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The Boardwalk at Hersheypark: 11 Acres of Waterpark Fun!

August 12, 2018 By Wendy Leave a Comment

Looking for a family waterpark that’s perfect for all ages and has enough water attractions to keep everyone splashing all day long? The answer you’re looking for is right inside Hersheypark! That’s right, there’s an 11-acre family waterpark inside the sweet park you already know and love, and it’s included in your regular Hersheypark ticket…

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: family, Hersheypark, travel, Waterpark

Display Your Family Motto on a Custom Quilt

February 9, 2017 By Wendy Leave a Comment

Thank you to our friends at STITCHED for providing a custom quilt for our review. Do you have a family motto? Choosing a simple phrase that defines your family values, goals, and daily mission can be a quick and easy way of reminding your kids of an entire thought process in just a few words….

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Filed Under: Home Decor, Product & Service Reviews Tagged With: custom quilt, family, gifts, home decor, quilt

Emergency Safety Travel Tips: 6 Things To Put in Your Trunk Now

December 21, 2016 By Wendy Leave a Comment

Many thanks to State Farm® for working with us to bring you these emergency safety travel tips. I like to call it “December’s Law.” If something can happen in the weeks before Christmas to cost you a ton of money, it probably will. In my case, it was December 4th and it involved a large chunk…

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: car, family, safety, tips, travel

Christmas in Hershey, PA: Start a Sweet New Tradition!

November 4, 2016 By Wendy Leave a Comment

Whether you want to spend a day, a weekend, or a whole week in Hershey, PA, there’s so much family fun to be had during Christmas in Hershey, and it’s about to begin! We never let a season slip by without a family visit to Hersheypark, Chocolate World, Hershey Lodge or The Hotel Hershey, and it’s…

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Filed Under: Family Fun, Travel Tagged With: Christmas, family, Hershey, Hersheypark, holidays, PA travel, SweetestMoms, travel

Kids Sports Are Coming (Somebody Hold Me) #AflacSweeps #ad

October 27, 2014 By Wendy 4 Comments

Until now, my kids have been too young for organized sports. But the time is coming. My son has been talking about karate, soccer, baseball. He has also taken an interest in basketball, to the point where I was on the look out for the best indoor basketball I could find so he could take…

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Filed Under: Parenting & Family Tagged With: aflac, clever girls, family, leaf jumping, partnered, sports insurance, sports safety

The year was 1986… #PeeweesPlayhouse

October 23, 2014 By Wendy 2 Comments

This post was brought to you by Shout Factory who provided a media sample to facilitate my review. It was 1986. I was a Long Island girl with important things on my mind, like Duran Duran, purple eyeshadow and Stiff Stuff hairspray. Looming overheard? A move to Central Pennsylvania right before the start of my freshman…

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Filed Under: Family Fun, Product & Service Reviews Tagged With: DVD, family, fun, reviews

A Parenting Wake-Up Call #IamProtective

September 18, 2014 By Wendy 2 Comments

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias Like all new moms, I’ve been protecting my children since the day they were born. Protecting them from germs. Protecting them from mosquitos. Protecting them from crawling off the deck. Protecting their health, their safety, their feelings….

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Filed Under: Parenting & Family, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, parenting

A Moment Between Mothers

August 20, 2014 By Wendy 3 Comments

Someday, I will be the old woman who walks up to an overwhelmed mother in a parking lot as she juggles two small children, bags of groceries and a cart that won’t stay put.  I won’t notice that she has broken a sweat, but rather how beautiful it is that her rosy-cheeked, teething baby is sleeping peacefully against…

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Filed Under: Parenting & Family, The Everyday Tagged With: family, motherhood, parenting

A Little About My Cray Side with Ancestry.com #surnameproject

August 19, 2014 By Wendy Leave a Comment

Thanks to Ancestry.com for sponsoring today’s post and helping me create a family tree! A funny thing has been happening to my last name lately. Have you seen it? (The t-shirt is from Kohl’s.) Yup, my last name is Cray. Well, my maiden name, but I still use it much of the time. I always…

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Filed Under: Family Fun, Parenting & Family, Product & Service Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, family fun, free, history, parenting

On Being "That" Mom

July 22, 2014 By Wendy 2 Comments

There’s just something about being “that mom” in the grocery store – you know, the plain one with the unwashed hair and no time to accessorize, trying to handle a yelping 1yo who wants to walk through the bulk candy aisle by herself and a 4yo who WILL. NOT. STOP. “mom, mom, momming” long enough…

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Filed Under: Parenting & Family Tagged With: family, motherhood, parenting

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