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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Free Movies!
School’s out — and it’s hot! Is there anything better than cuddling up with your kids in the air conditioned theater, enjoying a free movie? Regal Theaters offer free movies on Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout the summer! Check out their site, or look on our calendar here (on your right) for more information.
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Things for Toddlers To Do in Portland
New To The Neighborhood has left sunny California and come to … well, sunny Portland Oregon. They’re traipsing around our lovely town discovering fun things to do with their kids. I’ve gotta recommend their site to you.
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Getting your kids to sleep…
We family-bedded our firstborn, and even when she was eight it was a drama every night about her sleeping in her own bed (she hogs the covers!). With our second child we were more determined to put her in her crib. Her crib was in our bedroom in a corner, and we’d put her in [...]
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Stromboli
With the summer looming in front of us, you may be looking for ideas on what to make for picnics. In Italy, there is a delicious rolled sandwich creation named “stromboli,” a name that summons up “strolling along the pier” for me. We make it here about once a week, and it’s very easy to [...]
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Summer’s Wobbly Start
Feeling adventurous?
Try this science experiment. For the first week (eight days) it might be kind of boring looking, but on the ninth, you’ll have an egg that’s only contained by the shell membrane. It’s translucent, wobbly, and you can see the yolk sloshing around. Probably not a good thing to throw at people, because the [...]
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Relax
They may be our kids forever, but they won’t be kids forever. Enjoy what you’ve got when you’ve got it.
It took us three and a half hours to get our nine year old to bed; there was a lot of shouting “go to bed,” there was a lot of crying and whining, there was the [...]
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Make Tracks
It’s finally time to sign your kid up for the Summer reading program at your nearest library. Kids who read do better in school. While you’re there, sign yourself up and show your solidarity- be a terrific role model and enjoy a relaxing pastime. And for your program, audio books count!
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Marching in the dark …. the Starlight Parade
The day following Friday Night’s Fireworks (at 9:45PM), the parade is coming to down. It’s the second largest illuminated parade in the NorthWest. If you’ve seen the Disneyland night time parade, you’ve got an idea of how magical a lit parade can be for kids; not only is it a parade, which I think [...]
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