July 14, 2025 Here are my 5 favorite things for summer I’m going to tell you about my five favorite things for summer. But first, a caveat. This is not a blog that often encourages…
August 12, 2024 Our epic summer adventure at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Summer and amusement parks go together like peanut butter and jelly. We’re blessed with two epic amusement parks in Ohio, so we don’t have…
June 3, 2024 I’m a saltwater girl in a freshwater world I like swimming in lakes, but I haven’t always. I used to think lakes were creepy, leech-filled and dirty compared to the big, beautiful…
August 9, 2023 Learn to play an instrument at Lewis Center Musicologie We’ve embarked on several fun new adventures already this summer. We took a family trip to Kauai. Z has been petsitting a ton in…
July 12, 2023 The summer of Z’s first real petsitting jobs The middle school years are challenging for so many reasons. Not only are kids prickly and hormone-fueled, but school is getting more academically challenging…
June 19, 2023 Summer is a great time to catch up on reading Recently, I rediscovered my all-time favorite place to read a great book. We have swinging chairs in our screened-in porch and this week we…
July 3, 2022 5 things to love about summer camps Z is having one of her most relaxed and easy-going summers on record. It makes me so happy to see her enjoying herself! Summers…
June 9, 2021 How to go kayaking on Alum Creek lake for fun and relaxation The kiddo and I discovered recently that we love kayaking. We’ve kayaked before, but it was on the ocean with humpback whales all around…
February 6, 2021 We’ll be sure to visit Zoombezi Bay this summer Winter might be an odd time to blog about an outdoor water park in Ohio, but the cold weather months are exactly when I…
July 5, 2020 Safe summer fun at Star Lanes In this post-Covid world, we have to think about safety in the same breath as summer fun. It’s just part of our new reality…
