Kate Dyer-Seeley  

So forget my last post.  Trips to Europe be damned!  Luke’s back-to-school tale will now be “I caught a fish THIS big!”  And, he even has picture proof.  But on to other news…my blog is just one of many things that has sat neglected while enjoying this near-perfect Pacific Northwest summer.  It’s been an unusual summer in [...]

In celebration of Father’s Day Luke wanted to rise early and make Gordy breakfast in bed.  It should be noted here, that Luke would much prefer to have breakfast in bed daily.  It should also be noted that any foray into breakfast in bed begins Luke shouting up the stairs, “Dad! Dad! Don’t get out [...]

We dodged a bullet in the Seeley household last week, well at least I did, I’m not sure the boys would agree with me.  Our pet total to date stands as follows:  two dogs, one cat, two frogs, a fish, a couple of snails, and a hamster prone to escaping his cage (aptly named Houdini.)  [...]

It’s like the old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the other.”  Somehow Luke ended up decorating Easter cookies last week in his camouflage wife-beater while jamming to Johnny Cash.  As he sang with a six-year-old twang, “I fell in to a burnin’ ring of fire” I handed him pink sprinkles [...]

Technology love it or hate it, this one just might buy us another few years of believing…a direct message from Santa with an insider’s view of the North Pole.  Need I say more?  Happy Holidays 2009 style!  Portable North Pole (PNP). 

The steady sound of beating drums and soaring symphonies have been blasting at our house for the last couple weeks in preparation for dun, dun, dun-dun-dun-dun: Star Wars in Concert.  That’s right, Luke donned his Halloween costume a little early, spent hours meticulously crafting posters with cutouts of Yoda and Boba Fett, and stayed up way past [...]

My feature story on Richard Jones appears in this month’s issue of Climbing magazine.  Which is nearly to the day one year after I sent my editor at Climbing my original query letter.  This particular feature is a classic case study in the process of writing.  Writing takes times.  And, I mean all writing.  My monthly column, freelance features in magazines and writing [...]

Batter Up to Battle Alzheimer\’s Luke had a jammed-packed celebrity schedule last week.  It began with his KGW debut and ended with throwing out the first pitch at PGE Park on Friday night.  Not an average week for a five-year-old and now I’m beginning to wonder if it might be going to his head.  In fairness [...]

I can’t say that prior to having Luke I frequented parades.  That’s not to say I don’t enjoy a good parade every so often–I am a full fledged America after all.  My toes will tap to the beat of brass band booming by.  It’s simply that having a preschooler lends itself to more parade viewing.   Last year Luke [...]

Apparently the new trend in preschool pranks is to have a leapin’ Leprechaun visit the classroom.  This crafty green guy from the Emerald Isle wrecks havoc on the room while the kiddos are distracted outside or in the gym.  In Luke’s classroom this week the Leprechaun expertly evaded the traps  set out–made skillfully of shoe-boxes and baited [...]