Give A Gift of Experience That Lasts All Year Long
This holiday season, rather than filling your loved ones’ closets with more stuff, consider an experience gift – one that continues to give all year long. Studies have shown that...
Giving Back: What Matters to You
Volunteering happens in so many different ways. You can raise your hand at work to lead planning an event or activity for your team or go into your child’s school...
Holiday Fun for Every Who, Ages 3 to 102!
Everyone’s favorite furry green holiday villain is back: Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas! is on stage at Children’s Theatre Company, now through January 6. Last year’s performance was...
Kick off the Holidays with Mary Poppins Jr. at Stages Theatre Company!
Mary Poppins is set to fly over the rooftops of London and onto the stage at Stages Theatre Company this holiday season! Stages Theatre Company’s holiday show has become a...
Art Time
I’m a planner by nature. Always have been, always will be. My husband and I use an app to synch our family schedule and I use another one to plan...
Ugh – It’s THAT Season Again
I hate this time of year. It’s really the worst. Everyone’s out with their Pumpkin Spice Lattes, going Apple-Picking and buying Halloween Costumes. Not me. Call me the grump, the...
How to Be an Allergy Mom for Halloween
Yay! It’s that time of year again – the time of year for candy to be everywhere. That’s the whole point of Halloween, isn’t it? Get as much candy as...
Fist Bumps from the Trenches
At this point, we all know that looking at social media when we’re not feeling 100% emotionally can be toxic. Most people I know have even suspended accounts, or gone...
Get Off the Sidelines: Participating in Sports with Kids
Some background: I didn’t grow up doing team sports. My Latina mother encouraged ballet, swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading, even track. She scoffed at the idea of women playing soccer, field hockey,...
Minnesota Moms Start Festival for Children’s Charities
Julie Wearn (above left) likes to think outside the box…and dream BIG. In early 2016, Wearn approached her colleague Liz Ostrander (above right) with an idea. Wearn wanted to create...
The Joy of a Local, Kid-Free, Weekend Vacation
For our anniversary this year, my husband and I decided to spend a kid-free weekend just fifteen minutes from our house. And we loved it. Now, don’t get me wrong....
Get in the Game with Post Cereals this Summer
by Brianna
Pre-K soccer is the best entertainment. You know how these four-year old soccer games go… you have the mass of players moving in a blob formation from one end of...