Author Profile: Marianne Thomas
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Marianne is an East Coast girl who fell in love with an Ohio boy and his hometown. After years of Navy life and corporate hops, they now reside in Lebanon with their three children, daughter 8, and sons 6 and almost 4. When she’s not zooming around town in her trusty van Claudine, Marianne blogs about deals and life and freelances whenever editors are kind enough to pitch work her way.Publications »
Half Price Books: Grow Your Home Library on the Cheap!Posted in Family Friendly Events & Activities, Slideshow on 30 January 2010
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We love books at our house, maybe a little too much. We have shelves and bins and piles of books everywhere.
One of our favorite places to buy books is Half Price Books. I’ve taught my kids to skim through the clearance section first - they often find books for $0.25 or $0.50.
We also clean out our [...]
Sledding Hill at VOA Park in West ChesterPosted in Family Friendly Places on 7 January 2010
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Now that the big storm is over and the cleanup has begun, it’s time to head out for some winter fun!
Voice of America Park (located on Cox Rd just north of Tylersville Rd) in West Chester has a whopping 65 foot man-made sledding hill; it was recently improved so that the initial part of the [...]
Posted in Family Friendly Places, Slideshow on 26 December 2009
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Image courtesy of TheChristmasRanch.com
The Christmas Ranch in Morrow is one of our favorite places to visit during the Christmas season. Not only are the displays beautiful, a portion of the proceeds goes to help two local charities, Shriners Hospitals for Children and The Neediest Kids of All.
We headed out to visit The Christmas Ranch on Wednesday [...]
Posted in Downtown, Family Friendly Events & Activities on 21 December 2009
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My husband and I had hoped to head down 71 to Fountain Square on Saturday to introduce our three kids to ice skating, Cincy-style. We never made it downtown on Saturday; our oldest is getting over the croup and we didn’t want her getting any sicker.
I was a little bummed; not having grown up in [...]
Posted in Family Friendly Events & Activities on 23 November 2009
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One of our favorite family traditions – a newer one for us as we’ve only lived in Lebanon for a few years – is to spend the Friday evening after Thanksgiving in downtown Lebanon enjoying the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting from 6:30 pm -8:oo pm.
Unlike the much larger and far more popular Historic Christmas [...]
Posted in Family Friendly Places on 17 November 2009
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My daughter and I had the pleasure this weekend (thanks to the generosity of my dad for surprising us with the tickets) of enjoying an afternoon together on the LM&M Tea Party Mystery Train.
Even though we’ve lived in Lebanon for almost three years, my husband and I have yet to take all three kids on an LM&M railroad [...]
