Kristina Light

Kristina Light, Web Editor for KCParent.com, grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and is happily raising her family in her hometown. She and her husband, Ron, have three daughters. Kristina loves exploring Kansas City's treasured places and meeting the wonderful people who bring our city to life. Her hobbies include writing, public speaking, herb gardening, cooking, crafts with her girls, exploring museums, reading, learning new things, and MOPS.

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• The Most Fun you can have for FREE

  published: 1/25/2010 12:00:00 AM

      This winter we've enjoyed several fun family field-trips that don't cost a dime. We adore Kaleidoscope and KidScape at the Johnson County Museum, but these are fairly popular outings so today I wanted to share five FREE outings that are also some of Kansas City's Best Kept Secrets!

  1. Lowe's Build and Grow Workshops (www.lowesbuildandgrow.com): On the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month, Lowe's Hardware Stores across the metro offer the BEST woodworking ...

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• Cabin Fever = We NEED to Actively Play!

  published: 1/18/2010 12:00:00 AM

      Since December 1, we've been home much more than usual - granted our usual isn't home much as we LOVE outings, but still.... between the birth of the new baby, the snow, a round of colds, and holidays... we've been "homebound" a lot. With my girls (4, 2, and now 1 mos), we do well with preschool at home, cooking, art, library books, games, activities, etc... but they still desperately NEED active play and ...

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• Children and Chopsticks

  published: 1/11/2010 12:00:00 AM

       For a fun and entertaining family dinner, we love Japanese Steakhouses. The chefs prepare a teppanyaki (Japanese stir fry) dinner on a hibachi right before your eyes, set flame to onion volcanoes or steam trains, juggle knives, and throw shrimp into the mouths of coordinated dining guests (Ron catches them about 75% of the time, I have a success rate of about 5%). If you’re not a teriyaki fan, each of these restaurants also ...

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• Top 10 Signs You Know You're a Mommy

  published: 1/4/2010 12:00:00 AM

      This weekend, my husband and I considered renting a movie. As I scanned Red Box for titles, I realized I hadn't heard of most of the films on the list... in fact the only movies I was familiar with were animated and/or starred animals. When did this happen? And then it occurred to me... this is only ONE significant change brought about by Mommyhood.

     This is my Top 10 List of Signs You're a Mom. How many can ...

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