seattle – Naptime Chai http://thebenroecks.com Motherhood and adventure in the PNW! Sun, 07 Mar 2021 04:43:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 Where To Play In The Snow Near Seattle /post/2021/02/11/where-to-play-in-the-snow-near-seattle/ /post/2021/02/11/where-to-play-in-the-snow-near-seattle/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:49:33 +0000 /?p=8534 Before I moved to Seattle, I didn’t realize that it never snows here. I mean, I shouldn’t say never, because the forecast is predicting snow maybe even today (fingers crossed!), but generally, snow doesn’t stick on the ground here and even one … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2021/02/11/where-to-play-in-the-snow-near-seattle/feed/ 0 Adventuring with Kids: Holiday To-Do List /post/2019/12/09/holiday-events-near-seattle/ /post/2019/12/09/holiday-events-near-seattle/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:24:03 +0000 /?p=8363 If there’s one thing I love to do, it’s write a good list! With Christmas only 16 days away (yikes!) there is a limited amount of time to do everything I want to do, but I am committed to the … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2019/12/09/holiday-events-near-seattle/feed/ 0 Seattle Snowmageddon /post/2019/02/14/seattle-snowmageddon/ /post/2019/02/14/seattle-snowmageddon/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:56:26 +0000 /?p=8144 The snow in Seattle came, and it was fun. For a while. And now it’s finally over. PHEW. I was going to write a post about how the crazy amount of snow Seattle has suffered through taught me a bunch of … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2019/02/14/seattle-snowmageddon/feed/ 1 Buying a house in Seattle /post/2018/07/23/buying-a-house-in-seattle/ /post/2018/07/23/buying-a-house-in-seattle/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:27:32 +0000 /?p=7971 I mentioned a few weeks ago that we bought a house here in Seattle – which is the biggest commitment I’ve made since getting married. Or maybe since having kids… but we may be in this house longer than our … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2018/07/23/buying-a-house-in-seattle/feed/ 14 A quick word about summer in the PNW /post/2018/07/20/summer-in-the-pnw/ /post/2018/07/20/summer-in-the-pnw/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:54:03 +0000 /?p=7967 The longer we live in the PNW, the more I realize how different it is here than Chicago. Take the summer season, for example. In Chicago, the weather is hot and muggy and everyone’s AC is going on full blast. … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2018/07/20/summer-in-the-pnw/feed/ 8 Visiting the tulip fields in Washington (with toddlers!) /post/2018/04/14/skagit-valley-tulip-festival/ /post/2018/04/14/skagit-valley-tulip-festival/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:34:04 +0000 /?p=7882 The girls and I went on our annual trip to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival today – and at least one of us had a blast! (It was me, I may have been the only one to have fun. Typical.) … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2018/04/14/skagit-valley-tulip-festival/feed/ 6 Visiting the tulip fields in Washington /post/2017/05/09/visiting-the-tulip-fields/ /post/2017/05/09/visiting-the-tulip-fields/#comments Tue, 09 May 2017 11:23:00 +0000 /?p=7366 Once tulip season begins, I just know it’s only a matter of time before we get to summer in the PNW! It’s seemed like a never-ending winter here (if you haven’t heard, it’s been a year with record setting grey days … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2017/05/09/visiting-the-tulip-fields/feed/ 12 One Year in the PNW /post/2017/02/05/one-year-in-the-pnw/ /post/2017/02/05/one-year-in-the-pnw/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:46:26 +0000 /?p=7212 (I meant to write this post in October for our actual ‘one year anniversary’ of living in the PNW, but alas, somehow time flew by and it’s already February! How does this ‘where did the time go’ thing keep happening?!) … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2017/02/05/one-year-in-the-pnw/feed/ 8 Adventuring with kids: Whale watching in Seattle /post/2017/01/09/whale-watching-in-seattle/ /post/2017/01/09/whale-watching-in-seattle/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:18:24 +0000 /?p=7140 Tim has always wanted to go whale watching, so being the awesome wife (I say) I am I decided to buy him tickets for his birthday. I consider gifts like this the very best kind, because I get to do … Continue reading →

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]]> /post/2017/01/09/whale-watching-in-seattle/feed/ 3 Day Trip to Whidbey Island /post/2016/11/21/whidbey-island-with-kids/ /post/2016/11/21/whidbey-island-with-kids/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:48:44 +0000 /?p=7040 This past week marks four years since Tim and I tied the knot. I vacillate between disbelief that our wedding was an entire four years ago, and feeling like so much has happened in our marriage thus far that I … Continue reading →

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