On Sunday Ella and I went to see a holiday classic, the Nutcracker presented by Frisch’s and performed by the Cincinnati Ballet at the Aronoff Center. The Nutcracker is a Cincinnati Holiday tradition! We don’t make it to the show every single year, but when we do have the opportunity to go it’s a magical...
Hello Monday! And Hello Holidays! It’s going to be a wild and crazy week with the Christmas holiday, so I should have some great recipes for you next Monday. As for today, I’ve got some great stuff to share as well. If you are looking for even more inspiration see my Recipe Archives or OrgJunkie’s...
Here we are…Monday AGAIN. Does anyone else out there wish we lived in a world where Mondays were part of the weekend? I’m not ready to face this week, because I’m such a slacker and haven’t bought but a few holiday gifts. I have my work cut out for me! The struggle will be to...
I find it impossible to attend a party without bringing a dish to share. I know that I appreciate it as a hostess when guests offer to bring something, so I try to do the same for others. That being said, I don’t always have a whole lot of time in which to prepare food...
This week Henry and I went to the Krohn Conservatory Holiday Show, “Magic & Mistletoe” and it was beautiful! We are big fans of train shows, but this holiday show with trains is one of a kind! The trains wind their way through a magical fairy tale version of the Cincinnati area made entirely of...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
