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FORTnight! Our Two-Week Backyard Campout Begins

What? The summer is coming to a close? Shhh….Don’t tell the kids. For the last two weeks of the season, we’re setting up the tent in the backyard and letting the kids sleep out of doors whenever it suits their fancy! Actually, Bea put up our tent almost all by herself!  So, what did we […]

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Film Fest Night One: Dark Passage and The Man Without a Body

Summer of Funner Family Film Fest 2014: Super-Anatomy in Space and Time Night One: Double Feature! Dark Passage (1947) and The Man Without a Body (1957)  Happy Independence Day to all of our Friends and family in the USA!  This year’s Summer of Funner is all about the fabulous ABILITY of the human body and […]

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Have a Backyard Campout Weekend with In-Tent Movies S'mores Ghost Stories and a Percy Jackson (Reading) Marathon

Backyard Campout Weekend!

What began as a desire to have a backyard campout became a Backyard Campout Weekend!! In the hopes of finding a sleeping bag for Bea’s school camping trip in the early fall, the kids and I ran over to Canadian Tire on Friday morning to do a little back-to-school research. We came home with a sleeping […]

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