The summer has swished away into cool crisp days and I'm ready for our fall line-up including pumpkin patch adventures, birthday celebrations, a new season with Seattle Rep, and a trip to Hawaii!
Here's a quick glimpse of how we rounded out our summer:
- Trips to the zoo
- Free author events at Book Larder
- Ice cream at Frankie & Jo's (our new favorite since Mr. Fleece can eat everything on the menu)
- Rollerblading at Green Lake
- Weekly library pit stops
- Visits to Lincoln Park in West Seattle
- The Seattle Children's Museum on repeat
WATCHING | We recently purchased a second-hand outdoor baby swing and NLW is loving it! His face lights up, he smiles, he giggles. It's the cutest.
I'm currently binge-watching season 3 of
This is Us...cue the emotions. I'd also recommend this
feel-good remake.
EATING | Lazy Susan, Citizen's sister restaurant, just opened up two blocks from us, so we took a family date night there...and ran into two different sets of neighbors. We also tried this little gem of
Thai street food.
In my own kitchen, I made BBQ sauce for BBQ chicken and modified Rosie Daykin's
Zucchini and Couscous Salad from
Let me Feed You. I added marinated artichokes, sauteed the zucchini, replaced pine nuts with almonds, and used Trader Joe's Israeli Couscous.
READING | I finally finished re-reading Jane Eyre. This novel was required reading for me in high school and I recall enjoying it, but reading it for fun as an adult is another endeavor altogether. The language is rich, witty, descriptive, and beautiful. Every other page I was making a note of a phrase, exclamation, or description. Other favorites from the summer were
Brainiac:Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings and
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. My bookmark is currently in
Great Expectations by Dickens.
LISTENING | Melted Ice Cream by Lucia and the Lumineers new album
III :)
Stashing sundresses,
SJW
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