Here's another fun and quick craft that the kids can help make or you can make for them to get ready for New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve tends to be a holiday that's more adult oriented, but this craft can help them be a litte more involved. As an extra ...
Santa took time out of his busy schedule last Sunday, to help deliver the Bunspace Christmas presents to Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary (GLRS). These presents were generously donated by the California-based organization for all of our resident rabbits waiting to find homes. The gift bags contains an assortment of treats ...
Trying to come up with unique fundraisers can be challenging. You want them to appeal to different groups, and you want them to be fun. Last March the Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary, where I volunteer, held an event called “Easter Photos." We had a professional photographer take pictures of guests ...
When a girl makes the Girl Scout Promise for the very first time, she becomes a sister to every Girl Scout. Coming into this sisterhood, she learns the value of working with others who are like her and yet not like her. This is core value of Girl Scouting -- ...
Earth Day turns forty today. A perfect excuse for you and your kids to throw Mother Earth a party. Whether you plan it for this weekend, or throw a surprise after-school bash, here are some ideas to make your theme greener.
Dear Kerry,My children are 4 and 2. There are so many holidays throughout the year. How can I make those celebrations meaningful to my kids, instead of being something they have to sit through and endure, as I remember all too many times in my childhood? Sometimes I think my ...
It's a Fairy Door Treasure Hunt in downtown Saline. Thanks to the Saline Downtown Merchants Association and 212 Arts Center in Saline, those piqued by a little adventure and a lot of whimsy will enjoy participating in this magical, month-long event. A select group of merchants in downtown Saline is ...
Sxth-month-old Cecilia Shand rings in 2010I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around 2010. It sounds like a prescription from the optometrist, or a verse from a song designed to teach kids to count by tens. Backwards. But maybe I'm saying it wrong? Is it "Twenty-Ten" or "Two Thousand Ten?" Or ...
It was a beautiful Christmas morning — the first one, in fact, that we'd spent in our own home in 12 years of marriage. It was dark outside, but our tree lights sparkled as we listened to holiday tunes, cradled our mugs of coffee and watched the kids opening their ...
Want to avoid a hangover? You might have to simply drink less alcohol to do that. But University of Michigan research also indicates the drink of choice might have a lot to do with how severely a person experiences the typical symptoms of a hangover.Researchers from both U-M Medical School ...
2-year-old Noah Shand helps his Dad with the tree'Twas the morning before Christmas and all through my house, the only sound to be heard was the click of my mouse. The children were sleeping all snug in their beds, but visions of Target kept dancing in my head. What time ...
Parenting contributor and local psychoanalyst Kerry Kelly Novick has a column today about the sometimes-contentious issue of whether parents should encourage their children to believe in Santa. She writes, in part: "There is a crucial difference, to my mind, between sharing values and beliefs of your own with your children, ...
Santa Claus stopped by AnnArbor.com Monday evening to spread some holiday cheer to the entrants in our Santa letter contest (and was it just me, or did he bear a striking resemblance to former News columnist Geoff Larcom?).
Holiday break has barely begun, and already my kids are at each other's throats — leaving me to wonder how I'm going to survive the next two weeks with my sanity intact. It's a cruel irony that the season of joy and peace should bring so much strife. Late-night parties, ...
Illustration from The Christmas Tree Book, Joe Kaufman, 1966 I thought I had at least a couple more years until this topic would be an issue. It wasn’t until a boy in my daughter’s kindergarten class told her that fairies and storybook princesses are not real, that I realized this ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
Get the Ann Arbor RSS Feed
AnnArbor.com