I never understood why they did it. I thought they were ridiculous. Boy was I wrong; I was so short-sighted.
My former in-laws would drive three-plus hours to visit my big boys when they were little. They would stay only...
I've bowled a few times. In the 80s and 90s, that was a cool youth group outing. My Girl Scout troop went a few times, too. It is not that I didn't like bowling; I just really wasn't any...
We all know the sound of the tune. Our heart skips a little tween beat and our brain activates "dance floor" mode immediately when we hear Aqua's "Barbie Girl" song.
"I'm a Barbie girl..." in a boy world.
I have two...
Willy Wonka is one of my favorite movies (not the new one, but the OG). I watched it as a child and used to pretend to play "finding the golden ticket." There are so many good morsels in the...
We checked out some new splash pads this year that we love!
Of course, the Kennedy Park splash pad is still really great and huge, always a crowd-pleaser. I definitely recommend it.
This year we checked out the Fairborn splash pad...
July 2 is I Forgot Day and I am pretty sure I would take home the first-place ribbon. After becoming a parent, it seemed like my brain was taking on so many more things while also being pulled in...
We have a blended family.
Just a week ago, I was talking with my husband and he said in conversation, "One of our boys did this one time."
I stopped and got pretty emotional thinking about our blended family.
I remember the...
I got settled into a routine of mommin' where I thought, "This is fine but something is missing." I used to do theater and I am a very expressive person, naturally. I had an opportunity to do an open...
I did it - being very cheap and bargain hunter-minded - and bought a Stanley.
I'm not a jump-on-the-bandwagon type of gal. I have a thermos from the same brand that got me through many cold soccer games that belonged...
Our second batch of kiddos has been a challenge since day one and has caused us to learn new and better ways to parent them with their set of challenges and ways we need to accommodate them. It could...
As an elder millennial, my audio book experience has been books on tape; cassette tapes. Big, bulky, sets of cassette tapes.
Fall of 2023, we purchased a new car, leaping forward from our previous 2011 model. One of the features...
The other day, you screamed out across the grocery store parking lot, "Oh and by the way, we're getting married and we're having a baby daughter. That's right. She's moving in this weekend. I just thought you ought to...
I recently ran into a family that I had known for decades. We had a sweet relationship back then; our families would share meals, worship at church together, and serve together. I had such fond memories of this family...
I wanted to share my favorite relevant book as we encounter another beautiful intersection of early Spring and March, which is Women's History Month. "The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes" written by Du Bose Heyward is about...
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Halloween Events {2024}
Here's your annual roundup of Halloween events happening around the Greater Dayton area this year all month long during October! Dress up, have some...
