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It’s not too often that we find a story that spans the generations, but that is exactly what we have with the Civic Theatre’s Holiday Production of the Wizard of Oz. This is such a fun event for mom and dad and the kids as well as grandma and grandpa!
When I checked last week, many shows were sold out or close to sold out, so get your tickets now if you want a piece of this classic. We got our tickets last week for this upcoming Saturday and you’ll find us in the balcony off to the side because those were the best seats left!
My kids are especially excited to see the show because some of the munchkins are just 6 years old.
This family musical runs through December 18, 2012 with matinees at 2pm and evening curtain calls at 7:30pm.
Tickets range from $16 to $30 and you can find more information here.
And if you want to win your way to Oz, enter our giveaway for a family [4] pack of ticket vouchers.
To enter to win leave a comment below telling us what item ‘brings you home.’ [For Dorothy, it was her red shoes. For you, what item invokes nostalgia or a sense of home?]
Contest ends on December 5, 2012. A winner will be chosen by random and notified via email. Winners are also posted on the blog post after announcement.
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My kids bring me home. They are always laughing and smiling. I don’t know what I would do without my kids!!
What brings me home is a cup of Britt Coffee served up in our red mugs! Priceless, as our whole family loves to have a cup of coffee on Saturday mornings. Great family times. (And we would Love to see the Wizard of Oz!)
I love all the “old” toys that my parents kept from when my siblings and I were kids. It’s fun now watching my own child play with them.
Family time is what brings me home. Sitting outside by the camp fire telling stories form our past is always fun!
A picture of my family helps bring me home!
Good food brings me home! I think the smells of delicious food cooking reminds me more of “home” than anything else!
The smell of Prell shampoo reminds me of how the bathroom at home smelled after my dad’s showers.
Wherever my family is, that is home.
my kids
Winter! After living in North Carolina, California, and Illinois for most of my adult life, as winter approaches, I’m always reminded of home, good old Grand Rapids
The first couple of snow falls are a comforting reminder of my childhood. However, after Christmas, I have no desire to see snow again!
The oranments I made as a kid that still hang on my mom and dad tree. Home is always the place you were raised with all the memories and mom.
Food brings me home
One of my favorites is my Grandma’s 7 Layer Salad. When I was away at college it was the dish that I would make when I was most homesick. It’s amazing how eating something from home can bring home just a little bit closer.
My family!
I’d have to say the hee hee’s and ha ha’s that the kids are constantly yelling out bring me “home”.
What brings me home would be some of the meals my mom made as a child. What brings me home now is my daughter
Watching Disney movies with my kids takes me home to the days when I used to enjoy the same movies with my parents.
Any kind of smell from Christmas cookies to the musty smell of old boxes containing Christmas ornaments from childhood.
Playing with my kids brings back all the memories of growing up.
Building a snowman, sledding, getting crazy cold and coming inside for hot chocolate and a good Christmas movie.
Having time with my family is enough for me to be home! Our family has found out that life is to short and you never now what tomarrow brings so just us being together with good food and fun is plenty for me!
My daughter, whom I got to bring home from Guatemala a week before Christmas 3 years ago.
There was *always* music in the house when I was growing up, and not to tell my age (lol), but it was usually on vinyl. A record never fails to bring me home:)
I loved one special ornament on my parent’s christmas tree. 2 years ago she gave it to me to put on my tree. I can’t look at it without feeling like a kid again.
Mom’s home cooking! That and getting together with the rest of the family – brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews! It’s not too often we are all able to be together at the same time, so when it happens it’s very special to us all.
What brings me home is always the Lake Michigan beach. In Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall there is something about the sand and breeze that is calming and peaceful. Thank you for the chance to enter.
The fact that the family is altogether for the holiday. Grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters. EVERYONE!
Michigan snow and fall leaves make me feel like I am home.
Mashed potatoes always bring me back to Grandma’s house and Sunday lunch. Nummy!!!
