Category Archives: AMD Local (Seattle)

I placed another two dollars into the box in my room that held my daughter’s birthday money and thought- what's my plan for this? The amounts that come in during birthdays and holiday...

Why do you send your child off to school?  For most of us, the very first answer that comes to mind is to learn.  We equate school with academics.  And yes, learning is a huge part of t...

I can still remember it – clear as day. I was sitting in my middle school chemistry class when all of a sudden the walls and everything on the desks started shaking. The old laminate tiles ...

My husband and I just celebrated our 7 year anniversary. YES. SEVEN years. Time flies! To our parents, we’re still a young marriage, to our friends who haven’t settled down yet, we’r...

It’s been a long and absolutely beautiful summer here in Seattle, and with that heat also comes some unpleasant odors. Why do these tend to be worse in the summer?   ...

You have a crazy number of choices.  There are ten shelves of mayonnaise in the grocery store, a wall full of shampoo options at the salon, and an entire aisle of different types of toilet paper....

There's a list we all have.  You know, the list of all the things we'd love to spend money on but can't because our budget doesn't allow for it right now.  That list has things on it like th...

Campgrounds usually begin taking reservations nine months in advance, and the hot spots fill up fast.  Planning ahead is recommended, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some last-minu...

You may be asking yourself, What are the black lines on my carpet? If you have lighter colored carpeting, making sure it stays in pristine condition takes a lot of work. Any little soil or stain is of...

At Klesick Family Farm we spell busy M-O-M!  The other day my wife, Joelle, and I were just hoping to catch a glimpse of each other. We had one child heading to track, another one to basebal...