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Growing up in New England, everyone seems to go to the Cape for a beach vacation. I have friends who live on the CT shoreline and they still go to the Cape for vacations. It’s a beautiful place, and we love it, too, but sometimes you just want to go somewhere else, someplace where you won’t run into a dozen…
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This week’s Delicious Dishes party is all about sharing some instant pot dinner recipes!. We’ve shared our 7 favorites from previous parties, but we want to know what YOUR faves are! I think everyone I know is back to school now, except for some Seattle friends. That also means we’re back to full activities and weeknights especially are busy, busy…
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This Book Club Bruschetta Dip recipe is sponsored by Paramount Pictures. Purchase your copy of BOOK CLUB movie (avail now for digital download and Blu-ray), and make plans to watch it at home this weekend. The movie stars four of Hollywood’s funniest female icons (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) who get together to discuss a book they’ve…
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The One and Only Kinetic Sand- Rated by kids, for kids is sponsored by Spin Master. We recently signed on to do the Kinetic Sand throwdown! Tasked with testing how a variety of products stood up to kids’ play, we decided that we’d do a little video and set up the three mini Martin kids to play, test, mold, stretch…
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This RV camping post is brought to you in partnership with GoRVing and Winnebago. We have loved doing more and more travel as our kids have gotten older and we’re becoming more confident travelers. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do this summer in terms of a vacation, and we’ve had some discussion amongst the ranks that camping would…
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This page corner bookmarks post is sponsored by The Brand Connection/Pentel, all ideas and opinions are my own. Someone who works at Pentel is my soul sister. Or soul brother. Someone over there was writing (with a very nice but I imagine also sort of plain pen) one day and thought about how awesome growing up in the late 80s…
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