I’ve been looking for a summer volunteer activity that I can do with a 4 and a 6-year-old and through the Cincinnati United Way website, I found the Giving Fields. The Giving Fields are the Freestore/Foodbank local food supplier (think farm to table). They supply the local food banks with fresh fruits and vegetables and operate […]
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On a weekend, Dennis and I decided to take our boys to the Behringer-Crawford museum in Covington, KY. The museum discusses the Greater Cincinnati history and has four floors with different areas of focus (rail, industry, rivers, immigrants and tourism). One of the things that attracted me to the museum was the fact that they
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Next on our park tour was Winton Woods park. We chose this park because it has a nice big lake that we could use our canoe in AND launch my paddleboard for the first time! The lake in this park is miles better than the lake in Sharon Woods (much larger and also cleaner). The
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As part of my “see all the large Cincinnati parks” tour, we decided to visit Glenwood Gardens & Discovery Center. The gardens, while more than 30 minutes from us, were well worth the drive. It is probably the most beautiful and picturesque park we have visited so far. The boys and I went on a hike where
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Ever since I went on sabbatical, I’ve been able to do things that I’ve wanted to do for a long time but could never find the time or energy to do. One of those is volunteer more consistently for the Cincinnati SPCA. The last two times I volunteered at the mobile adoption unit, I had
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This week we went on two Field Trips: one to the Rumpke Landfill in Colerain Township and another to Rowe Woods Nature Center. We had a very positive experience in both and the boys learned two completely different things. Rumpke’s Landfill Tour The tour was incredibly easy to schedule (I just emailed Sara Cullin
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Our camping adventure started off on the wrong foot. When we woke up Thursday, the boys saw that their Dad had collected most of the camping gear and it was in our entryway, ready to be loaded into the car. With the benefit of hindsight, I now realize that they were excited and stimulated by
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Right before I left for sabbatical, I received a great book about what to do around Cincinnati. I was beyond excited to get it and got right to planning and entire summer worth of field trips! Last week we had our first field trip and it was to the American Sign Museum (4 out
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I am a fan of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education and really like her views on the importance of nature studies. She argues for every day interaction with nature, to understand and familiarize children with their surroundings. I really like the idea of my children being as comfortable outdoors as they are inside – and
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