🎄 Start a New Holiday Tradition! There’s something extra special about kicking off the holiday season with a fresh-cut Christmas tree. 🎄 In our family, we recently started a new tradition — cutting down our own tree the day after Thanksgiving. It’s become one of our...
Local Food Banks With grocery prices continuing to rise and many families currently without SNAP benefits, food insecurity has become a growing concern in our community. Thankfully, several incredible organizations in and around Newtown are working every day to make...
Once Halloween is past its due date, you’ll probably be ready to get your kids’ candy out of the house. There are lots of good places to donate, from shelters to dentists’ offices to the military, but we stumbled upon this smart idea from The BakerMama and wanted to...
When cookbook author and Food Network star Melissa D’Arabian goes apple-picking, her go-to move with her apple haul is to make Caramel Apples. “My favorite variation is to slice them up and serve as a little ‘dessert’ alongside a cheese plate. You could do...
If you love a Dirty Shirley (a classic Shirley Temple spiked with vodka), try this Shirley Temple Black from Food52. It swaps in rum or Aperol for the vodka, and makes for a sophisticated twist on the childhood classic. It works well all year round – endless summer...
It feels like getting dressed in the summer should be easy, but between sweltering temperatures, unpredictable camp schedules, and trying to juggle work and parenting, pulling together a chic look everyday can be daunting. That’s why stocking your closet with a few...
