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Why Your Family Should Stay at Homewood Suites New York/Midtown Manhattan Times Square During Your Next Trip to NYC
What do you look for in a hotel when you’re traveling as a family? I love luxury but when my husband and I travel with the kids we tend to be more practical preferring space, location, amenities, convenience, and overall value for the price of each night’s stay. Last weekend Emily and I enjoyed another…
Give Back to Baltimore with a Stay at Brookshire Suites
Forget everything you think you know about Baltimore from what you’ve seen on this year’s news. That’s not the Baltimore I know or the one you’ll see when you visit. Just an hour from downtown Washington, D.C., Baltimore (aka Charm City) is a destination that has so much to offer to baseball fanatics, history lovers,…
3 Reasons Why You’ll Love the New Kindle Paperwhite (that make it worth upgrading!)
As much as I love turning the pages of a book, my Kindle Paperwhite has become a beloved device that is one of my must-haves. For years I’ve loved the simplicity of the Paperwhite because it puts the reading experience first and allows me to enjoy favorite books free from eyestrain and glare that come…
Tribe Alive: Building Sustainable Global Partnerships and Empowering Women Through Ethical Fashion
My mother always says, “Everything happens for a reason” and she’s right. Or maybe I just read too many Thomas Hardy novels in high school and became a believer in fate and connections that materialize because they’re supposed to. That’s how I met Tribe Alive. A conference in fall of 2010 connected me with two…
Lessons From Molly Ringwald at Mom 2.0 Summit
This is part of a sponsored post series for Domain.ME It’s been a flashback kind of weekend where an unexpected journey to my tween years caused me to reflect on life and made me realize exactly how far I’ve come. Let me back up. For the last few days I’ve been in Scottsdale, Arizona attending…
IOGEAR’s MediaShair Wireless Media Hub Review: Road Warrior’s Version of a Swiss Army Knife (w. giveaway)
Guest review by Jim Barr IOGEAR’s MediaShair Wireless Media Hub does a little bit of everything in a compact package that is great on the go, making it the Road Warrior’s version of a Swiss Army Knife. The hardest part of doing this review was figuring out exactly what it does. Visiting the website and…
TotSpot: Mobile Marketplace for Buying & Selling Kids Fashion (and Ribbon Barrettes Benefitting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!)
This post is part of a compensated partnership with TotSpot One of my biggest parental challenges is dealing with the clothes that our kids have outgrown. Cleaning out closets is never fun but then dealing with what comes out is even worse. It’s easy to make piles of overly worn clothes that will go in…
6th Annual Holiday Gift Guides Coming Tomorrow!
It’s hard to believe this is the 6th year of my Holiday Gift Guides. Every year since I started blogging in 2008, I’ve been publishing holiday gift guides to help you wade through the endless products available on store shelves and online to find the very best items for your friends and loved ones. Every…
Minted Fuels My Love for Gorgeous Stationary Products (w. giveaway)
Despite the tech savvy, I have a huge weakness for gorgeous stationary and paper products. I love holding cards made out of thick stock featuring vibrant fresh designs that serve as an expression of personality and that’s exactly what you get with products from Minted. Not only do I love the high quality of products…
