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A birthday party at American Girl Place includes a private room, place settings for everyone’s dolls, dinner, cake and conversation starters, which were freaking hilarious.
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If you want some ideas for reasonably priced Valentines’ Day presents for your kids, I made a guide. I also included a few gifts that I want, some options for Mike and a few for your single friends too.
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Harlow has tried many box mixes and the results are clear— nothing compares to when she makes pancakes from scratch.
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It’s the 2019 Mommy Shorts Holiday Gift Guide! We’ve got gifts for kids, gifts for adults, and gifts for everyone in between; like panda lovers and people who are fans of Harlow’s baking show.
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11/20/19
How We Spent Harlow’s 7th Birthday
For her 7th birthday, Harlow requested Chinese takeout, doughnuts and to watch a movie at home. Honestly, I cannot think of a better way to spend an evening.
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Harlow has been filming episodes of her baking show faster than we can edit. Today, she’s making chocolate chip pancake tacos, which is my new favorite breakfast food.
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After I posted on social media, Noa Santos, their CEO, reached out to me for a meeting. I requested that he come to my apartment but he insisted that we meet in a restaurant. Fine. We met on February 7th…
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04/11/19
Harlow Thinks She has a Baking Show
I have never seen someone so enthusiastic while baking corn muffins in my life.
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Have you heard about the brand called Brandless yet? They sell everything from toothpaste to pancake mix and almost every item is only $3.
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Harlow wanted a fairy party, and then midway through planning switched to a star party, and then decided she wanted a butterfly party, and then finally settled on incorporating all three themes.
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As many of you know, my home renovation has not been the smoothest experience. But despite how painful the process has been, I am still very excited to reveal our new kitchen.
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I’ve been struggling to write a post about my experience with Home Polish. Then I thought— you know what? The pictures speak for themselves.
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12/10/18
STEM Toys for Chemistry Loving Kids
If your kid is obsessed with making slime, that’s a good thing, because, that’s SCIENCE! And there are tons of other cool experiments they can do to further fuel their love of chemistry.
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When Kid Made Modern reached out to collaborate for the holidays, I was relieved to hear that the purpose was to give toys away to a charity of our choosing instead of more to my kids!
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Normally, I shy away from partnerships that give us extravagant toys just for the hell of it, but this was Harlow’s birthday! The perfect opportunity to give her EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTS.
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