Archive for the ‘Life in Minnesota’ Category

13 preparing for a day trip with littles – my segment on Kare11 Today

Updated 10:00pm 5/16 – Here is the video of the segment today if you weren’t able to tune in! Hi there. New here? It’s nice to meet you! I’m Allison and I write about parenting and life in the Twin Cities with my husband and our two (very) little boys on O My Family. We touch [...]

21 stop the presses

O friends and readers (who are friends I just haven’t met yet). I’ve missed you. Last week was profoundly busy: house projects, house guests, household appliances dying on me, OBrother’s first birthday, a big birthday party, an almost 3 year old struggling with it being someone else’s birthday… You better believe I have pictures. But [...]

6 sunny with a high of 75

Anyone else enjoying the symbolism of the silence around here for the last 3 days, which came swiftly on the tails of a post about our ridiculous house projects? Yea, that. But I can’t really blame it all on the porch demolition, though. The weather has been so very, very perfect. We have honestly been outside [...]

26 put a squirrel on it.

Remember when a robin made its way into our living room via our chimney? Well, about 2 weeks ago I heard sounds in our chimney again, and told DanO that I thought maybe there was another bird. Thankfully, it wasn’t like the first time where the chirping and the proximity of the scratching noises made [...]