‘Cool Finds’ Articles

We’re continuing to share our water park adventures in what has been our “Road Trip Weekends“. The second park we’d like to feature is SplashDown Beach in Fishkill, NY.  SplashDown Beach is about an hour and a half drive from NYC. Of all the parks we visited, we consider Splashdown Beach the most manageable with little [Continue]

The family and I have made a promise to enjoy the remaining weekends left of summer as much as we possibly can, and so we have made August the month of  ”Road Trip Weekends“. We have visited at least three different water/amusement parks, and this week I will be sharing our experiences with you. I [Continue]

In an effort to inform and help navigate NYC for those who will be visiting for the SheStreams conference in September (read more about it here), I will be putting together a few videos, with support from AT&T, about NYC that I hope will help. My first video is an introduction to Times Square. You [Continue]

One of our favorite NYC destinations is the American Museum of Natural History. We love the museum so much we have had a membership to the museum for years now and the kids never get enough of it. The Museum is also a favorite field trip destination for many kids around the New York City [Continue]

Despite the rainy day today, Italian food company Barilla came out to help feed New Yorkers and others in need. Today was the first of the 4-day Meal for a Meal, where Barilla will hand out 20,000 free pasta dinner kits to New Yorkers at key transportation hubs around the city.  Today’s event launched in [Continue]

There are few moments in life when I am overcome with pure, unadulterated joy and love. Consistently, only a couple of things offer such euphoria for me: my husband, my children, and my NYC, especially during the sunset hour. I had the opportunity to take my husband on an impromptu date. I wanted to do [Continue]

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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]

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]