The Halterman Weekend

It's been featured on The Travel Channel and on Ellen. It's just overnight-trip distance away from us (four hours). ...

It's tradition to go to a "pumpkin patch" at least once a year for us.  While this might only hold while the kids are rela...

It's back!  There's an updated LanternAsia exhibit at Norfolk Botanical Gardens !  A few years ago, Kim, G, and Nana were abl...

J and I (K) are both educators, and we hear a lot about STEM  education and its cousins, STEAM and STEM-H.  It's true that scienti...

It had been a long weekend, and not in the best sense, after fierce windstorms took out power to the house.  It was time for a little out...

A fun art exhibit in your hometown is cause for excitement.  Play: Toys Reimagined as Art at the Taubman Museum of Art  is a great excuse t...

On a fall flight, Kim (K) flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early morning.  Upon landing, she admired the lights glowing at Caro...

Our area of Virginia includes many fun "pumpkin patch" ongoing fall festivals for kids.  Two of the best are Jeter Farm , winning ...

This year on the annual beach trip, E had reached the requisite height to slide on the Holden Beach waterslides, officially known as the ...

If you grew up in the 1980s or had kids growing up then in the US, you undoubtedly know the Cabbage Patch brand.  Kim had a few dolls: ...