by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks, Tips + Tricks
Target rolled out their Black Friday deals way early this month, and we’ve been scouring the deals here. If you missed our post on last week’s Black Friday deals, don’t worry! Several of them are still marked down this week, like the Beats Studio 3...
by Kate Etue | DIY, Doing Good
With Thanksgiving looking so different this year, we’re really trying to focus on gratitude and gratitude activities, so that we’re spending more time feeling, well, thankful, instead of resentful. With my own Thanksgiving family plans cancelled —...
by Kate Etue | Tips + Tricks
Target has rolled out their Black Friday deals way early this month, so there’s no need to wait until after Thanksgiving to do your holiday shopping. Which is good, considering we are so down with the retail therapy right now. So we’ve put together the...
by Kate Etue | Toys + Playthings
The truth is, I don’t need an excuse to play scary board games for Halloween with my. kids. We’re full-fledged board game geeks at my house, and all games are an option for us, any time at all. But with so many families looking for safe trick-or-treat...
by Kate Etue | Doing Good, Kids
Raising money for UNICEF at Halloween has become a tradition for many of our readers and their kids, and it’s a cause we’ve supported since the very beginning of our site. That’s a long time! So we’re thrilled to announce that this year, even...
by Kate Etue | Doing Good
One of the proudest badges of participation in our democracy that we can wear is the little I Voted sticker after we walk away from the polls on Election Day. Â But this year, so many more of us are casting absentee ballots, voting by mail (which is safe!) or dropping...
by Kate Etue | DIY, Tips + Tricks
We’ve had quite a few readers ask for some trick-or-treat-signs for candy to help keep a socially distanced Halloween. This is a time that we may want to hand out candy but uh, maybe in a less-contact way. And hey, we found some great ones, most of them...
by Kate Etue | Tips + Tricks
I’m in several politically-minded Facebook groups, and lately, the women there have been asking what everyone is planning to wear to the polls this year so we can identify each other. Some said they’ll be in all blue, others will be wearing their RBG...
by Kate Etue | Doing Good
Political activism is something we talk about all the time here because, as Kristen so aptly said in a fantastic thread on our Instagram, “Parenting is politics is values is life.” We have been and will be doing everything we can this year to make sure...
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