Snowmobiling in the UP and my Italian grandpa’s hand crank sausage maker! That’s what sparks nostalgia during the holidays…
Decorating sugar cookies always makes me think of home. We did it every Christmas Eve day growing up.
we took the kids to this Sat night it was an amazing show! the singing was fabulous!!
I was brought home while decorating the tree yesterday – some of the ornaments I used to put up as a child now reside on my tree, just with new hands placing them.
Lake Michigan brings me home..I was fortunate to live by the beach in Holland growing up. I so miss that.
I see the kids running around at our family get togethers over the holidays and it reminds me of when I was a kid doing the same thing. Oh the fun times we had!
Watching Little House on the Prairie. Used to sit with my dad every week and watch my favorite show
What brings me home? Bullfrogs. I grew up in the woods with a pond and used to fall asleep in the summer to the music of the bullfrogs. Now that I live in GR, around a lot more people, it is actually much quieter at night!
My 4-year-old and I are actually reading The Wizard of Oz as our goodnight book right now so this would be great!
Listening to my dad tell me stories about my family’s history and tales passed down to him brings me home. It makes me feel connected to ancestors of the past.
My cozy, soft, warm bed!
For me it’s movie night with my husband and kiddos and if you were to ask our kids they would probably tell you family game night!
Nothing brings me home like my family!!! And just the coziness of being with the people I love!!
What brings me home is the fragrance of Coty Cosmetics face powder. When I was a little girl, my mom was not one to wear makeup around the house, it was only for special occasions. So when I’m in a store that sells Coty products I can’t resist “stopping to smell the roses”. A little sniff of her brand of face powder bring back the best memories.
God has blessed me with 3 wonderful kids! There’s no place like home with my kids!
For me, it is a “smell” that brings me back to the memories of home. I grew up in a farming community so the smell of onions in the fields really makes me think of home. I spent so much time with siblings playing outside that sometimes I think we even smelled like onions.
What brings me home are my two cats: Scratch & Sniff
The fact that I am grateful to have a home to go to at the end of a work day and all my children are tucked safely warm inside. God is an amazing God.
Family! There is no other word that means anything more
A Roaring fire and a cozy blanket!!!!
Family, food and a fire in the fireplace brings me home!
Family is what brings me home!
hmmmm What brings me home? Family comes first to mind, my children and there smiling faces. Then of course just the comfort one has of being at their own home. No matter where your at, your never as comfortable as you will be at home, with your sweats on and children in your arm! Thanks for the chance to win!
Lol. My van brings me home!
snuggeling in bed with my little munchkins.. just a calming feeling!!
My family brings me home. Can’t help it!
Making cookies while listening to the Christmas songs I listened to growing up. Make me feel like a kid again.
Eating dinner together every night and talking about our day. Such a great time.
Whenever I am far away from home…I remember the warmth I feel when I walk in the front door.
As a single mother to my 3 amazing boys there is nothing else that says ‘home’ more than them. Since I work second shift we don’t see each other often but value every minute we do have. My children will for ever be my world.
Family traditions bring me home…decorating the Christmas tree with homemade ornaments, family dinners, making Christmas cookies…anything that gets our family together and builds memories! <3
Stangly enough, for me it’s the view of corn and bean fields on a fall day. I can feel myself breathe deeper and relax. I grew up in Indiana and it just feel right when we cross over the MI/IN boarder and the the whole atmosphere just takes me “home”!
Starting the same traditions with my kids that my parents did with me. Remembering how excited I was when I was kid and seeing the same joy on my kids face brings me back home.
My husband and my sweet boys! Home is where your heart is!
The smell of pink peppermints. My grandpa always had a jar of them at his house for the grand kids to eat when we visited our grandparents. That smell always brings me back home!
Spending time with my family and extended family. There is nothing greater than seeing your kids happy and smiling. It just makes my day when my kids run up to me before bed and say “Daddy we love you!!!” It is also wonderful when family from out of state gets to come visit around the holidays.
My first thought would be family, but if I had to pick an object, it would be warm, comfy pajamas
Lazy days as a family when we just get to BE together. The best and most cherished during this season.
