A Prehistoric Fairy Garden for the Future Paleontologist Crowd When your three-year-old goes around telling random strangers he’s “faster than a Gallimimus” (and said strangers look at him like WTF is a Gallimimus), it’s time to plant the kid a dinosaur garden. Last year, the boys helped me with our first magical fairy garden and …
Tell my kids we’re going to look a sculptures outside and Easton would probably start whining instantly. But hand them a map and tell them we’re going on a troll hunt … well, that’s a game changer. The trolls at the Morton Arboretum are a new exhibit that opened in June, a series of six …
This may be the shortest blog post you’ll ever read. Here’s my best advice for hiking with little kids: Just don’t do it. Wait, you still want to? You can’t resist the Pinterest pictures in your head of walking sticks and climbing rocks and leafy green forest everywhere? OK … but don’t say I didn’t …
The Garfield Park Conservatory holds a special place in my heart, as it was a date spot for #DoneWithFun Daddy and I back in our pre-kid, Oak Park apartment life. The lush greenness overwhelms me every time. But we discovered this winter that it’s also a fantastic place to take kids in all weather, rain …
