As much as I love scrubbing paint out of my living room rug, as much as I love scraping clay remnants out from between my floorboards, and as much as I love rubbing the skin off my fingers on the wrong end of a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, I love it even more when someone […]
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Mama on a Budget: Touch a Truck
Hopefully no one intends to get ill, ride the number 11 TANK bus, or burn their house down between the hours of noon and three on Saturday September 15, because all of those trucks will be busy with being touched by my son. That’s right readers, it is time for the annual Touch-a-Truck held in […]
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Mama on a Budget: Fall Youth Sports
First off, sorry for the complete “radio silence” for the last few weeks. I was on “holiday”; I was “summering”. I was traveling the globe, so to speak . (OK, I was in Lake Mary, Florida visiting my mom but hey, a world-traveler can dream, right?). I came back and read the last few posts […]
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2011 General Services Annual Report: Park Review Part II
Highland Park Tower Park always has been and continues to be a park of special significance. Not only does it have historic merit, being a frontier and Civil War fort, it continues to be an active military base and even more active playground for children through adult. I grew up playing at that park; the […]
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2011 General Services Department Annual Report
Recently, the 2011 General Services Department Annual Report was compiled to summarize the projects performed by this important but often unnoticed department of the city. While this was no Fifty Shades of Grey, it was still a very interesting read. As the report contains a wealth of information, it will be discussed in two separate […]
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Mama on a Budget: Cincinnati Museum Center Free Fridays
Oh, “Free Friday”; two of my favorite words. Free because I am cheap, and Friday because, well, Rebecca Black says it best: “tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards”. But this summer, Friday means three straight days of trying to figure out how to entertain the world’s most active toddler indoors to avoid the 110 […]
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Exclusive to FTM Readers: Discounted “Mommy and Me” class at Kaleidoscope Dance Company
Mama on a Budget Series – by Jessica Duke Supposedly for little boys, a background in dance can help footwork in football, soccer, basketball, or a myriad other “manly” sports. For my son, it seems to help his spirit more than anything! Sure, he has a mean right arm with both a baseball and football […]
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Mama on a Budget: Cat in the Hat Story Time
The last time I met a nearly seven foot tall ‘Cat was after a UK basketball game. This time around was quite a bit less exciting: at a Barnes and Noble with my two children and husband (if only he were that ‘Cat from college, “meow”). Actually, though, this much more wholesome experience was really […]
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Mama on a Budget: Easter Activities (by Jessica Duke)
So, I am that Mom from the Target Christmas commercials; you know the ones where she constantly trains for the Black Friday sales? For the past few weeks, I have been in the yard (enjoying this amazing weather) hiding Easter eggs and training Knox to find them. He has it down to a science so […]
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Mama on a Budget: Teeter Tots Follow Up (by Jessica Duke)
Too many tots, too much teetering. As I said in my first post on the Ft Thomas Recreation Department’s Teeter Tots, the whole thing was simply too disorganized, too many children for so little leadership, and too hectic to really be fun for parents too. After attending four of the five weeks (Knox was sick […]
