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Learning about sailboats!

What are you doing Wednesday?

I am going to a tea party at the Madison Children's Museum!

It's almost Twilight Wednesday! That means free MCM admission from 5-8 p.m. This month, join us for Twilight Tea in the Log Cabin. Dress in your finest from our dress-up trunk and sip on homemade sun-tea from 4-6 p.m. Tea partygoers will make their own herbal tea sachet to bring home. We can’t wait to see you there!

Can’t make it this month? Join us on Wednesday, September 11 for next month’s Twilight Wednesday!

 Hope to see you there!

Get up and dance!

As it happens : "Tom! We are on the Television show!!" hehe... this morning we participated in Wisconsin Public Broadcasting's "Get Up and Go!" event to encourage physical activity. They rebroadcasted the event after our nap time....and the children started doing the same dance they did this morning! Plus they walked three miles today! Boy will they have some good stories tonight!

Framed: An ongoing collaberative art project

We got our frames!!!! This is our third year of community collaborated art with the wonderful folks of Geswerk Madison . Their mission : "GESWERK facilitates an annual (and ongoing) community building project called Windows of Worlds, and we help to promote and collaborate with other creative endeavors that do the same. In essence, the intent of GESWERK is to create connections. And it is our sincerest hope that these connections will lead to the deeper roots of the Community we all share."
 
On Sept. 29, our five window frames will hang with 300 more frames at Edgewood College ....on trees....where children and adults will see that many different views of the world. We are thrilled to a part of this ongoing art program!

Father's Day means pancakes and hi-fives for me.

Yesterday I drove down to Chicago to spend time with my nearly three-year-old grandson, Ellis and give my daughter and son some needed time to work on their new yard. We visited my old haunts in Chicago, our apartments in Boystown and Lincoln Park and of course numerous parks and the Lincoln Park zoo. Needless to say, the kid was worn out.

Wrigley Field!

The second window from the top was our second Chicago apartment and first daycare spot!

He must get the silliness from his dad's side ;)

Lincoln Park ham

Tongue-out time

A boy and a bear

We returned to my daughter's Irving Park home to find mountains of pulled weeds, a lawn mowed, and two people with very sore muscles. After a good nights sleep, we headed out to a father's day breakfast and fun at the park before I headed back to Madison to work on my own yard!

Syrup-laden smiles!

Swings!

Hangin' tough

Father's day flowers

Hope your weekend was as great as mine! Happy Father's Day, everyone!

My STAR of Madison is the Madison Children's Museum!

Vote for the Madison Children's Museum in the 2013 Star of Madison Awards. It's one of our favorite places to visit downtown!

The museum is nominated for Madison.com's 2013 Star of Madison Awards. Show your support and vote for us starting today through June 23. Click here to cast your ballot now!

It is berry picking time in Wisconsin! Check out these fun U-pick spots nearby

You don't have to drive all the way to Michigan to pick your own berries! Thanks to the folks at hulafrog.com, you can jump in the car, visit a farm and be back in time for dinner.



Appleberry Farm, Cross Plains | 608-798-2780

Blue Skies Berry Farm, Brooklyn | 608-455-2803

*Bures Berry Patch, Barneveld | 608-924-1404

*Carandale Farm, Oregon | 608-835-5871

Harried U Pick Umm, Edgerton | 608-774-2936

JenEhr Family Farm, Sun Prairie | 608-825-9531

*Lutz Family Farm, Marshall | 608-655-3664

U Pick Strawberry Farm, DeForest | 608-417-9485

Don't forget to put on a little sunscreen and have fun!

*Recommended by Hula-friends


Source: hulafrog.com