Regardless of how much time I ever have in Seattle, I always love visiting Pike Place Market. It’s the kind of place where I can spend an hour or wander endlessly like I did recently when I was back in town for the Microsoft #ChampionsSummit. With half a day free and an agenda that included lunch…
Virtual Field Trip Friday: 8 Family Friendly Dishes from Turkey to Make at Home
“What did you eat while you were in Turkey,” Emily asked with wide eyes right after she gave me giant welcome home hugs. “Everything,” I replied. “Each meal seemed more delicious than the last. Is that even possible?” I wondered aloud, knowing that my meals at home would pale in comparison to those sampled during…
How to Motivate Your Kids to Keep Reading Over the Summer #SummerReading
This is a sponsored post Oh the dreaded summer slide. We hear about it and know it to be true but there’s nothing carefree in thick packets of work or the colorful cartoony workbooks designed to review concepts as the new school year draws closer. I’m a much bigger fan of integrating learning into the…
Free Microsoft YouthSpark Summer Camp for Beginning and Experienced Coders at Microsoft Stores Near You
With Memorial Day behind us and plenty of end of the year activities scheduled over the next couple weeks, it finally seems like summer is truly around the corner. Each year my strategy for summer is the same- a couple weeks of camp for both kids, a lot of pool and outdoor time, a family…
Virtual Field Trip Friday: Locating Turkey on a Map
It’s Friday and welcome to our very first virtual field trip to Turkey! Thanks for joining me for today’s journey that features a geography lesson to get you and your kids acquainted with where Turkey is in the world while providing information about the capital city of Istanbul. It’s my hope that through the interactive…
What Would You Do if You Could #GetHomeFaster? (w. TomTom giveaway)
This is a sponsored post Do you ever sit in traffic thinking about all the things you could be doing if you were at home instead of bumper to bumper with other cars on a clogged road? Having enjoyed the work at home lifestyle for many years, I’ve been spoiled by not having a daily…
How an 11 Year Old’s Ribbon Barrettes Raised $3600 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
When school ended last June, my eleven year old daughter, Emily, set out to raise more than the $142 she did the previous year through ribbon barrette sales benefitting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). In the past eleven months she’s raised $3600 in honor of her best friend, Ava, who was born with cystic fibrosis….
7 Tips to Secure Your Mobile Device
Today I’m off to Seattle with Microsoft for the #ChampionsSummit (feel free to follow the hashtag to see what I’m up to!) and want to introduce Joe Siegrist, CEO and co-founder of LastPass, who is here to share seven tips for securing your smartphone. By Joe Siegrist, CEO and co-founder of LastPass For most of us in…
12 Movies About Families to Watch on Netflix This Weekend #StreamTeam
It’s been a crazy exciting month filled with fabulous travel but like the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. I love my job and traveling but I also really love coming home to my family. This weekend I have a respite between trips and I’m looking forward to doing the things that bond…
Virtual Field Trip to Turkey
With each new experience I had in Turkey, all I could think of was my family and how much they would have enjoyed being right there with me. Since coming home I’ve been thinking of a way to teach my children about the many sights, sounds, and tastes of everything I saw, ate, and did…
