It is easy being green, or at least greener, with these three innovative websites. ECHOage,  Zwaggle, Green Dimes can help your family think outside the box when it comes to birthday parties, swapping and junk mail, plus, they are all free. Haven’t heard of them?  Read on to get the skinny.

ECHOage Remember […]

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Laurel Barrie has 20 years’ experience connecting families and summer camps through her free Summer Camp Matchmaking service. The Camp Connection represents over 500 summer programs that have been visited while camp is in session, referenced and reviewed. Their goal is to help make lots of Happy Campers!
We asked Laurel to answer some of our […]

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Having a grown up meal out in a restaurant isn’t really a luxury. It can be a survival tactic for stressed out parents who have virtually forgotten that they share anything in common besides the DNA of their children and their inability to get The Wonder Pets theme song out of their head. But figuring […]

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As we’ve been turning everything over onto the new server, we’ve had the chance to look through the archives at all the old posts. It’s amazing. I can’t believe how much we covered in one year. This week we’ll be posting our best posts from the whole year by category. Look forward to Best Food […]

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photo by slapjack
—or how to get the biggest, nicest, cheapest Xmas tree in NYC
This morning they were setting up the Christmas tree stall on the corner of our school’s block and my kids ooh’ed and ahh’ed at the gorgeous, giant trees. The light rain made walking past them smell fabulous. Even for a Grinch like […]

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As the end of the year and the holiday season approaches I start to think of photos. Whether it’s realizing that another year has gone by that I haven’t organized our photos into albums, or the thought that maybe I should put together some photos of the kids for holiday gifts.
Luckily my friend, Sara, […]

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Congratulations to Sharon who won the Ayumie Horie Pottery Giveaway. It’s truly beautiful.
Next up, I’ve been hyping today’s giveaway for a week and a half. I’m super excited about it and I hope everyone else is too.
How many moms have thought, “You know what I really need? A wife.”? Probably all of them. While […]

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If you watch An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s environmental exposé, it is quite likely that you followed the exact pattern of behavior we did immediately after watching the film.
For, in the final credits, there is a URL for a website which allows you to measure your personal household carbon footprint. If you do that you […]

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Nannies. They’re all around you, and yet, somehow the perfect one seems so unattainable. How do you find a nanny in New York City? Where do you look? What do you look for? How do you know they’re the right one? And what do you do once you get them? How […]

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I wonder how the Iron Chef would do with school lunches. “Okay, you’ve got ten minutes to make a healthy, fun, kid-friendly lunch that my child can eat in 15 minutes and you can only use what’s in my fridge. Go!” Now that’s a food challenge—the one parents face every weekday morning. Whether their kids […]

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