Playing, Loving & Surviving the Games of Motherhood
My friend Holly is turning the big 3-0 and we are helping her celebrate with this awesome giveaway! One lucky winner will win a 5-Quart Kitchenaid Stand Mixer and a $100 Target gift card! How awesome is that?! I know I would love to win this for my 30th (which will be here in only a few short months – eek!).
Let’s show Holly some love on her big day! And good-luck to everyone entering! Follow the instructions below to enter:
I am SO excited to be celebrating my blog’s very first blogiversary! Admittedly, it’s a little belated, but better late than never. I feel so blessed to have spent the last year making new friends and sharing with all of you. I wanted to pass along the love that so many of you have shown me, and who doesn’t love adding a little pretty to their lives, not to mention doing a little shopping (for free!). Walking out of Sephora with a bag full of new, girly, fun make-up always puts a smile on my face and I hope it will one of yours as well.
I feel like the Jean-Georges restaurants I’ve visited have been a bit of a hit or miss. There are a few that I love (like Nogatine & Dune) and some that I really don’t (Lagoon in Bora Bora). But after 3 visits to ABC Kitchen, I can assure you that this one definitely falls into the love category. It won a James Beard best new restaurant award in 2011, and is consistently serving up delicious organic and locally sourced dishes. Everything is super fresh and seasonal (pretty much all of nyc has jumped on the farm to table bandwagon). It’s great to know that there is always going to be something new and delicious each time you go, but I have a few favorites that I would really like to see back on the menu this fall (squash toast and fried chicken, please!). At this visit, we started with a heirloom tomato toast, then split the burger and squash blossom pizza. The pizza was amazing, and worth going back for in itself. For dessert we had the ice cream sundae, which includes popcorn and candied peanuts and is swimming in chocolate sauce. Hungry yet?
I think we could all use a little motivation to get healthier, and what better motivation than a fun challenge! Slimkicker is a healthy living and fitness app that provides forums, calorie counting tools, challenges, and giveaways to entice users to make healthy changes. You earn points by counting calories or completing challenges that can be used towards rewards. They want to hear from you what diet or fitness challenge you’d like to participate in, like not drinking soda or eating processed meats for a week.
