Why yes, we do live in Seattle (part 2).

You know you live in Seattle when your child tells you on a beautiful 80-ish degree day, "Mama, I'm soooooo hooooooooooot. I think when we get home I could go for a cup of cold water with ice in it."

Why yes, we do live in Seattle.

If you're on facebook, or live in the Pacific Northwest, you've likely received an invitation to join the "You know you're from Seattle if..." group or seen it in an e-mail. It has such pithy quotes as, "You know you're from Seattle if you know what the word 'sunbreak' is and look forward to its occurrence." Last night, we had a chance to add one of our own to that list...

You know you're from Seattle if your children play "Barista" with Daddy's Starbucks card when he gets home from work and hand you a drink saying, "Here's your hot mocha with whip cream."

Why yes, we do in fact live in Seattle.

Updates to follow...

After some serious neglect here, I'm back in the blogging world. We've been busy this June, with a few adventures including a train ride on the Snoqualmie Valley Rail Road, a stay in Spokane for the boys, and a train ride for Luke and me to Minot, ND with a short stopover in Glacier National Park, MT. At the moment, uploading the pictures doesn't seem to be working. I'll be back soon with pictures for all of you, or you can check my facebook page.

Too Gross to Post

When I think about my pre-kid years, I know there are things that I now regularly deal with that would have made me retch. Now, though, not so much. So with that in mind, I'll spare you the gory details of what we've been doing lately, and just let you know that it would likely make you wish I hadn't posted anything.

I hope sincerely that you're having a less gross day than we are.

Not Long for this World

I told Luke if he'd deal with the rooster, I'd learn how to make fried chicken. I guess that's going to be on the menu sometime this week!

People and things that make me happy...

Chicken Fricassee

It appears that we have a rooster in our hen house... if this proves to be the case I think we'll be enjoying the freshest chicken we've ever tasted in this house.