{Spots We Love} Kids Plus Pediatric Dentistry
If there’s one thing I hate more than almost anything else in the world, it’s going to the dentist. I don’t know what it is about that place, but it terrifies me. So as a mother, I was NOT looking...
View Article{Spots We Love} St. Charles
We recently went on a perfect family date to the super cute little town of St. Charles! St. Charles is home to just over 32,000 residents, and is situated about 40 miles west of Chicago. It took us a...
View Article{Spots We Love} Studio Movie Grill in Wheaton
We had an opportunity to check out the new Studio Movie Grill in Wheaton recently - it is SO nice! Unfortunately cameras and cell phones were not allowed in the theater during our show, so I wasn’t...
View Article{Spots We Love} Pump It Up
Sophie recently got an invitation to a birthday party at Pump It Up in the mail, and I realized I totally forgot to tell you all about her party there (which was, ahem, months ago)! We were at the...
View Article{Road Trip} Jelly Belly Visitor Center and Warehouse Tour
My mom and I took a little road trip with the kids recently and headed up to the outlet stores in Pleasant Prairie (right over the Wisconsin border). The shopping was fun, but the real highlight of...
View Article{Spots We Love} Pigtails & Crewcuts
Pigtails & Crewcuts now has a location in the Randhurst Village shopping area in Mt. Prospect. A while back a reader named Melissa suggested Pigtails & Crewcuts to me. At the time, the...
View Article{Spots We Love} 2Toots Train Whistle Grill
As you know, we love train restaurants! So when I found out about 2Toots Train Whistle Grill, with locations in Bartlett and Glen Ellyn, I knew we had to check it out! We went to the Bartlett location...
View Article{Spots We Love} Volkening Lake
There’s just something peaceful about being on a boat – looking out over the water makes it easy to forget that we live so close to such a massive city. In the midst of a busy weekend recently, my...
View Article{Spots We Love} Millennium Park
Millennium Park is one of those places that, I’ll admit, I kind of avoided for a long time because it just seemed touristy. But we wound up there a few times this summer, and actually found out it’s a...
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