Venue: Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Website: http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/ Location: 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, Illinois 60077. Hours: Mon–Wed, Fri: 10am-5pm; Thu: 10am – 8pm; Weekends: 11am – 4pm Admission: Adult Admission*: $12.00 Seniors (65+): $8.00 Students (12-22): $8.00 Children (5-11): $6.00 Parking: Free – plentiful Our Experience: I visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum with myread more
Venue: Kohl Children’s Museum Website: http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/ Location: 2100 Patriot Boulevard, Glenview, IL. Approx. 45 minutes from Chicago. Hours: Mon–Sat 9:30am – 5:00pm; Sun 12:00pm – 5:00pm Admission: $9.50 per person, kids under the age of 1 are free Parking: Free – plentiful Our Experience: Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago offers 17 interactive, hands-on exhibitsread more
Lately I’ve noticed that my energy levels have been down – like, way down. At the beginning of the year I was so gung ho about working out and eating better, but after about three months it just started to taper off. My system needed a reboot…fast. When I started to really think about whatread more
Rarely do I get time to myself. A husband, a teen, and a toddler are always vying for my attention so at the end of a day I’d rather crawl into bed to get some sleep before it starts all over again, instead of doing anything nice for myself. But – as I vowed toread more
Venue: Cheeseburger in Paradise Website: http://www.cheeseburgerinparadise.com/ Location: 1608 South Randall Road, Algonquin, IL. Located in the Algonquin Commons Shopping Center, north of I-90. Hours: Mon-Thu: 11:00am-12:00am; Fri-Sat: 11:00am-1:00am; Sun 11:00am-11:00pm (Friday Night Karaoke! 8:30pm-12:30am) Parking: Plentiful, but there are a lot of other restaurants/bars in the Algonquin Commons shopping center, so you may have toread more
Eating healthy has never, ever come easy for me. It’s something I really have to think about and work hard at because I’m the kind of girl that eats everything, and I’ve always thought that if something is healthy, it probably doesn’t taste very good. Take, for instance, some of my favorite foods: cupcakes, macread more
Mornings are not my friend. Ever. My entire life, I have never been a morning person – just ask my mom who had the unpleasant task of trying to wake me up every morning for school. For her, it definitely was not the highlight of her day. I was rude, cranky, still tired…and mostly, justread more
For the past few weeks, I’ve been toying around with my new Samsung Galaxy S III from Verizon Wireless. There are so many great features on this phone that it would be impossible for me to list them all in a single post. All of the other cell phones I’ve used in the past areread more
Do you ever have a hard time getting your kid to eat? I mean, not just foods you know they dislike, but foods that they normally eat, just seem to “not feel like it” on certain days. My son is a picky eater. Some foods, I know, will never pass his lips in the nearread more
Just wanted to quickly share that I am now an official Nûby Mommy Blogger! Woot woot! I get to try some of their products and share my thoughts on them with you. Who is Nûby, you ask? Many of you with kids may already know that the Nûby™ brand manufactures feeding, weaning, soothing, play, bathread more
