Category: Adventures with kids
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Chapter 109- Organ Piper Pizza
After one failed attempt at Organ Piper Pizza (we showed up at 6:30pm and there was a 30 minute wait. You can imagine that timing doesn’t work for a family with 4 kids under age 6), we headed back and arrived right when they opened. I’d heard about this gem from my native Milwaukee friends,…
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Chapter 108- Mitchell Park Domes
A few weeks ago, my good friend Chai came up to visit us from Chicago. Chai has two amazing girls, A & V, who have most definitely inherited their mother’s creative bone. I’ll get to that at the end of this post. Anyway, we met up on Monday morning at The Domes. It was an incredibly busy…
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Chapter 107- Free Ice Cream Today!
I heard through Metroparent’s Facebook page that Dairy Queen is offering free cones today. So naturally, we got on our shoes after nap and walked to the closet location! It’s a beautiful day, and my poor kids have been cooped up forever, so we thoroughly enjoyed walking in our neighbors’ lawns and finding birds nests.…
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Chapter 105- Fox & Branch at Anodyne Coffee
Last Sunday, Little T had a special at home date with Theo, and I took the other three kids to see Fox & Branch at Anodyne Coffee in Walker’s Point. The band plays a free show at 11am about once a month, and I’d been meaning to get to one for a while. And it was…
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Chapter 103- Asian Market Phongsavan
Today I was feeling adventurous, and met my friend Kate to get pho at Milwaukee’s Asian Market Phongsavan. I say adventurous because it was sort of a hike to get there, we were in a serious time crunch with naps quickly approaching, and I had no idea if my kids would actually eat pho. I’m going…
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Chapter 102- Mitchell Park Domes & Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Last Friday, my dear friend came into town from Madison with her girls. Since The Domes were a staple when my friend lived here, we didn’t even consider where else to meet! Oh, and Little T, if you’re reading this in the future, I’m sorry you couldn’t come and see your friends. Darn school! Ok,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Chapter 94 – Dia de los Muertos Parade
A few weeks ago, on a cold Saturday, I took the kids to see the Dia de los Muertos Parade at Walker’s Square Park. I had forgotten that last year, Theo took the twins and Little T to it, while I stayed home with baby S who was just a few days old. From what…