Category: Non Profits

  • Chapter 101- Play Date With Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum

    Since we spent a month doing such exciting things as coloring on boxes, wearing finger puppets on our toes, and taking pictures of Rescue Bots, it’s been pretty quiet around here. The Storm house was hit hard with the flu among other awesomeness, and there was literally a full week where we didn’t leave the…

  • Chapter 99- Colectivo’s Gospel Brunch (Plus a totally unrelated giveaway!)

    Last month, I finally made it to the Colectivo on Farwell for their Gospel Brunch, which supports Progressive Community Health Centers.   I packed up my kids and met a friend, and the dancing immediately commenced.  It was a great way to spend our morning! My kids made a new friend, ate some delicious baked goods,…

  • Chapter 98- Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (Travel Edition)

    St. Nick brought a toy for the kids, and a Jack White LP for Theo, but I made out on top this year.  Yesterday, I drove up to Two Rivers and attended a workshop at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.  If you don’t read anything else in this post, just know that you should…

  • Chapter 96- Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

    Because life happens to be particularly crazy right now, I’m finally getting to post about a trip to Schlitz Audubon Nature Center from about a month ago.  We’ll pretend I’m posting pictures of warmer weather on purpose, to get us through the next few days, ok? I had been talking with a friend about October’s solar…

  • Chapter 93- Milwaukee Art Museum’s Playdate with Art

    Milwaukee Art Museum‘s Playdates with Art are back on the calendar, and we met up with our new friends of Ana & Zelli last month. Little T’s school schedule got in the way, so we only got to hang out for an hour at the museum.  And as it turns out, an hour is not…

  • Chapter 84- Doors Open Milwaukee (Part III)

    Welcome to your third and final installment of the Doors Open Milwaukee weekend!  After an easy and really enjoyable time volunteering, and an in-depth tour of Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge, I took Sunday to explore. Remember how in my first post, I told you that when I volunteered I got to meet great people, get a…

  • Chapter 81- Hunger Task Force Farm

    (My friend Raina Johnson wrote a piece for Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service about this adventure, as she’s a freelance writer and fellow Metroparent blogger.  It’s also been picked up by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) I was invited by Metroparent Magazine to have a tour and volunteer session at The Hunger Task Force Farm a few weeks ago.  After…

  • Chapter 77- Doors Open Milwaukee (Volunteer Orientation)

    For the past few years, I’d hear about Doors Open Milwaukee as it was happening and wish I had coordinated my life so I could attend.  The idea of the event is to open up buildings in Milwaukee to the public, free of cost, for one weekend.  Check out their website for a list of…

  • Chapter 67- Sonny Knight & The Lakers Studio Session at Radio Milwaukee

    This just happened, like an hour ago.  I won entrance to Radio Milwaukee’s Studio Session with Sonny Knight and The Lakers, but couldn’t find a sitter.  So I took the kids with me!  The lovely folks at Radio Milwaukee were totally fine with me bringing my four kids to a live recording. We stopped at…

  • Chapter 65- Milwaukee County Zoo

    Remember how when I was on The Morning Blend (round two), I was all “we do a lot of foreshadowing and it helps our adventures to be successful”?  Yeah well I didn’t do that before our trip to the zoo last week. We met a group of friends (we were four moms with ten kids…