I don’t want to break the seal on “Back to School” topics and not because I’m an eternal summer kind of person, but because that means it’ll be Christmas at…
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Playtime: The benefits of joining your school PTA
I recently went to my first school board meeting. As someone who has carefully avoided manning the games at our school’s Harvest (read: Halloween) festival since 2011, that is certainly…
Playtime: Celebrate Harry Potter with upcoming library events
Last summer, we piled into the van and headed to the Granite Falls Library for Hogwarts Summer School. We ate snacks, watched a magician, and the kids made Harry Potter-themed…
Playtime: Options for kids who want to give tennis a try
After my middle schooler suffered a concussion in his main sport this winter, we found out just how important exercise and, additionally, a team sport/group activity was for him. He…
Playtime: Fun ways to keep your kids reading this summer
This week, I am writing my column about summer reading inside the library. I’d like to say that it is because I am going to cover all of the local…
Playtime: Many options for summer basketball camps
All it took was hearing that a friend’s third-grade daughter has been playing basketball in their driveway to get me woozy at the thought of her signing up for a…
Playtime: Summer meals, Meet Me in the Park, Back to School Fair
The Edmonds School District 2019-2020 Family and Community Calendar was released Friday. This is the one with all the shapes denoting which days are holidays, half-days, teacher conferences, or the…
Playtime: Coming this summer – music school, STEM camp, Jump Start
As a sure sign of summer on deck, we’ve reached the point of the school year where we’re counting the total number of days left — I count 21 1/2…
Playtime: Let’s talk summer soccer camps and leagues
Let’s talk about soccer! Soccer seems to be the gateway sport for a large number of kids. It was the first shot we took at a sport with both of…
Playtime: Celebrate Star Wars, comic books, archaeology and more this weekend
There is so much stuff to do this weekend, it’s hard to know where to start. It’s less of a ‘What is there to do?’ weekend and more of a…
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Playtime: Children’s film fest, celebrating frogs, tour with school superintendent
According to my weather app, the next 10 days will have varying degrees of sun in them and as of today, I don’t see any rain in the forecast. This…
Playtime: End-of-spring-break ideas and more
Spring break and when family come into town are two times we become tourists in the place we live. Being as we had family in town during the beginning of…
Playtime: Self-defense for girls, swim lessons, whale class
In the times of online reviews, word-of-mouth available social media posts and the “hive mind,” it is easier to make an at least somewhat informed decision when it comes to…
Playtime: From art to theater to science, more summer camp ideas
In making plans for the summer, I sometimes slip back into thinking that my pre-child pipe dream of lazy summer days filled with sleeping in, low-maintenance backyard play, and just…
Playtime: Options for kid-friendly music school, arts camp this summer
At my oldest son’s Quad Concert for band, the high school director announced that the Edmonds School District’s Summer Music School was now open for registration. Admittedly, I had already…
Playtime: Options for spring and summer break camps, plus preschool
Late winter is the home of kindergarten kick offs, preschool/spring break camp/summer camp registrations, choices for both middle and high school paths, and elective choices for next year. This time…
Playtime: Think spring — it’s time to register for youth baseball, softball leagues
In the spring, which at this point in this snow “event” seems impossibly far away, Lynndale Park is full of kids playing softball and baseball. Or they are in line,…
Playtime: Staying on top of school alerts, plus fun events this weekend (weather permitting)
Ahead of the half day on Friday, Feb. 8 — prompted by the impending storm — I got a call at my house, call on my cell, text, email, and…
Playtime: Feb. 2 Kidstock! plus Afterschool Magic Camp at Edmonds Center for Arts
The Edmonds Center for the Arts makes me think of a lot of different things: Indigo Girls concerts, Edmonds Comedy Night, their bar’s generous pour — which I have enjoyed…
Playtime: Day camps, classes for non-school days, plus ‘kids night’ fun
“The world’s greatest babysitter burns out after two and a half years,” Nora Ephron explains in her book I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a…
Playtime: Options for kids who want to play lacrosse
“Mom, I wanna play lacrosse” is a sentence I ignored after my youngest came home telling me how much fun he was having during his lacrosse unit in P.E.. Pre-kid…
Playtime: Family-friendly ways to ring in 2019
According to social media, the people at my house are not the only ones who aren’t sure what day it is and haven’t eaten at a regular interval since we…
Playtime: From art classes to slime making, consider an ‘experience’ gift for your child
In an effort to reduce the amount of toys stacked in buckets, and because this was something I really wanted, we got the whole family tickets to see Weezer last…
Playtime: New system makes it easy to report school threats – even anonymously
In the first two weeks of November, three different schools in the Edmonds School District had cases of possible threats. A student at Brier Terrace Middle School “received a text…
Playtime: Pre-Halloween events start this weekend
Weekday Halloween is exhausting. If the rushing from work or cramming in dinner and homework doesn’t get you, the next day exhaustion/sugar crash might. I’ve always been a fan of…