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Children will need to come dressed to play soccer, have non-marking athletic shoes, bring a snack, water bottle, & swimwear with them to camp. Volleyball & Swim $40 Members | $50 Non-Member (Single Day sessions) 6-13 year olds | Dec. 22nd or Dec. 29th 1:00-4:00pm Kids will come & receive an hour & a half of skills & drills from former division 1 volleyball player Natalie Chew. They will have a snack & head to the pool for free swim the last hour. Children will need to come dressed to play volleyball, have non-marking athletic shoes, bring a snack, water bottle, & swimwear with them to camp. Basketball & Swim $40 Members | $50 Non-Member (Single Day sessions) 6-13 year olds | Dec. 23rd or Dec. 30th 1:00-4:00pm Kids will come & receive an hour & a half of skills & drills from former Division 1 Basketball player, Meghan Knokey. They will have a snack & head to the pool for free swim the last hour. Children will need to come dressed to play Basketball, have non-marking athletic shoes, bring a snack, water bottle, & swimwear with them to camp. PIR Kidventure Days Full Year & Drop in Pricing Available / Family Plus Included 6-13 year olds | Bozeman PIR Days from 9:00-11:00am This program mimics our summertime kidventures program. We play different fitness focused games with the kids while parents workout or run errands. We've scheduled the days to coincide with Bozeman Public School PIR days and No school days. See schedule for days the program will occur. A LIMITED NUMBER OF FREE PRINT COPIES ARE AVAILABLE EACH MONTH. PLEASE SHARE WITH A FRIEND, READ ONLINE OR SUBSCRIBE AT MTPARENT.COM 4181 Fallon Ave. 406.586.1737 www.ridgeathletic.com :: decemBER ACTIVITY & EVENT CALENDARS + BLOG + MORE @ MTPARENT.COM :: decembER 2015 | mtparent.com 5 winter family fun December 2015 + much more +holidays COVER PHOTO BY MARIAH ALLEN PHOTOGRAPHY | STYLED BY MOLLY MCGEARTY - FAWN & CO. Winter Fun That Kind of Ski Mom 10 Montana Ballet Company 12 Nordic Ski Trails for the Whole Family 14 Ski Yellowstone’s Northern Range 16 Winter Wonders 18 Let’s Skate 19 Winter on my Doorstep 20 Holidays Dear Santa 21 Three Practical, Proactive Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep 22 Six Suggestions for Practicing Boundaries During the Holidays 23 Act Globally, Give Locally 24 The Magic of the Holidays 25 10 Stocking Stuffers for Dogs and Cats 26 On the Couch with Dr. Kelsch: The Gift of Time 28 Buy Local Gift Guide 29 NOT ONLY ARE WE ALWAYS THERE WITH GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT, BUT Health Clean Eats: Montana Parent Moroccan Lentil Stuffed Acorn Squash 36 ALSO SAVES YOU MONEY! A Baby, the Holidays and No Cheer 37 Keep a copy in your car so you always have the coupons on hand. Follow our quick reference The Flu and You 38 guide for on-the-go help: Corner on Health: Homelessness in Montana 39 Bozeman Birth Control Fund 40 heyday Spend $200, Get $20 Back Page 11 Columns i love kickboxing Trials and Tribulations in Parenting 41 3 classes and free gloves for $9.99 Page 18 New Column: Love, Dad: Learning from Loss 42 Hearts & Dreams Free 15 Minute Consultation Page 22 MOMoirs 43 ashley dawn photography Elsie’s Tips: Thinking About Time 44 50% off Page 29 The Family Business: Nutshell Naturals 45 bridger pilates PHOTOGRAPHY ALLEN MARIAH Movie Lovers: Christmas Classics from the ‘80s 46 holiday specials Page 30 Parenting Single 47 Bibs & Binkies PHOTO Photo Candy 62 Money off your Next Purchase with Featured Item Purchase Pages 32 & 33 What’s Up? Montana Growth spurts $10 off a $40 purchase page 44 Winter Break Activity Guide 50 Dinners Done Right What’s Up? Bozeman 53 $10 off any 6 or 12 meal package page 46 Tri Therapy Free phone consultation Page 59 family Deals & Discounts Page 60 6 deceMBER 2015 | mtparent.com editor’s Elfie E. KELLEY PHOTOGRAPHY KELLEY E. voice WRITTEN BY LEIGH RIPLEY PHOTO Magical creatures are pretty lame around our To complicate matters, our elf is boring. Have house. The Tooth Fairy never, ever comes you perused Elf on the Shelf on Pinterest? on the exact day a child loses a tooth – once Some wear little homemade clothes, color, she was two months late. The Easter Bunny watch TV and eat popcorn; others leave forgets to eat his carrots and never leaves messages in red and green M&M’s, make footprints in the snow. Not once has a snow angels in flour, have paper bag races Leprechaun visited and left behind evidence with stuffed animals and sip maple syrup with of Irish trickery (I think someone forgot to Barbie. Seriously – Barbie? We’re lucky if give us one). Santa does arrive promptly on Elfie even moves. Seniors the 25th of December, but I sleep restlessly every Christmas Eve, dreaming the same I can’t tell you how many times between terrible dream each year – that Santa, like the December 1 and 25 I’ve woken in the middle Tooth Fairy, will forget about us. But of all the of the night in a panic that our pathetic mythical disappointments my three children excuse for an Elf on the Shelf hasn’t moved have endured, the Elf on the Shelf is by far the a muscle and have jumped from the bed to worst. make sure he’s doing his job (or made my husband do so). We received the little elf with a freakish red boneless body and hard plastic face six years At dinner recently, the elf came up in ago. The kids were thrilled; I was angry. We conversation and the entire family agreed: Babies don’t have good luck with this sort of thing. he’s a loser. So it shouldn’t have come as Kids a shock when the middle child announced In the book that “Elfie” came with, we were firmly, “Why doesn’t someone just touch him informed that he would watch over the kids already and get it over with? Then we can get and make sure they stayed off the naughty list a new Elf of the Shelf, one that actually does until Christmas. Each night, he would fly back something.” to the North Pole and report the kids’ behavior to Santa Claus and then return to a different Waves of terror rippled through my husband spot in the house before they woke up. And and me. Admittedly, our elf sucks, but a new the book sternly warned NOT to touch the elf one probably wouldn’t be much better (please or he would lose his magic power and ability to refer to our track record with our Tooth fly back and forth from Bozeman to the North Fairy).