Summer Life in the City: Family Film Fest at the Prudential

There’s a funny thing people do when they are away from home and on vacation.  They go out.  They explore.  They stay out past the usual bedtimes.  They try new things. They carry on annual summer traditions.  The thing is, you don’t actually have to travel far or travel at all to do those things.  Summer in the…

Growing Season is Here: Now Just Add Cooking

Just as the farms are starting to grow some delicious things for us to eat here in New England (or to be fair the greenhouses are doing a lot of the work right now), the kids’ schedules are going crazy.  From end of year events, special meetings, concerts, recitals and ball games, planning for dinner…

Blue Dragon Meals: Takeout from your Kitchen (Giveaway)

It’s no secret that I love to cook, but that doesn’t mean I always have time to cook what I’d like.  There are days when I’m feeling rushed and I’m missing ingredients.  We have our fill of hot dog and chicken nugget days. Should I have my druthers, we would have cereal for dinner more…

Massage: An Enviable Start to the New Year (Giveaway)

January is well under way and I’ve realised that this first month of a year, which should be exciting, refreshing, and renewing is actually a bit of a rough month. We had a nice winter break, but there have been a lot of kids sick and parents too. New classes start up and old ones end….

Holiday Help from Stop & Shop: Sponsored Giveaway

Stop & Shop is doing their best to help you prep for your holiday open houses, Christmas dinners and New Year’s Eve parties.  They recently added a Boneless NY Strip Roast to their holiday offerings.  We don’t eat a lot of red meat, because we’re not huge meat eaters in our family, but for special…

Beware the Frozen Heart: Frozen The Songs (Giveaway)

I am sitting at my dining room table, the kids are off to school, and spinning in my cd player is Frozen: The Songs.  It has been a little while since the free-for-all summer days when we had the cd playing every day, on every car trip, and blasting in the living room so we…

Valentine’s Day Giveaway: From the Heart of the Kitchen

Instead of worrying about which are his favorite flowers, or which chocolates her ex used to get her, if you make something in your own kitchen from the heart you can’t go wrong.  Don’t be mistaken, I love flowers and good chocolates are a sweet gesture, but when someone makes me something my heart glows…