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February 19, 2025 Unicorns and Mermaids: A Magical 6th Birthday

What do you do when you can’t decide what you want your birthday theme to be, unicorns or mermaids? You have them both of course. They go together right? Well, when you’re friend is a super talented cake designed, she sure makes them look like they belong together! My little was beyond over the moon […]

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February 14, 2025 Valentine Fun: Food, Crafts and Lots of Love

We love Valentine’s Day. Our favorite holiday after Halloween. Growing up, I loved making Valentines for friends at school and looking at all the ones my friends made for me. When I had kids of my own, I renewed my love for Valentines – but last year, our school stopped allowing them to be exchanged […]

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February 10, 2025 Valentine’s Day Ideas

Valentine’s Day is coming up quickly. I wanted to show you some cute baskets that I put together for the kids last year to give you inspiration as you shop this year. The wire baskets are from Target, and I use them for a bunch of things year round. The acrylic tags were personalized with […]

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February 5, 2025 Sweet Treats for Your Sweet Valentine

Desserts are my favorite – I think you should eat them first. We bake desserts for friends for all the holidays, it’s our love language. I usually don’t make sandwich cookies of any kind, because I just can’t handle the extra step, but we had some fancy jam, and, these seemed like a fun idea […]

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February 4, 2025 Valentine’s Day Sweets and Treats

I love a good m&m cookie on Valentine’s Day. They just give a good pop of color and a nice hearty cookie with a crunch on the outside that I love. Our neighbors love these too, they even request the crunchier the better 🙂 I know that snackle boxes are the new thing, but I […]

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January 29, 2025 Chinese New Year and Dumpling Making

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Leah invited us over to make dumplings at her house. The kids and I took over her kitchen and we got to work. The kids liked the pork dumplings, but we also made a mushroom version for Henry and Dan. The kids had the best time scooping and filling. […]

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January 25, 2025 Harry Potter: The Exhibition – Extended By Popular Demand

Sponsored Post: I was hosted for this experience. All opinions are my own. View this post on Instagram A post shared by A Little Bit About a Lot of Things (@d_grubs) Witches and Wizards alike will love the Harry Potter Exhibit now at the CambridgeSide Galleria. Fans now have until April 27th to come and […]

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January 24, 2025 Scandinavian Traditions: Good Luck For the New Year

Sometimes you have people come into your life, and they turn out to be very special people. We are fortunate to have so many of them. We have a neighbor, who told us about our house when the owner’s were thinking about selling it, and we bought it before they put it on the market. […]

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January 23, 2025 Cirque Du Soleil Presents: Ovo

Sponsored post: I was hosted for this show. All opinions are my own. Cirque du Soleil’s show Ovo’s name comes from the word “egg” in Portuguese. The colorful characters in the show are reimagined insects that guide you through a beautiful story, one that has no words. Ovo has all the components you want in […]

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January 20, 2025 Holiday Workshop: Decorating Gingerbread Houses at Eastern Standard Kitchen

For the holidays, we decided to try focus more on experiences this year, instead of things. The other kids went to The Langham Hotel to decorate a gingerbread house, so we went to Eastern Standard Kitchen to decorate one! At $185, this was a pricier event, but we had a whole banquette to ourselves, and […]

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