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Is your child looking for new reading material? My daughter loves the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. She started reading them when she was in the second grade. The latest book was released today. Disclosure: Ann Arbor with Kids is compensated for sales through Amazon Links Double Down – Book 11 Double Down, the 11th […]
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Are you looking for a spooky place to dine for Halloween. Bone Heads BBQ is a great choice! Not only is the restaurant supposedly haunted, but they go all out with Halloween decor. Plus, their barbecue is pretty good. Bone Heads Halloween Decor Bone Heads is well decorated from the moment you walk in the door. There
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Over the years one of our family’s Halloween traditions has been attending Greenfield Village Hallowe’en.
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Are you looking for a fun, healthy Halloween treat? Look no further than these Orange O’Lanterns. When my daughter was in preschool Halloween party I signed up to bring a snack, but was not sure what I was going to bring. Most people were bring sweets, so I was asked to to bring fruit. I found a recipe for “Snack O’Lantern” oranges on
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Blaze Pizza has closed both of their Ann Arbor locations. Blaze Pizza opened their second Ann Arbor location in October 2016. Blaze Pizza is a fast-casual pizza restaurant where every guest customizes their own pizza. The pizzas cook in just 3 minutes in their wood fired ovens. Prior to opening they invited my daughter and I for a sneak peek of
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Fire Prevention Week is next week – October 9-15. With Fire Prevention Week, a number of local fire stations will have open houses. This year’s theme is “Don’t Wait Check the Date.” Everyone knows to replace batteries in their smoke detectors, but did you know that the smoke detectors themselves need to be replaced? Smoke Detectors I
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I was planning to be finished with our Monday Summer Reading Recommendations since summer is over. Then, this evening I discovered that Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday is this week. You can’t go wrong with a Roald Dahl book. Disclosure: Ann Arbor with Kids is compensated for sales through Amazon links below. Thank you for supporting the
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Every Tuesday Ann Arbor with Kids is profiling a new playground. With kids heading back to school next week, I’m changing up the typical Tuesday Playground Profile. Particularly for kids starting a new school, one of the best ways to ease the transition is for them to become familiar with their new environment. So, this week’s Playground
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Thursday night we decided to have one last meal before the students start returning to campus next week. We decided to return to HopCat Ann Arbor (311 Maynard St). We first reviewed HopCat in April 2015. This was only the third visit for my daughter and I, but my husband has been several additional times for lunch with co-workers.
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the US National Park System. I thought I’d combine a Travel Thursday & a Throwback Thursday with pictures from some of our trips to National Parks. Shenandoah National Park We visited Shenandoah National Park this spring. I’ve already covered it in our Travel Thursday Virginia Road Trip post from June..
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