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A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

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March 17, 2025 One Pot Spicy Alla Vodka Pizza Pasta

So it is getting to be that point in the year when I have hit that recipe rut. Well I mean, I hit it in like week two of January, but I want to pretend like I am winning this year. So I was searching the internet and I came across this recipe for spicy […]

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March 14, 2025 Everyone Gets Them While They’re Hot: Sheet Pan Pancakes

My big thing with making traditional pancakes for my family is that I would make them in batches, put them in the oven to keep them warm, but really no one would get hot pancakes. With sheet pan pancakes, everyone gets to eat them at the same time, and everyone gets to eat them while […]

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March 13, 2025 Valentine’s Day > Friendship Day > Nothing

Valentine’s Day was my favorite holiday growing up. Making home made Valentines for my friends, glue sticks and heart doilies. With my kids it was decorating bags and fun toys to give to friends. Recently though, our school district decided to do away with Valentine’s Day, or Friendship Day, as it was most recently changed […]

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March 6, 2025 February Break Skiing at Okemo in Vermont

View this post on Instagram A post shared by A Little Bit About a Lot of Things (@d_grubs) We decided to pack up the car and spend February vacation with a few friends in Vermont, skiing at Okemo. I went to Stowe, Vermont as a kid during February break, so I was excited to try […]

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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 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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December 16, 2024 Sometimes You Have To Take Shortcuts: Gingerbread Houses and Cookies

I think that when I had my first child I had these holiday visions of the perfect gingerbread house – beautiful icing, rainbow colors, gumdrop roof, peppermint walkway. And then I had my third child and reality set in that frosting ends up EVERYWHERE, its a sticky mess, there are globs and blobs, someone ends […]

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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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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 25, 2024 4 Places to Eat in Salem

We have been driving past Ziggy and Sons Donuts for years now and the timing has never been right to stop in. So one day we figured we would make the trip to Salem just to try out the food. Salem might be a place harder to find parking than the city of Boston! We […]

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