Do you celebrate Shark Week? Personally, I don’t get it, but maybe that’s because I was 5 when Jaws hit the big screens and convinced me that killer sharks were out to get me. Everywhere. Celebrate Shark Week at the St. Louis Zoo The St. Louis Zoo celebrating Shark Week July 9-15 (2017) by inviting kids to dress up as …
Summer Fun
(Update: The next air show is May 30-31 2020 and will feature the Blue Angels. Stay tuned for fresh details as we get closer to 2020.) We’re super excited about the return of the Scott Air Force Base Air Show! It’s been 5 years since they last opened their gates to the public and you …
I’ve been looking into fun ways for the kids to spend summer and found a real gem! My local SkyZone is hosting a Summer Camp! Score!
Do you know what your kids are doing this summer? If you’re like me, you just sorted out how the kids are spending spring break. Summer seems so far away! But summer isn’t THAT far away! Did you know that families start planning summer camps NOW and that some of the best camps fill up …
Did you know the blues are the bedrock of all really good American music? Yep. I never occurred to me that someone whaling on a harmonica a hundred years ago could led to ZZ Top and Adele on my iPod, but it did. Wanna guess where I pick up THAT bit of trivia? Psst. Lemme tell you something before you …
Last night I bribed my teen to play with his little brother. “I’ll give you 2 bucks,” I texted to him. “And a cookie.” My kids are 8 and half years apart, a vast difference that’s both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, its way easier to raise a second child when the …
Fireflies are the friendliest bugs of summer and we love them! We love watching them twinkle in the trees out back and we love to chase them through the yard. We also love to see how many fireflies we can catch in a jar–but our part of suburbia seems to be short on lightening bugs …
When I was a kid, I was always jealous of those TV commercials showing kids frolicking on Slip N Slides on their lush green suburban yards. I grew up in the country, with a yard full of trees, rocks, stumps, rocks, dirt, rocks and more rocks. It was not conducive to DIY backyard water parks. Which …