This post was sponsored by Fresh Avocados – Love One Today® as part of an In-Home Party Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. It’s been an exceptionally fun summer. We’ve been traveling all over the NYC area to friends lake houses from CT to PA and spending a lot of time outdoors and with friends. It’s just like a summer right out… Keep Reading
Why the PB&J Will Always Be King of School Lunch
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ShopRitePBJLove #CollectiveBias Real Quick –>ShopRite is having a great deal received at check-out from 8/27 to 9/2 for Buy 4, Save $4 on the following products: Smucker’s® Fruit Spreads (17.5 – 18oz), Jif® Peanut Butter (16 oz), Pepperidge Farm Harvest Classics Bread and Slider Rolls, Ziploc® Sandwich Bags (40 ct). I was away… Keep Reading
Cirque du Soleil: OVO Is Coming To NYC for Labor Day!
If you’ve never seen a Cirque du Soleil, you need to grab tickets to this show ASAP. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to see a few in Vegas, Pittsburgh and New York, but Max hasn’t yet. Since he’s five and LOVE Broadways shows, this is now the perfect time to introduce him to the incredible show – OVO as one last hurrah before heading back-to-school for kindergarten. Cirque du Soleil: OVO will… Keep Reading
This New SportsCenter Show is Going to Change The Way You Watch Highlights
If you’re a sports girl like myself, you have grown up watching ESPN just like our parents left the weather channel on all day. Those early years in my twenties were spent with countless hours behind the bar, and SportsCenter, PTI and Around the Horn. I knew more stats that most “doods” walking in and it didn’t hurt my tips 🙂 But as a yinzer surrounded by sports in the… Keep Reading
Adventures of Back-To-School
This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Single Edition Media. This summer flew faster than Usain Blot in the Olympics. I don’t know about you, but back to school snuck right up on us and in two weeks, Max will start kindergarten. That means new school, new friends, new uniforms AND new grown up school supplies. #NotReadyToGrowUp. So we’re slowly transitioning into this new world of school-age life… Keep Reading
5 Things Pre-K Taught Me To Have for Back-To-School
Back-to-school. The time of year that moms start scrambling back to reality and trying to figure out just what they need – where IS that list from the school anyways?! Even though Max will just be starting kindergarten, I’ve learned over the last couple of years in “preschool” what necessities are, or as mom’s call in – survival. Don’t go crazy and Amazon Prime so much you spend more than… Keep Reading
10 Must-Haves for Beginner Campers
They say to survive you need three things: food water and shelter. And when it comes to travel, we’ve mastered the art of efficiency and basically following the same guidelines that I do with writing – KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Don’t take everything including the kitchen sink, just know what essentials are necessary. Here are my eight must-have components to going camping/hiking/into the great outdoors. Plus, they’re just good… Keep Reading
Plans tonight? How about a Fun Mom Dinner
Disclaimer: We had the opportunity to preview Fun Mom Dinner in advance and attend a press event to meet the cast hosted by Momentum Pictures. You really have to love all the attention and empowering mom moments happening coast to coast these days. It seems that we’ve been going backwards – forgetting how to have fun, do anything for ourselves and that yes, we do make mistakes and it’s okay to… Keep Reading
Surviving Summer: Beyond The Screen
Survey says, Max is bored being home with me everyday, all day. You think I would have learned my lesson. I used to laugh reading all those Facebook posts of moms cringing that summer was coming – that they were already counting down the days until their kids were BACK in school. It can’t be THAT BAD right? I mean, for those few years before pre-k Max never went to… Keep Reading
Which Headphone Hold Up Best Outdoors?
Starting a new sport always sounds fun until you realize all the equipment that goes with it. Biking requires fixing flat tires and helmets, hiking needs the right boots, water packs and bug spray and even running means you need to get fitted for the right shoe. Wait, what? Yes, it’s not as easy as you think to just head out and “rough” it, and since so many of you… Keep Reading