You guys. YOU GUYS. In honor of the first day of summer, I’m doing [awkward] backflips to tell you about this simply unreal summer event. It’s called Kids Bowl Free, and I’m fairly certain you’re gonna find a participating bowling center in or near your town. (Yes, even you, darling Canadians.) Ready for this? Once you sign up- for free– your kid gets to bowl twice a day, all summer long. For free. There is, quite literally, no catch. It {Read More}
Happy First Day Of Summer (Eve). (Observed.)
June 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Summer is practically- finally- beating down our [screen] door. And what better way to celebrate than with the girls’ best friend- and favorite neighbor gal! One of us is veeery thrilled to be sitting with the Big Girls. Tell us another one, Em. I swear I did not pose this. It’s not summer until you visit the ice cream truck and the fish pond in the same trip. Sittin’ on the stoop, housing some soft serve. And I just added this pic {Read More}
Chicago Is- Briefly- All Full O’ Summer.
May 1, 2013 By 4 Comments
For the uninitiated, this is what the first 80 degree day in Chicago looks like. To be fair, this is also what the first 68 degree day in Chicago looks like. (By 55 degrees, we’ve thrown winter coats into deep storage.) So yeah, it’s just as euphoric as it looks. Take that, nine months of winter!
Free Day At The Adler Planetarium!
August 29, 2012 By 4 Comments
…Well, at least it was for us. We got the elusive CPL Adler free pass (’cause seriously, that thing is never there. The only available passes are usually the ones with free admission anyhow…or the museum of surgical science, which I’m gonna take a pass on for my Under-3 set, yeah?) Ain’t it always the way? You trek across town and allyour kids wanna do is play with the Planetarium’s
Too Busy For Hygiene.
August 27, 2012 By 3 Comments
Crawling towards soap. The dirt makes her blurry. My laziness has reached new heights. Or lows. (Let’s go with lows, since I’m currently on the floor.) This weekend was truly fun. Exhausting fun. But- let’s put it into perspective, here. I wasn’t scaling mountains with the girls strapped to my back. There were no death-defying underwater cave expeditions. (That’s next weekend.) There was
Keely Brings The Mood Down A Notch.
August 23, 2012 By 10 Comments
Summer. And maybe a touch of roughhousing. Last summer, when I was humongously pregnant with [the-yet-to-be-determined] Susannah, Nora and I had a terrific time. Really. We had picnics every place that featured tables (and some that didn’t). There were nature hikes, tamale stand stalkings, and midday naps in my bed (because we couldn’t fit into hers). I was so [beyond] thrilled to be having
Travel Tips.
August 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
Our [sandy] nomadic days have come to an end. We’ve eaten and road-tripped our way up the Eastern seaboard and here is a smattering of the things I’ve learned: -Outdoor showers (while totally amazing-feeling) never quite get one fully clean. -For that matter, no matter how many loads of laundry one does while staying at the beach, one will find a veritable desert of sand in her washing machine
