Archive for July, 2011

My two youngest have an absolute fascination with The Smurfs. To me this is super funny because they aren’t really cartoons that have been around much on television during their life time. But in preparation for the opening of The Smurfs in theaters today, there has been quite a lot of buzz for weeks. Because [Continue]

What an exciting adventure yesterday was! I was among a group of consumers and media invited by The Hershey Company to experience one of their newest product Hershey’s Air Delight – which launched in June – in a very fun and unique way. To highlight the new chocolate candy’s airy, whipped, and light filling (since [Continue]

Around the age of 18 years old I discovered Italy. It was my first visit to Europe. I had taken a few lessons in the language, had read a few books, watched a few movies, but none of it would ever prepare me for the experience that was Italy for the first time for me. [Continue]

Week 2 almost over, which means fitness journal time! Some news to share and why I was a little sad this week as well. I talk a lot about John my trainer. He pushes me really hard and brings on the pain a lot, but he’s also a sweetheart and so I wanted to give [Continue]

When I was a student in college and worked as a sales girl in a Fifth Avenue boutique, I would often walk by the famous FAO Schwarz toy store and feel the little girl in me come alive. There were times, especially during the holidays, when I would walk in and marvel at their display [Continue]

One of my absolute favorite airlines, JetBlue, has partnered up with one of my very favorite children’s programing stations, PBS Kids, to launch “Soar with Reading” a reading program that aims to keep children reading wherever they go this summer – with a combination of in-flight and online literacy resources, community reading events [Continue]

Just found out that our friends at Smart Destinations are offering traveling families an easier way to discover some of the best cities in the U.S. with one of their most convenient products for us, the Family FunPass. With passes to cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Southern CA [Continue]

I hardly ever make anything really fun and special during the summer months, or at least I haven’t for a long time now because living in a small apartment in NYC didn’t allow for much room for entertaining. However, now that we have recently moved into a much larger home, I have suddenly become inspired [Continue]

My family and I love road trips. For families with small children, or with a lot of them which is our case, road trips provide a way of experiencing the immediate world around us, without the extra expenditure of plane tickets and the hassles that often come with flying. Road trips also mean that, as [Continue]

Some people say we’re online too much, that no one picks up the phone and calls anymore. That our face-to-face is more and more limited. Well, this may be true, but life is busy, and it isn’t often when you can get friends or family at a good time for a nice, long chat and [Continue]