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new for us friday: new foods, games, challenges, ideas, adventures for our family

stay sane during the holidays: Blue Apron makes feeding family easy and fun

Our family loves food. We love food. We love to make food, talk about food, celebrate with food, and eat food. My kids are food …

Halloween's almost here, but candy corn and tons of sweet treats have been in the grocery stores for what seems like weeks now. Cora and I took …

We did it. We slept at the National Archives. The National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. Slept. In the museum. All night long. With …

Mother's Day is the ideal time to treat yourself--or your mama--to something relaxing, peaceful, calming. It's a day to celebrate and thank your …

We are about six weeks into our laundry re-vamp, and things are going well. To be 100% honest, we have had some …

I've been working with my friends from Whirlpool, sharing what we're doing over here to teach our kids to do the …

Toy Fair was last week in NYC, and it was off the hook. I mean it. Totally looking forward to sharing what I learned, what I saw, and some …

My kids are learning how to do laundry. And they love it. Love it. No joke. And I want to dance! At 10, 8, …

It's been pretty quiet on the blog for the last few weeks, but it's been insanely busy on the home front. We're undergoing …

Holiday giveaway SERIES, I should say. That's right. Twenty-six giveaways, and you'll love each and every one of them. It's a rockstar line-up of …

elf, the broadway musical, is coming to the Baltimore Lyric Opera House next week. And I've got two tickets to give to a …

Did you know? The 4th annual Neighborhood Toy Store Day will be held on Saturday, November 9, 2013 to help kick off the holiday …

Talking big topics with your kids is sometimes so hard. Especially if you’re as emotional a person as I am. But as our kids …

I am a longtime fan of the neighborhood toy store. In fact, I can honestly say that I honest-to-goodness totally heart my …

Today was our holiday cookie-baking day, and we made an all-time fave: Iced Pumpkin Spice Cookies! We baked a million cookies, and we're still not …

We love chickens. We really do. We love backyard chickens. As in, we love them thanks to two hens who came to us from Rent a Coop here in the DC …

We are loving--and I mean loving--the Rainbow Loom. We're bracelet-making, ring-wearing, tiny-rubber-band toting fools. …

Did you know that this summer Maryland fire safety laws have changed and that most likely you are affected? Me …

Our Owen was a Cars fan from the time he could crawl. He toddled around with McQueen and Mater in his chubby little hands, and when he turned …

Maybe every other family in the world has tried fishing, but ours has not. That is, until this week. Now? We're like total fishermen. Fishers of …