Disclaimer: As a member of Netflix’s #StreamTeam, I get to wax poetic about everything Netflix-related, curated, and marvelous. This month’s theme is #5MoreMinutes, and we’re all laughing about the myriad of ways our kids Just. Won’t. Go. To. Bed. (Netflix’s idea? Let them watch a “whole” show, especially if that show is one of Netflix and DreamWorks Animation’s Dinotrux 5 Minute Favorites.What a kind parent you are.) As always, all thoughts, opinions, and- sigh- nutso children are entirely my own. *** {Read More}
Suzy rocks out her 4th with The Play Café.
October 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Disclaimer: I was lucky enough to trade PR for a stellar party experience from The Play Café, but all thoughts, opinions, and nutty party masks are entirely my own. *** My buttercup with dandelion-fluff hair turned 4 years old yesterday. FOUR. While it seems like she’s actually going on 11 most days, I still can’t help but feel like she’s still the rosy newborn smiling in her sleep against my neck. (And if I were truly honest, I still can’t {Read More}
Parental failure: Apple orchard edition.
September 28, 2015 By 4 Comments
I’m starting to see a pattern. There are ideas- really, really good ideas- that get into my head. And even if they don’t jive with my current reality, once I’ve decided that THIS is the plan, then buster: We’re sticking with the plan. So when it falls apart spectacularly, I shouldn’t be surprised. But I always am. Loudly. With tears. Which brings us to Sunday! P.J. and I- we– had decided to go apple picking. In Indiana. Because we always {Read More}
Dragging or hand-holding?
September 24, 2015 By 2 Comments
If I could sum up this week in a photograph, it’d be this one: Getting pulled in many different directions (by improbably tiny people) through a messy home, wondering just when- exactly- each of them became big enough to actually go places, clad in a shark backpack. But to look at it from a slightly different angle: There’s lots of sunshine as well as a crazy amount of hand-holding. Plus a shark backpack. Happy Thursday, friends. (Don your best shark {Read More}
Skelebration At Redmoon! The Last Weekend!
October 23, 2014 By 2 Comments
Friends, over the weekend Skelebration was skelebrated by my children. (Remember way back to last week when I talked about touring the facility? Which sounds way more important that it ought?) This magical, seasonal, and otherworldly playground is a choose-your-own adventure of the spookiest kind- inside a theatre company’s lofty (and tricked out!) warehouse. And seriously. The theatrical explosion that is Redmoon has done it again. How they’ve managed to reinvent something which blew the minds straight outta the skulls {Read More}
Bingo’s Birthday (And Zu’s Glee) At Emerald City Theatre.
September 28, 2014 By 6 Comments
Even the most refined theatergoer (you know, the kind that doesn’t require diaper changes at intermission) needs to begin somewhere. Chicagoans are extraordinarily lucky to have Emerald City Theatre’s Little Theatre and their Play With Me Plays as a primer, as a safe place for the youngest member of the family to enjoy the arts, and as a wonderful way to spend an hour. Their latest offering, the adorable Bingo’s Birthday (created and directed by Artistic Director Ernie Nolan), is a {Read More}
