and was hypnotized by the pointy triangle on top of the Smith Tower.  I contacted the Samis Foundation (owners) about taking a look at the upper floors of their massive inventory of downtown … Continue reading

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Mazama Migration 2010

Every Spring for a decade, we’ve been migrating north to sunny Mazama around the time of David’s birthday on May 25th. Our tribal gathering place is now Michal Friedrich’s Wesola Polana. You can see the rusty steel “Herd” lined up … Continue reading

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PHOTO FRIDAY

Simone and Naomi climb onto David’s bike at “Wesola Polana” in Mazama. This is one of our favorite vacation spots! The kids love staying in Tom Kundig’s Rolling Huts. Here are more pictures.

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Dinner with the Strains across the Square

Our neighbors, the Strains, live across Pioneer Square from us. We can wave or flashlight morse code from our windows. Annie Strain has a great blog about life in Pioneer Square. Jackson Strain is the same age as Naomi. They … Continue reading

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Holiday 2009 or slinky on the hotel stairs

Our holiday tradition is a feast with friends around the table that goes on late into the night. The dinner is usually a couple weeks into December. The food has been the same for the last 8 or so years. … Continue reading

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Pausing at Rhoad’s End

    Our summer sail included a brief reprieve at Rhoad’s End on Orcas Island.  We were hoping to visit with Linden, Rhoads, and Celeste. No one was home, but we found evidence that someone had been around recently. On … Continue reading

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Gritty Oasis in Seattle or Beaching in Seattle

We indulge in long days at the beach in the summer. Somehow we always stumble into friends and gatherings, on this day it was both…the recess monkeys arrived as well as friends from “Tribe Seattle.” Lake Washington beaches have darker … Continue reading

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Ferry on over to Vashon Island

We often visit the Vashon Island farmer’s market on the weekend. The food is scrumptious, the music terrific but the real reason we go is to visit our friends Kelly and Rob.

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Sailing

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David and Naomi after work

It is 5:45pm on a gorgeous day. Simone, Naomi and I are in the Chinese Room. Simone is finishing her afternoon nap in the double wide stroller. We have circumnavigated Seattle’s business district with stops at the library, Sculpture park … Continue reading

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The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together

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