Fort Fun Families

Do you hear that a lot?
My daughter is now counting down the days until her birthday. I figured out the days until then a couple of days ago, but didn’t keep track.
When she asked me again today, I didn’t really want to figure it out again, so I went online looking for a calculator.
Isn’t the [...]

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Make a week’s worth of school lunches

Here’s an idea from parenthacks.com, by Asha Dornfest on getting organized.
Cynthia’s batch lunch prep makes so much sense, it’s a wonder we aren’t all doing this.
We have to bring lunch to daycare 3 days a week. I used to struggle with getting lunches ready in the morning, [...]

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I just finished dressing two of my children for spending time in the snow.
Spending time in the snow is the key phrase here.
If I dressed them up “warmly”, they’d have been back in a split second, peeling off clothes that got covered in snow which will then start melting all over my carpet as they [...]

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FAST FACTS
* Centennial Livestock Auction is located at 113 N.W. Frontage Road, Fort Collins.
* Contact info: (970) 482-6207 or cla.auction@prodigy.net
* Website: www.claauction.com
So it’s officially winter here in Fort Collins and since my boys are a bit wimpy when it comes to snow and cold (and I’ll admit to getting tired of the [...]

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FAST FACTS
* Gohan Time is located at 706 S College Ave in Fort Collins.
* Phone: 970- 221-0049 (they deliver)

A few weeks ago I made a claim about Noodles & Company being a great spot for kids and having wonderful noodles and a reader said I should try the Udon at Gohan Time Japanese restaurant, right [...]

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My family went to pick out our pumpkins yesterday. We found this patch last year and vowed to return this year.
As we entered the patch, we met their pigs, llamas, sheep and would have met their turkeys, but my youngest wanted to avoid them (?).
We went out to the field, looking for THE perfect [...]

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My family recently had the wonderful opportunity to learn from some Master Naturalists about the ecology of the Fort Collins prairie.
Along with some others from our homeschool association, we met the Master Naturalists at the Cathy Fromme Prairie on a beautiful October day.

We split into two small groups, each being shown some different things about [...]

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My sister’s husband’s family has a long-standing tradition of staying at the YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park Center every fall.
It is a tradition which my sister has kept up with her husband – usually they use the time to reconnect with each other as they are both busy doctors, but this year they decided [...]

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Did any of you check out the Just Between Friends (JBF) consignment sale that was mentioned in this post? After reading through their website, I found that as a first time visitor, I could shop ‘early’ on Friday evening by registering online in advance (the sale is open to the public Saturday Oct. 13 - [...]

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On Saturday, September 15th, and Sunday, the 16th, we traveled to two local farms which both participate in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model of farming.
This means that the farms, rather than selling to distributors or at farmers’ markets, sell directly to member consumers. Typically, the produce is delivered to several local locations, once [...]

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