Seattle had snow at 3am! We drove slowly through terrible road conditions and made it to the airport on time (with my brother Dave’s help!). 
Then we spent 2 hours on the tarmac while the de-icing crew got their shit together and misted our plane.
Now we’re trying to get a stand by flight to get to [...]

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So tomorrow we head out to our fantastic Caribbean vacation.  I’m super excited. Honestly though, preparing for a trip like this is a lot of work.  We want to have everything you need, we don’t want to have to pay crazy cruise fees for an aspirin, or waste any time when we only have a [...]

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HEY! Just for fun we’d LOVE you to shoot on over to…
http://www.lauraandken.com
and keep tabs on our trip!
We’d also like to invite you to a private multi-course dinner at our Cabin in Wallingford. We’re trying something new, reaching out to friends and family to create some sweet memories over good food and great wine.
Join us? Please!
Ken [...]

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My mom is awesome.  She is one of the wisest and most grounded people I know.  You can’t shake her.  Whatever problem my sister and I face my mother always responds with calm problem solving.  She doesn’t fall into the chaos.  I call her on the phone,  feeling like things are falling apart, and before [...]

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Next week, Ken and I fly out to Miami to head out on the Cayamo Cruise.  A week of music and cruising through the Virgin Islands.  Below is our map of our itinerary.  I’ve started making plans for excursions, looking for a place to get a spray tan, and buying a bikini.  Sunshine here we [...]

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for trying to be grateful again.  it’s never too late.
perfect white primrose that seems to be lasting on my table for days
being flushed with warm memories of my grandfather that will stay with me always
trying to blog again, and building a new blog for my work.  thanks to ken’s design
planning for a vacation.  [...]

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Ken has been helping me build a new site to showcase my consulting work.  My first draft is up, and I’ll be making edits for the next few weeks, but for now check out www.laurawilliams.org.  I love the fancy headers that Ken built for me from his photography.  So pretty.
The other thing I learned is [...]

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Oh yeah, my baby loves me.
Ken and I have had two days of Valentine celebrations.  It started yesterday with a nice lunch at Farestart, a community group that owns a great restaurant in downtown Seattle.  Then to Banya 5, a spa/turkish bath.  We had full body salt scrubs, massages, and lounged in hot tubs all [...]

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So it isn’t a big secret to family and friends that I have dealt with some depression in my past.  It is a touchy condition that has entered my life once or twice.  As any type A, slightly woo-woo girl would do, I’ve gone to a variety of wise oracles for advice including family, friends, [...]

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I’m coming out of several months of a quiet blog with sad news.  My grandfather passed last week.  This follows losing my grandmother last year.
My grandparents lived around the corner from us as I grew up.  Most of my summer days were spent in their pool where I learned my love of water.  They were [...]

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