…try taking them to the theatre (spoken with a British accent!). The Chicago Children’s Theatre is now showing The Houdini Box, a world-premier musical adventure based on the book by the same name, by Brian Selznick, who also wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a 2008 Caldecott Award winner. The book has gained recent attention after [...]
There are quite a few reasons I am personally excited about CEO Jean-Claude Brizard being at the helm of the Chicago Public Schools. One is his team’s fresh approach to a very old problem. Two is he has spark. Three his spark infects his team, thereby passing on this frenzy of hope to all of [...]
My, what a year it has been! I started out as the mom of two more children -twins- making my blog’s name really truthful. We officially became a Houseful Of Nicholes. And what a blessing this year has been also. We’ve traveled – Alabama, Texas, Florida, Iowa, and even the Bahamas. We’ve celebrated birthdays and [...]
One of the things I absolutely love about Christmas time is that it can make you feel just like a kid all over again. The lights, the sounds and the anticipation of it all make December one very magical month. And no one captures that childlike wonder and excitement quite like the Wonderland Express at [...]
There are certain holiday traditions our family has that we make sure to do every year. We always have to make sugar cookies. We write letters to Santa and find an opportunity to sit on his lap. After last year, we always try to ride the Holiday Train. This year, we had the opportunity to [...]
Many days I am completely baffled at what I see at my day job. Children from every walk of life exposed to crime, committing crime, being victimized by crime. I see what The Chicago Public Schools is doing in the less affluent neighborhoods. So when The Chicago Moms was invited to a listening session at [...]
Last week’s passing of Maggie Daley, Chicago’s former First Lady, may not have been a surprise to many people. She had fought a ten-year battle with cancer and in the past couple of years, things seemed more grim. In fact, when former Mayor Richard M. Daley announced that he would not run for office again [...]
It seems to me that everyone knows someone with a child on the autism spectrum or another sensory issue. Too often I hear stories about how they are afraid to take their children to public places for fear of how others will judge their children’s actions. AMC Theatres is stepping up to help these families [...]
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown has always been one of my favorite toddler books to read. The words are so soothing, and I love the idea of saying goodnight to “nobody.” Since the book itself doesn’t seem to inspire me to sing, I was wondering how they would draw it out into a full-length [...]
When I got the wonderful news that I was expecting a bundle, I immediately put my zygote on the waiting list of a premier Chicago area day care. Sixteen years ago, that wait list was a year long. My then husband and our little famYily lived in Lakeview and did not have “clout” or high [...]
It’s all in the packaging. Now, don’t get all “But women love football, too” on me…I get that! Some of my best girl friends are football fans. And, I have nothing against football. Many of my fondest childhood memories involve going to Bears games with my Dad. (um…go Bears!) I’m just saying, it’s about the [...]
Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays…long before it became outré cool to go all out decorating with inflated ghosts and floating goblins. Maybe my love for this eerie holiday has something to do with being the daughter of a dentist. Halloween was the one day where we could actually go out begging [...]
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