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20 Best Summer Books

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Friends, you know we love our books around these parts! We love sharing our latest picks and favorite finds through our monthly virtual book club, and we LOVE hearing what YOU think as we break it all down. One of the coolest parts of our book club year is partnering with blogging friends at the kick-off of […]

Time to Print Photos the Easy Way!

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***Thanks to Amazon for sponsoring this post and providing prizes for the giveaway so I could scoop you on how to print your photos the easy way!*** Raise your hand if you have scads of pics on your phone that are in desperate need of some storage, organization, printing and/or all three? And also raise your […]

You Can’t Win Them All, Mama

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Listen up, mamas. You need to hear this one. As seasons in this raising kids gig go, the end of school is, shall we say, INTENSE. I prefer the term BRUTAL, but I am working hard on pretending a positive spin versus diving full-on into drowning status. I have thought long and hard about the […]

Summer at Tuckerton

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This is a sponsored post brought to you by Real Mom Media. The opinions are completely my own based on my personal experience with the product. I’m delighted to share the events of Summer at Tuckerton with you! A few weeks ago, my family enjoyed a terrific day out at Tuckerton. We’d never visited this sweet […]

Spring Clean Beauty Products the Right Way!

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Our make-up drawers are like little beauty treasure chests filled with colorful palettes, lipsticks, blushes and much, much more. Some of it we don’t even use. Okay…a LOT of it we don’t use. And if you’re like me, you probably even have some of those little sample products swimming around among your go-to items. Let’s […]

Teacher Appreciation zulily-Style

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***Thank you to zulily for sponsoring this post so I could fill you in on the cool Thank a Teacher Contest they are running in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week!*** Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, friends! This is a week all us parents need to celebrate–the perfect way to say thank you to the individuals who love […]

This is How it Always Is Book Club

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This is How it Always Is is far and away the favorite book our book club has ever read! We are so delighted to share it with you, as we have been chatting about it endlessly since we first picked it. Please check out Carrie of Normal Level of Crazy‘s take below and join in […]