I love when the family is all together and we play games around the kitchen table, just like when we were young!
My handmade quilt my grandma made me!
For me is when I was little my dad worked different shifts & most holidays. On x-mas day we couldn’t open presents until we saw the police lights flashing in the drive way, so could open presents as a family.
Just the closeness of my family, which includes my husband, 2 daughters, 2 cats and 2 dogs!
Thinking of the time my mom raced “Santa” home on Christmas Eve so we would be in bed in time for him to arrive. “Santa” was really just a plane with a red blinking light, but I believed every word.
What brings me a sense of “home”, the warm fuzzies, is when my husband, children, and I sit by the fireplace and watch Christmas movies like Santa Clause is coming to town, and The year with out Santa Clause. Movies I watched as a kid. Then we balance that with going to the Christmas Musical at our Church. To see the excitement of Christmas in my Children’s eyes at both times truly warms my soul.
For me, it’s curling up with a comfy blanket, cocoa & a book! That was my favorite activity as a kid, & now my kids are doing the same!
What brings me home is my family! I have no family living in Grand Rapids and I often miss out on the day to day things with my parents, siblings, nieces and nephews. So during this holiday season it is so important for me to express to my children what family is and how important it is to have them in your life.
What brings me home is just having a fire in the fireplace and having my kids all around together.
I so want to see the show…I have a student who is playing one of the munchkins!!!
Being together with my large and loud family. Nothing beats it!!
The feeling of being safe and sound at home brings me home. The hugs and love I have from my family. Now that my parents are gone the memories of home are special.
Most of my family is back in Illinois, so always good to see them. My hometown where I grew up is the Pumpkin Capital of the World, so for me, pumpkins are a reminder of home – seeing them, smelling them, and eating them
Unpacking the tree ornaments each year; each with its own memory.
What brings me home is my family, spending time together.
Sitting in the dark looking at the Christmas tree lights! Also driving around looking at Christmas lights and listening to Christmas music.
Driving around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve with my family brings me home. This was a family tradition when I was a child, and now I get to continue the tradition with my husband and children.
What brings me home is to the play at the Civic every Christmas with my mother and grandmother. We would go out to eat at Hong Kong Inn and then walk down the decorated streets to The Civic. We did this every year until my grandmother was to sick to go. Now I take my daughter, one of her friends and we go to a play with my mom. Continuing the tradition. However, now we go to Bentham’s in the Amway since Hong Kong is no longer there. We just all dressed up. Great tradition to pass on in our family. It would be great to win these tickets because my husband is laid off and we do not have the money to buy the tickets this year.
The smell of a campfire. I get nostalgic every time.
Beautiful sunsets and sunrises always remind me of home, comfort, and the people I love… Nothing like a West Michigan sunset. And the smell of burning leaves in the fall…
Family photo albums “take me home”. They remind me of all the times gone by and people that I miss.
One of my many tastes of home, if putting up the Christmas tree. I love how excited the kids get when it’s time to hang the ornaments. My favorite part… setting up the nativity under the tree and sharing the story of Christmas.
My parents and the memories I have with them.
The smell of coffee brewing.
i grew up in Fla so “home” there is my mom and sis and my girlfriends from high school.
“Home” here in Michigan is summers by our lake with the kiddos, jumping in the fall leaves, first snowfall and spring awakening. (the seasons)
but one item would be my “It’s a Small World” Christmas ornament. Every time it plays reminds me of our family trips to Disney growing up and my dad who passed away in 2001. it was our favorite ride!
Christmas lights & music bring me home…makes me feel safe & joyous!
Great show for kids! Took my 8year old last night and she loved it. We were even able to pet Toto after the performance too. We had a great time.
The thing that says home theist to me is family tradition. One of my favorite Christmas traditions is going to Midnight Mass with my family (we fell asleep when we were kids) then going back to Mom’s house for Aunt Dee’s famous coffeecake. Finally, we help mom wrap gifts for the grand kids until the wee hours in the morning until we return home to wake up and celebrate Christmas morning with our own children.
Family brings me home!