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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Emergency Safety Travel Tips: 6 Things To Put in Your Trunk Now
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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…
Christmas in Hershey, PA: Start a Sweet New Tradition!
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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…
Kids Sports Are Coming (Somebody Hold Me) #AflacSweeps #ad
This post may contain affiliate links.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. Plus, he’s a serious climber with no fear. For a mom like me, who gets a knot in her stomach at the thought of her kids jumping in leaf piles…
The year was 1986… #PeeweesPlayhouse
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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…
A Parenting Wake-Up Call #IamProtective
This post may contain affiliate links.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….
A Moment Between Mothers
This post may contain affiliate links.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…
A Little About My Cray Side with Ancestry.com #surnameproject
This post may contain affiliate links.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…
On Being "That" Mom
This post may contain affiliate links.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…
Make it a Coffee Moment: All-American S’mores Coffee #CMSalutingHeroes
This post may contain affiliate links.I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This post about using Nestle Coffee-mate coffee moments to honor our military veterans has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for #CollectiveBias and its advertiser. In my neighborhood, the biggest party of the year is always held on the Fourth of…
