family frolics

Montana (family reunion) menu.

07/13/2012 | 6 Comments | Topics: family frolics, food., frolics., menus

Every year I create a new menu… [more] to feed 25 familial mouths at a family reunion off in Montana’s wilderness. Stores are hours away, so we cart in all of our food for a week and we each cook one evening dinner to feed the masses. Many of my siblings have it down to a science, cooking the same thing year after year and creating a bit of a tradition

family frolics: cycling from Port Angeles to Sequim (and back)

06/15/2012 | 3 Comments | Topics: family frolics, frolics.

Not often enough, we escape as a family for a little cycling weekend. You may or may not know that our family [of four] cycled from Amsterdam to Paris the summer of 2009… [more]. We like the time of discovery and exercise, exploring little towns and soaking up scenery at a bike’s pace. Besides, then we can nosh without guilt. Bike trips fill us with memories and stories, popped tires

Wilderness Menu.

07/01/2011 | 11 Comments | Topics: family frolics, food., frolics., menus

Every year we have a reunion in some tucked-away corner in Montana. It is definitively my children’s favorite year – the one thing they hated to miss when we went abroad for a year. Because. Because it is magical.

Adults sit around and catch up about everything and nothing. Kids make up games, kayak on the lake, ride go-carts and hang with aunts and uncles, grandpa and grandma. We all… [more]

Orcas Island farmer’s market and solstice parade.

06/19/2011 | 8 Comments | Topics: family frolics, frolics.

How lucky to be on Orcas Island the weekend of the Solstice Parade.
I have been coming to Orcas Island since I was a baby. I took my sons here when they were babies; this large island—part of the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State—is like a second home. The same-old route, the visits that blur into each other, the familiar faces at the bookstore and bakery… [more]

shrimping?

05/13/2008 | 4 Comments | Topics: family frolics, food., frolics.

I told you it was auction season, remember the year supply of dry sodas? Well, we get a kick out of picking one interesting item per auction, perhaps one with a story or experience. At a recent auction, I renewed our family pass to the Seattle Art Museum… [more]—which was brilliant timing as they just renovated a huge portion of the museum. It is gorgeous.
At last year’s school