Mama In Columbus

At this point in the summer, you and the kiddos may be burned out of the usual swings and slides of your home base park.  Plus, if you are like us, we’ve been using some school playgrounds as parks and can’t visit during the day with the kids back in session.  What to do?  Explore [...]

Something about minor league baseball just screams summer.   Maybe it is the hot dogs and Cracker Jacks or maybe it is just the crack of the bat that seems to signal a warm, summer evening.  There are just a handful of home games left this regular season for the Columbus Clippers, and you if [...]

School is back in session in some central Ohio districts and the others will be heading back to the classrooms next week.  What that means, is that the Zoo will be a lot less crowded on weekdays and that our, long, hot summer is coming to an end.  This post will start a series of [...]

Sharing an entrance with our very own Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is Zoombezi Bay, a water park with more than an afternoon of fun for little ones (and big ones, too).  While we usually head straight to the Zoo and skip the water park and other rides, today we decided to get a little wet [...]

This summer our home-away-from-home has been Whetstone Park.  We’ve played, picnicked, strolled, fed the ducks and stopped to smell the roses.  This is such a great park for little ones.  It is large with two playground options – one up by the Clintonville branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library and one down the windy road [...]

Along with unbearably humid days, early August means a couple of things:  we’ll start seeing back to school items in stores, the Fair will start winding down and tents covering a park in Dublin mean the Dublin Irish Festival is here again.  This year the DIF is in its 23rd year and is bigger than [...]

This great post from Rachel at Hounds in the Kitchen reminded me how important it is to get kids involved with daily food prep at an early age.  At our house, I often give Milo a red potato to “prepare” as I cook dinner.  He expertly moves it from pot to pot, stirring and tonging [...]