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 [...]
“Don’t Drive Angry”
Posted by Toni | Filed under Local Adventures
(One of my boys’ favorite quotes from the movie Groundhog Day).
This year, due to rapid early morning snowfall and a certain kindergarten student’s misplaced snow boots, we skipped the prognostication ceremony on the Woodstock (Illinois) Square. Here’s an image from last year that I really love, starring Woodstock Willie and my oldest son:
Apparently, Willie did [...]
