Kids Activities

"I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about. Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?" Charlie Brown asked this of his friend Linus in the 1965 CBS Christmas special, Charlie Brown Christmas. At our...

February is the shortest and sweetest month of the year! There are lots of opportunities to spend special time with your loved ones in these four weeks. Check out this list of local events and set a date with...

With breezier temperatures and college football back on the screen, I can’t get to a great patio fast enough! In my 20s, I lived in Chicago, and September Saturdays were spent bar hopping from patio to patio as we...

I’ve said it before, but one of my main goals of motherhood is to create a childhood that feels magical and special and to curate an environment that yields openness and creativity. Holidays have a good bit of all...

Alabama summers generally have two settings: brutally hot and humid, or thunderstorms. When water play isn't an option and you need a change of scenery that's indoors and air-conditioned, here are some ideas to try to beat the summer...

As an intern at Opelika High School, I taught a unit on bird identification. My mentor teacher in biology had twenty slides of birds common to our area and required his students to learn to identify them by sight....

It's 2 days before Valentine's Day and you still have to make Valentines for every kid in each of your children's classes, and if you're like me you want to spare the other parents from the wrath that is...

Summer is here, and there's something about the warm (ahem...hot!) weather that automatically makes me ask, "When's our next vacation?" I know road-tripping with kids can sound daunting - you may have heard the saying, “with kids, there are...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! We’ve gathered a list of coming events in the Auburn/Opelika area starting after Thanksgiving through the end of the year. From parades, Christmas markets, outdoor activities, festivals, and train rides, to...

Big Box stores started to sell Christmas items in early October this year; this seems earlier every year. We are constantly bombarded with buy me messages. Ads are everywhere—YouTube, Facebook, television, radio, mail, magazines, newspapers, websites, billboards. Even our...