Family Activities

Fourth of July is an exciting time filled with fun games and fireworks. It’s the time of year when you gather together with family and friends to cookout and spend some quality time together. However, while the adults are talking and…

Lately we have been getting a deluge of snow, ice and, in my area, fog and thunderstorms. The crazy weather is causing crazy amounts of snow days. Bored kids hover on the Scale-of-Dread somewhere around going to the dentist and balancing…

Winter is coming. With winter comes varying degrees of hibernation and with hibernation comes too much kid energy, which can lead to kid boredom and parent frustration. Something else that comes with holing up for the winter…

With Halloween just around the corner Daniel and I are looking for fun things to do with Ava.  Last week we took Ava pumpkin picking and apple picking to get her into the Halloween spirit.  We headed to Quinn farm which is an idea place…

My husband and I are big travellers and have always taken our daughter, Ava everywhere since she was born. During the summer months, we enjoy a two week family vacation, but this year was not easy on us financially. So, we've put off of…

Earlier in the week, my husband and I took our 2-year-old daughter, Ava to the farm for the first time. We took her to Quinn Farm in Ile Perrot, QC (Canada) which is about a 30 minute car ride from our house. Ava like most children loves…

I will just start off my saying…yes, I married a nerd….a nerd who LOVES Star Wars. It is bad enough that he wears the Star Wars shirts everywhere but now he has our son wearing them too. But that’s who I fell in love with. I even agreed…

Daddy plays on a co-ed softball league on Sundays so Baby C and I go and cheer him on. A majority of the players have babies between 5 months to 2 years old so it is fun for the kids to play together. I usually hang out with the kids or…

Who does not love Chuck E. Cheese?  My daughter Ava loves it there and we try to go as often as we can.  Good News!  Chuck E. Cheese is having a great Fall promotion called "Chucktober 2012" and it is all about costumes, candy and…

Ava got to spend Thursday and Friday with Grandma (me) and Grandpa and we wanted to do something that was fun, healthy and outdoors. We finally decided that a day apple picking would be just the thing, a traditional Fall activity. Apples…