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Spend a week in Salt Lake City (with kids)

by RookieMom Heather on March 10, 2010

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If you’re in Utah and looking for some destinations that are just as fun for mom as they are for your kids (toddlers to tweens), Vanessa from INeverGrewUp.net and UtahsNaturalKids.com has got you covered with whole week’s worth — and then some.
{Still in your rookie year with a baby? Check out Vanessa’s favorite baby [...]

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Vicky, a mom of toddler boy/girl twins, blogs at TheCityCradle.com. I’m not sure when she found the time to write up her favorite spots in Las Vegas for moms and babies, but I’m glad she did.
Vicky tells us:
While Las Vegas doesn’t carry the reputation for being the most baby friendly city around, I find [...]

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Spend a week in Vancouver

by RookieMom Heather on February 11, 2010

in A Week in..., Canada, Free/Cheap, Mommy

Traveling to the Olympics with kids? Have fun!
Shana from Wee Travel tells us the best way to spend a week in Vancouver with little ones. Wee Travel (started by two moms who are sisters living on opposite sides of the country) rents baby gear and toys delivered to your door. All equipment is [...]

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Baby activities in Salt Lake City, UT

by RookieMom Heather on January 31, 2010

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Vanessa Brown was awesome enough to share a week’s worth of fun activities for rookie moms that are just as fun for mama as for baby. She is the busy mother of two girls that have a blast living in Utah enjoying nature and all of the wonderful attractions here. She is married to celebrity [...]

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Spend a week in Columbus with a toddler

by RookieMom Heather on December 18, 2009

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Christina from A Mommy Story is a friend we met at BlogHer years ago and a mom of two impish daughters, Cordy and Mira. And if that’s not enough, she’s also a nurse with a huge heart. She tells us how to spend the best week ever with a toddler in Columbus, OH.

Monday [...]

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Baby Activities in Boston

by Whitney on October 23, 2009

in A Week in..., Boston

The founder and editor of BostonMamas.com is Christine Koh. Her daughter Laurel is now in Kindergarten, but like me, she has no problem digging back into her brain to remember those first shocking months during which “going for a walk” is suddenly an activity to plan your day around.
Whether you are on maternity leave [...]

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5 Days of Activities in Pittsburgh, PA

by Whitney on October 11, 2009

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Our guest tour guide, Katy, is a true rookie mom who just returned to work after spending her maternity leave with baby Miles. You might think Katy is totally confident since she’s letting me post a picture of her with a nursing bra strap showing, but she wrote that she has “never, ever felt more [...]

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Toddler Activities in San Luis Obispo, CA

by Whitney on September 4, 2009

in A Week in..., Toddler

Kimberly Lisagor and I are best friends once removed. That is to say, our moms are best friends. (We ourselves haven’t seen each other for about twenty years, but, you know, god bless Facebook.) Our moms have known each other since grade school and had us, their rookie babies, when they were 23.
A travel writer [...]

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Spend a Week in Myrtle Beach, SC

by RookieMom Heather on August 15, 2009

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In honor of my two-days-old niece, Stacie from NewMommyHelp.net agreed to share with us a week’s worth of favorite baby and toddler activities in her hometown of Myrtle Beach, SC. My brother and his wife moved to South Carolina from Florida a few weeks before baby Casey was born so they’re all pretty new in [...]

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Spend another week in Chicago

by RookieMom Heather on August 7, 2009

in A Week in..., Chicago

Lisa Hazen is one of our very best online friends that we had never met (until we went ahead and met her a few weeks ago when visiting Chicago). She’s friend-of-friends with each of us many times over and she wrote one of the first ever guest posts of RookieMoms when our site was a [...]

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Spend a week in Birmingham, AL

by RookieMom Heather on July 10, 2009

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Jamie and her friends Angie and Trish from BirminghamMommy sent us a week’s worth of fun Birmingham, Al activities to do with a baby or toddler in tow. Wondering what to do in the heat with your baby or toddler? Wonder no more.
Monday: gardens and cookie factory!
Mondays are tough, even if you are on a [...]

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Fellow rookie mom Becky describes some of Boston’s best bets for babies especially for the Spring and Summer:
Monday — Play it Local
We live near Cleveland Circle in Brighton, Massachusetts, close to Boston College, sandwiched between the towns of Newton and Brookline. One of the delights of living in Boston is that it is so [...]

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