Keeping Peace at the Dinner Table
Have you ever had a night at the dinner table where chaos reigns? Children are squabbling, parents are tense, milk is spilled, tears are shed, and sanity is called into question. Maybe your table is too small and you need to get a dining table and 6 chairs instead of the 4 chairs that you...
Menu Plan Monday {December 8}
Another Monday, another Menu Plan! I did a great job of following our menu plan last week, and we had some delicious dinners. We also had dinner out on Saturday, which was a real treat. Every December we have a special day with the kids in Downtown Cincinnati. We went to the Taft Theatre to...
Chicago :: The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows
Chicago Vacation :: For Spring Break 2014 we took the kids to Chicago for three nights and four days. We crammed as much fun as we could into those four days and had adventures all over the Windy City. I’m going to share our adventures with you in a series of installments so you can...
Harry Potter Costumes :: Halloween 2014
Ever since our Harry Potter Family Movie Night Party a few years back I’ve been wanting to make Harry Potter costumes for the kids. Well, not just the kids…for all of us! This Halloween I made it happen, and we created costumes for our family of six to represent the characters from Harry Potter! I...
Mummies of the World at the Cincinnati Museum Center
Recently I was given a sneak peek of the “Mummies of the World” exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center thanks to WCPO Insider. I took my nine year old son Max with me since he has shown such an interest in Mummies and Egypt in the past. I did not know much about this exhibit...
Frisch’s Presents The Nutcracker {GIVEAWAY}
If you live in the Northern Kentucky or Cincinnati area chances are you have some holiday memories that revolve around “The Nutcracker”. Maybe you went as a child and would like to go back, or perhaps you have never been but are enthralled by the music, or possibly you make this a holiday tradition and...
Five Easy Appetizers
I have lots of favorite easy appetizer recipes, because I love making Hors d’oeuvres for any occasion. Over the Thanksgiving weekend we had five different events going on! So I had lots of easy appetizers to make. I put together five of my favorite easy appetizers this weekend and thought I’d share the recipes with...
VTech Learning Cartridges {GIVEAWAY}
A while back I was asked to review the VTech InnoTab MAX which is a tablet for children. You can read my review in this post, but in short, we loved it. Henry still uses it constantly, and he’s learning while he plays! Now I have two great VTech learning cartridges to use with the...
“The Comedy of Errors” at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Last Friday night we had a date night and had the pleasure of attending the opening night of The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s latest production, “The Comedy of Errors”. As soon as we entered the lobby we could tell it was going to be a festive evening. The lobby was decked out in carnival decorations, the...
Seven Days of Salad {11.23.14}
I’ve been trying to make healthy changes for myself and for my family, and one thing I’ve decided to try is to have a salad each day, preferably at lunch because that’s the meal that I make the most bad decisions about. It seems that I’m usually busy mid-day and end up eating fast food...
The Children’s Theatre Presents “The Snow Queen”
One of our family’s most treasured traditions during the Christmas season is to get all dolled up and spend an afternoon downtown. The highlight of this afternoon is attending The Children’s Theatre holiday production of the year and then we follow it up with dinner at Arnold’s. This year the Children’s Theatre will be presenting...
