Spring Broke
Posted by Toni | Filed under Adventures at Home, Day Trips, Get Outdoors, Local Adventures, Parenting
If finances are keeping you close to home for spring break this year, read on.
While many families are heading someplace warm or with water slides for spring break, due to current budget constraints, we’ll be spending our week off closer to home. Even if I’m a bank-account-mostly-empty parent right now, I’m also a coffee-cup-half-full kind [...]
“Work Hard and Be Kind”
Posted by Toni | Filed under Parenting
By now everyone has heard or read about the controversy over The Tonight Show on NBC: seven months into a failed experiment with an hour-long, prime time Jay Leno Show, the network decided to return Leno to his hosting duties at The Tonight Show. The only problem with this plan was that the network had [...]
Tags: animals, controversy, February 2, Groundhog Day, media, News, Parenting, prognostication, television, TV, wildlife, Woodstock Illinois
Earth Hour: Did You Join the Conversation?
Posted by Toni | Filed under News, Parenting
Once upon a time, I was a young and idealistic member of a Sierra Club chapter that met for dinner on occasion in northwest suburban Chicago. One night we dined at a terrific Mongolian place where they’d grill your chosen entree on massive, round metal drums; very cool to watch and the food was terrific.
At [...]
Tags: candlelight, Conservation, conversation, Earth Hour, future, kids, Parenting, WWF
