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June 5, 2024 Let’s Par-tee at Trombetta’s: Mini Golf Birthday Party
If you’re looking for an affordable birthday party option, Trombetta’s in Marlborough is your spot. Perfect for kids ages 5-8, they can host birthday parties of any size. You can bring your own food or have pizzas delivered from one of the local shops (Plum Tomato or Post Road Pizza). Bring your own drinks and […]
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June 3, 2024 Let’s Fly! Paper Airplane Birthday Cake
Every year for the kids, I get them one “fancy” cake (read: professional), and then one cake that I make. My son has been very in to making paper airplanes, so naturally, I made him paper airplane cake toppers. I Googled some colorful maps, printed them out and carefully folded them into small planes. I […]
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May 31, 2024 Out of the Box Birthday Gift Idea
Sometimes I get stuck on birthday gift ideas. I get into this rut of the same craft kits from Target, that, let’s be honest, are a little bit junky. After Easter I buy these buckets for about $1 each. They come with stickers, so you can personalize each one with the child’s name, or, you […]
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May 30, 2024 Free Books: Summer Reading with Barnes and Noble
I like to keep my kids reading in the summer. We do our local library’s summer reading program, but we also pair it with Barnes and Noble’s Summer reading program. It’s pretty cool if you don’t already know about it – designed for kids in grades 1-6. Children can read ANY eight (8) books this […]
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May 6, 2021 How Much Screen Time Are Your Kids Getting?
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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May 4, 2021 Recycled Crayons For Valentine’s Day And Every Day
I had known about recycled crayons for a long time, but never got around to making them. And then, the pandemic hit. We did every craft project known to man. There is something so wonderful about a new crayon. It’s sharp, it colors so smoothly…. and then all the sudden you find yourself faced with […]
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April 29, 2021 Driveway Birthday Parties…The New Trend?
Can I be honest for a minute? The one thing I actually don’t mind about the pandemic is that birthday parties have gone away. (EEK, I admitted it!) The BIG ones, the ones where you invite the whole class, you know what I’m talking about. And if you had more than one kid, forget about […]
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March 28, 2021 Random Acts of Kindness: Easter with Cubze
With Easter less than a week away, I thought I would share some fun ideas of what we are doing in our house. We usually have a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt, but this will be the second year that we will have to cancel it due to the pandemic. And while we are not having […]
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October 16, 2020 Quarantine Activities For Kids
We are how many months into this quarantine and I’m sure that like me, you are struggling for new things to do with your kids. I don’t know about you, but those rainy days kill us – we are trapped inside of the house with no way to burn off that excess energy. We do […]
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April 5, 2020 Easter
With the state that the world is in right now, Easter is bound to look a little different this year. For us, I usually host a neighborhood Easter egg hunt. We have about 25 littles and 50 adults come together for an afternoon of fun. This year we had to cancel, but hopefully we will […]
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