Shortly after my daughter turned one, I lost my job. It was abrupt and unsettling, but I pulled myself together and put on my rose-colored glasses. I decided, for the near-term, I would go back to freelance writing and lean into mom life.

Whenever possible, I wanted this uptick in quality mother-daughter time to be intentional and delight us both. So I let myself daydream: where would I take Poppy (within reason and budget) now that I was unencumbered with a 9 to 5? I could let her run around Windover Hall at the Milwaukee Art Museum , daytrip to Sheboygan’s Bookworm Gardens , or do a tour of local play cafes. But for proximity and pocketbook, our first “funemployed” outing was the Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners. (Perhaps unsurprising for a flower lover who named her dau

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