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The second stop on our family’s city art tour has been on our list for a while. Finally, a few weeks ago, we made it to the Free Family Sunday program at the Baltimore Museum of Art. My oldest, Olive, has been to the BMA before on a class trip and both girls are familiar [...]

Hide the remote and step away from the iPad—it’s National Screen Free Week. This national event kicked off on April 29 and stretches on until May 5th, challenging families to turn off their electronics for seven whole days and turn on some creativity. The thought is that without the distraction of television, video games, mindless [...]

Lately, it’s all about Oz in our household, as my older girls finally had their first screening of the classic The Wizard of Oz. They were mesmerized, to say the least, by everything about the film, including the black and white to color transformation, the Munchkins, Dorothy, and, most of all, the singing.
So, it was [...]

It’s a commonly accepted fact of childhood that nothing is cooler than someone else’s stuff, whether that’s a lunchtime snack or a toy box treasure. And this most certainly applies to art supplies—it’s cool to make art at home, but even cooler when you’re using someone else’s gear. This is why my girls are regulars [...]

The third baby is the hand-me-down kid, which I know well as the youngest of three sisters and the mom of three daughters. When the littlest in our line-up arrived in September, we had all of the baby goods we needed from strollers to swings, and bins of clothes for every size and season. But [...]