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A lifestyle blog with a focus on my food adventures

Category Archives: Trips

Want to up your child’s summer reading? Hummingbird Books can help! Just read 10 books (download the form here) and bring in your completed form (before September 1st) to the store to claim your prize pack like we did! You get your choice of Needoh from Hummingbird, a coupon for a free burger from Shake […]

Year two of our mother daughter trip to Hidden Pond! We can’t wait to do some of our favorite things we did last year and try a few new things this year! We stopped at Lil’s Cafe in Kittery on the way up to Kennebunkport to get some crullers, Lil’s makes the best! This year […]

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Two years ago (2022) we started a wonderful tradition of going to Hidden Pond for Mother’s Day. It’s a wonderful time to go before it starts getting busy. We have the property to ourselves for the most part, the restaurants aren’t crowded yet, parking is a breeze, and while the weather is a bit cooler, […]

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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored. All opinions are my own. I have to admit that Bluey was not a show that we regularly watch in our house. Right now it is all Pokemon all day every day, cringe. So I had some catching up to do. I made a Bluey cake to get us in […]

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At the beginning of the season, we decided to take all the boys in our grade (which is only about 16) to a WooSox game with another friend – a joint party. After some back and forth, we decided to rent out the Shaw’s visitors deck. It was a private roped off area that was […]

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Welcome to the first annual Cider Donut Palooza! A few friends of mine got together and we hit up 10 local orchards for a battle of the cider donuts. Which one came out on top? You’ll just have to keep reading! Who were the contenders? Honey Pot Hill Orchards, Berlin Orchards, Davidian Farm (not an […]

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This year it has been hard to “keep it normal” for the kids. For instance, we started this year off in a hybrid model for school, where they only met half the class in person and the other half they only saw on the computer. So between last year and this year, we, as a […]

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My kids love a good treasure hunt. What they don’t realize is that what takes them 15 minutes to complete, took me a week to plan! I have talked before about how we went from zero screen time before the pandemic to a few shows a day. One of our shows we like to watch […]

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While we may not be entertaining, I still like to make grazing boards. They’re fun to put together, they’re pretty to look at, and my kids love them. Here are some boards that I put together over the course of the quarantine. I love the leaf tortilla chips from Trader Joe’s, which is also where […]

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Before the pandemic, we didn’t have any screen time. I’m not saying that to brag. When the kids were at home when the pandemic started, we quickly went from no screen time to a few shows a day. That’s in addition to the time they spent on the computer for classes. At 2, my youngest […]

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