Free Bowling For Kids {More Locations}

Tweet I recently told you about a program where kids can bowl for free. Remember? Well, what I noticed was that there wasn’t a great selection of local bowling centers. In fact, the closest was about 40 minutes away. Not too bad for a single outing this summer, but we certainly wouldn’t be able to [...]

Kids Bowl Free This Summer!

Tweet Are you looking for fun, creative and inexpensive things to do this summer? Me, too. So, I was excited to hear about Kids Bowl Free. Kids Bowl Free is an amazing program that was designed by bowling centers to give back to the community and provide a safe, secure, and fun way for kids [...]

Water Balloon Fun

Tweet Last weekend my lovely neighbor, Donna, spent hours filling buckets of colorful water balloons. Her time was spent simply so we could watch our kids, and hers, pelt and soak each other in a matter of minutes! So.Much.Fun. Thank you, Donna!!

Land’s End Swimwear

Tweet If you read my maternity fashion post from the other day, you will not be surprised to hear that I have never owned a maternity swimsuit. Now, before you assume that I don a tank and a pair of shorts to the pool, let me tell you that I don’t have a problem bearing [...]

Huck Finn?

Tweet Or, perhaps, his twin?

Borders’ Summer Reading Tip #2

Tweet This week’s tip on encouraging your young’ens to read is brought to you by HarperCollins:: Encourage your children to read books about people who are different from them. In fact, Katherine Paterson, recently named National Ambassador for Children’s Literature by the Library Of Congress and author of many award-winning books for children, including Bridge [...]

Borders’ Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge

Tweet Even though most of my older kiddos love to read, now that summer is here and all of the neighbor kids are knocking on our door, I’m having a tough time getting them to sit still with a book. Even my younger tykes would rather be running around outside or playing on their new [...]

Six Flags Fun

Tweet When I was a kid, Six Flags’ Discovery Kingdom, in Vallejo, was called Marine World, Africa, USA. I remember going several times, mostly to visit the marine life and explore the park. Although much of the animal life is still there to see, I have yet to spend a day riding the many exciting [...]

Water Play

Tweet We love to play in the water on these hot summer days! Two of my kiddos are missing from these series of pics… They were with us at the park, but didn’t feel especially open to having their picture taken. I’ll get ‘em next time! Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants at 5 Minutes for [...]

The Sounds of Summer

Tweet This post was written by Ray, our resident grilling expert. Imagine two gleeful and pyromaniac eight-year old boys watching your every move as you rotate the T-bone steaks sizzling on the wood fire. Earlier, they wanted free reign of the matches to light the brickets (which of course you said no way) and now [...]

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