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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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January 17, 2025 Gingerbread Houses at The Langham Hotel: Paddington Edition

This year for the holidays, we decided to focus more on experiences over “things”. We decided to take our kids to the Langham Hotel again for their Gingerbread House event for the second year in a row. We paired up one big and one little, which we weren’t sure how it was going to go, […]

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January 14, 2025 Happy 2025!

Happy New Year!! What are you looking forward to as we start fresh? We are looking forward to more fun, more experiences, more living in the moment! We didnt even try to make it until midnight this year. It had been a long day. We pulled our confetti poppers early (and how cute are these […]

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January 6, 2025 Christmas 2024: Full Hearts, Even Fuller Stomachs

This was an especially long holiday break – what felt like 30,303.948.505,404,980 days long. We didn’t go away and only had a few day things planned. Keep it simple. That’s what I kept telling myself. So on the one hand, vacation went by very quickly, but on the other hand, the days dragged on. In […]

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December 20, 2024 Holiday Cheer is Here

How to gain ten pounds in a month 🙂 Give me all things peppermint! Trader Joe’s makes their Hold the Cone in a limited holiday peppermint flavor, Crescent Ridge offers their peppermint stick Holiday Cridgewich ice cream sandwiches, New City Micro Creamery offers holiday peppermint stick ice cream pies and Trombetta’s also offers a peppermint […]

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December 11, 2024 Ice Castles and Omni Mount Washington Hotel

With the holiday season fast approaching, I thought I would recap some fun winter activities, including a trip to the Ice Castles in New Hampshire. While the trip could definitely be done in a day, we decided to go overnight and stay at the Omni Mount Washington Hotel to make a fun girls weekend of […]

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December 4, 2024 Gingerbread Houses with the Neighborhood

We decided to have all the kids from our neighborhood over to decorate gingerbread houses for the holidays. We have a LOT of kids in our neighborhood, so, in the interest of keeping things simple and stress free, I picked up pre-made gingerbread houses from Target. If you didn’t want to spend this much money, […]

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December 2, 2024 Holidays

Now that Thanksgiving is over, I am in FULL holiday mode. Tree is up, shopping has already begun, and, let’s be honest, is almost done, and we are in baking M.O.D.E! Chex mix is a go to in this house, you can make it big batch and is super fun to package up and give […]

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November 27, 2024 Gingerbread Houses at The Langham Hotel

Last year, we had so much fun making gingerbread houses at the Langham Hotel in Boston. Led by pastry chef Kerry Levesque, children design their own houses while also indulging in a candy and hot chocolate bar and maybe even get a chance to see the big man himself! When you walk in you are […]

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November 15, 2024 Classroom Birthday Party

We decided not to do a big classroom birthday party this year. We opted for the big kids to come and read a story to the class and to give out these cute “party favors” instead. There is a small class, so we opted fot these Sun Squad chalk boxes with a cute home made […]

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