(Originally published October 2017)
This week I wanted to take the kids somewhere to celebrate fall, but it’s been so rainy and windy lately that we’ve found it hard to do anything outdoors. It was definitely time for a visit to 101 Market in Otsego!
101 Market, started as a small greenhouse over 20 years ago and has expanded over the years to become a full-fledged home and garden center. In the fall, it’s a great local destination for family fun! In the greenhouses you’ll find row after row of pumpkins—all sizes and colors!—plus Indian corn, gorgeous mums, and lots of other fall decor.
The Kids Fall Movie Series is coming to the St. Michael Cinema!
From September 30 through November 21, our favorite local theater will be featuring great family films—a new one each week—and tickets will be available for just $1. Films and showtimes are listed below.
In addition, the theater is partnering with local schools to sell series passes, which provide admission to each film in the series and return a portion of the sales back to the school of your choice! Two types of series passes are being offered this fall:
- Series Pass $5 – Provides admission to each of the 8 movies
- Series Pass Plus $12 – Provides admission to each of the 8 movies, PLUS a 12oz fountain drink each week
Series passes can be purchased at FYCC, Kremer’s Toy & Hobby, and Sadie’s Cafe. Stop by during their businesses hours to purchase your passes, and let them know which school you’d like to receive a benefit!
Did your family visit the Minnesota State Fair this year? What did you do there… and more importantly, what did you EAT? Or maybe you didn’t make it to the fair. Maybe you don’t even like the State Fair (gasp!) with all of its crowds and animal smells and heat.
Regardless of how you feel about the fair, you still probably have a handful of fair foods that you crave. My personal top three are pronto pups, cheese curds, and funnel cake, and on the years we skip the fair, I really miss them. Did you know, though, that you can find a lot of popular fair foods right here in our community?
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It figures—right?—that on one of the most uncomfortably hot days of this summer so far, our air conditioner would stop working.
We realized that our A/C wasn’t running just as my husband was headed out the door to a meeting. So, I jumped on Facebook to the STMA bulletin board group to see who the community was recommending for a fix, and the name I kept seeing there was Rol Air Plumbing & Heating.
Rol Air was able to send someone to our house within a couple of hours, and he arrived exactly when they said he would—so helpful to me as a busy mom! Jay (the owner) talked us through what was wrong with our A/C and helped us weigh the pros and cons of fixing just one part or replacing the whole system. My husband and I both felt like Jay was someone whose experience and recommendation we could trust.
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As your kids are getting ready to head back to school, now is a great time to consider signing them up for music lessons. Not only is there a great window here where you can capitalize on your kids’ back-to-school spirit, it also makes sense to build in music lessons to your school-year routine.
Rogers School of Music wanted to give us a taste of what it’s like to take lessons at their music studio, so I reached out to a friend of mine here in St. Michael whose 7-year-old daughter was interested in learning piano. Ana has now been taking lessons at Rogers School of Music for two months and has already learned a lot—and had a lot of fun doing it!