The 2015 Orange County Restaurant Week is happening all week through Saturday, March 7th with more than 100 restaurants participating in the countywide event.
During the weeklong event, participating restaurants will offer special three-course menus, many with a cocktail or signature item at no additional charge.
Each restaurant will have the freedom and flexibility to showcase its best offerings by talented chefs who will, no doubt, personalize each menu to reflect their individual culinary style. Participating restaurants will offer prix-fixe menus within the following price categories: lunch for $10, $15 or $20, and dinner for $20, $30, $40 or $50.
Following is a list of the restaurants participating in this year’s OC Restaurant Week 2015 (each name is linked to its menu!)
How to Learn to Love Running
I used to be a person who HATED running. Loathed it. Then about 8 months after I had my second baby, in my postpartum delirium, I decided I was going to start running and I signed up for a half marathon. 13.1 miles for someone who had never even ran one. Crazy. But I did it.
And you know what happened in the course of training for that? Over time I went from hating running to loving it. Something I never thought possible, never dreamed possible! In some ways changed my life. Because if a person like me could learn how to love running? Well, then the sky is the limit!
How to learn to love running in 10 easy steps (pun intended)
Go Ahead. Make Someone’s Day.
I get a gazillion emails, not to sound ‘oh so important!‘ because I am not, it’s simply due to the fact that bloggers can get added to numerous PR and pitch lists so over time the volume of emails can get a tad overwhelming.
Many of them I have to skim and move on, because there often are not enough hours in the day, but this one email caught my eye. Well, actually it was the follow-up email that caught my eye…
Tiny Dancers
This article on the Early Childhood Benefits of Dance is brought to you by Team OC, a Tiny Oranges Sponsor.
Little girls and dance. It can almost be too cute to handle.
The tights, the tutus, the ballet pink leotards, the little ballet shoes. Heaven. Admittedly, I might have been known to sign up my little girls for a dance class just to see them in the outfit!!! And the enjoyment and entertainment you get out of watching them in class is priceless.
But cute outfits and mommy entertainment aside, did you know there are many early childhood benefits of dance you might not have even thought of? Here’s how little ones can benefit from the joy of dance…….
Local Love: Juicy Outings for OC Families
We have this week off of school for Presidents’ Recess, so if any of you are also in the same boat I thought it might be fun to share some fun ideas of things to do with kids in Orange County. 
I love being a parent in Orange County because there are truly just so many fun things to do with kids here. Over the past 7 years we have blogged about a lot of fun ideas, so I thought it would be fun to do a summary of some of my favorite posts on this topic. I hope it might inspire some new adventure for your family!
Here are 25 ideas in no particular order: