Katrina Eileen's Snohomish County Homefinder Blog: April 2013

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Sunny in Seattle aka Mini Spring Heat Wave

I have to admit, since relocating to the Seattle area from Florida last June, my husband Jeff and I often have conversations that contain these phrases...

"It's not really that cloudy here.".... "It doesn't really rain ALL the time." ...."We actually get more inches of rain in Florida." - which is true, by the way.

My favorite might be, "It rains a lot here is the urban myth spread so people won't relocate to the area."

Hints that my typically optimistic view on life was carrying over to my view on Seattle weather include the sunburn I experienced at lunch with my Dad and his fiance' Jaye at lunch on a February trip home to Florida, something that would not have happened during my years of living in Florida, defending the Seattle weather to friends with any of the forementioned statements or sharing my new vocabulary word - sunbreaks - with my friends in Florida and realizing that this was a word that snuck itself into my vocuabulary at some point in the last year, that was foreign to them, the kids getting in the car after school to tell me that it was too warm for their jackets at 58 degrees! The most telling of all is feeling the need to go outside RIGHT NOW, even in my bathrobe to feel the warmth of the sun on my face is a new instinct that I have learned since being in the Great Northwest.

The truth is there could be a cool breeze on my face even though the sun is shining.

Well, after a reportedly mild winter and frequent sunny days last week we had a few days of gray, which makes this next three days of Sunshine seem

like bliss...and now I get it: when mother nature shares these days of sunshine with us, it makes the next set of cloudy days seem more gloomy than relaxing.

The good news is this week we are experiencing a "mini spring heatwave" - seriously that's what the meteorologist just reported for this week's weather forecast. Temperatures will reach 70 degrees on Wednesday! I hope it is not too warm for us!

Happy Monday! (click here to visit our facebook page :-)

Tracey Holmes, Buyer’s Representative with the Katrina Eileen Real Estate Team of Keller Williams CPRE, LLC is the author of this post. Tracey is passionate about leading buyers over the bridge of decision, answering any and all questions along the way, either with her knowledge or the expert advice of the right professional. Tracey can be reached at (425)971-8865.

The awesome team of Katrina Eileen Real Estate Team is led by Katrinaherself. Katrina can be reached at (425)931-3275.

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# posted by Katrina Eileen @ 10:27 AM

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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# posted by Katrina Eileen @ 11:23 PM

Monday, April 8, 2013

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# posted by Katrina Eileen @ 11:37 PM

Friday, April 5, 2013

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# posted by Katrina Eileen @ 1:24 PM

Why Do Our Children Grow Up So Fast?

I remember each stage for each of my children like it was just a month or so ago...

which would be impossible because there is an eleven year age difference between the oldest and youngest. Somehow those who have parented before us warn us of these times, when we will look back and wish we had more time with them. Their words of wisdom should have been taken more seriously. I am fortunate to meet wonderful people each day in the communities we serve and I can appreciate the different stages of life that they are embracing from parenting to grandparenting (although I likely won't experience this within the next decade or so), or maybe it is their nieces and nephews that they are watching sprout from infant to adult.

As a young mom myself, many of my friends are just beginning their families (at a more "normal" age) and I often have many melancholic feelings thinking back on those days when my energetic or sometimes anxious boys would reach for my safe hand to cross the street or my strong independent daughter trusted the words of wisdom that I shared with her.

Now my youngest son, Matthew is in middle school and still values some of what I say, and my beautiful daughter, Amanda is spreading her wings stretching for greater independence establishing her individualism and she transforms to a young woman, a transformation that I understand intellectually, but struggle with daily.

My older boys, my own son Andrell in college learning a plethora of diverse lessons, and my bonus sons Mike and Nick both of whom are navigating the work world and starting out on their own, we only hoping that every now then they glimpse into lessons we showed them from our own rearview mirrors. After all, it can be tough when the people you bring in to this world think that you don't really know what you are talking about.

I remember reading a book titled The World According to Humphrey with my class of third graders when I was an elementary school teacher. In the book the main character, Humphrey was a hamster, who observed the inside of families as he went home with each class member over the weekends. One weekend none of the students could take Humphrey home so the principal, Principal Morales, brought Humphrey home and what Humphrey learned was that Principal Morales had it all together but at home his own children did not listen to his words of wisdom. You see in each home that Humphrey visited his goal was to improve the lives of the family before Monday morning.

Sometimes, parenting (whether your own child or someone else's) can feel that way. You know you have it together professionally, you know you have chartered some of the very waters your children have yet to embark and you try to impart some of the knowledge you learned along the way to spare them dead ends or blistered feet from taking well worn, or broken hearts all the while still wanting them to be the spirited trail blazers you have reared, believed in, and loved from the moment you first knew of their existence.

Although, maybe I did not listen when those that went before me told me that this time would fly by. Hhhmmm... How is that for full circle?

Contributed by Tracey Holmes

Tracey Holmes, Buyer’s Specialist with the Katrina Eileen Real Estate Team of Keller Williams CPRE, LLC is the author of this post. Personally Tracey and her husband live in Edmonds, where they enjoy their multigenerational homelife learning lessons from Jeff's Dad and welcoming their older children "home" from college (Go 'Noles!) or a visit. Professionally, Tracey is passionate about leading buyers over the bridge of decision, answering any and all questions along the way, either with her knowledge or the expert advice of the right professional. Tracey can be reached at (425)971-8865 or Tracey@KatrinaEileen.com.