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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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Spend a week in Chicago

by RookieMom Heather on May 12, 2009

in A Week in..., Chicago, Eating, Free/Cheap, Indoors, Outside

Hey Chicago moms! Is our week in Chicago too touristy for you? Let us hear from you and we’ll feature your ideas next!

Jeff Pfaller is the rookie dad and blogger behind 365parents.com. He published all 365 posts into this this eBook, 365 First Time Parenting Tips: Infant Edition, for other first-time parents.
Jeff is also a [...]

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Fellow Bay Area baby blogger, Catherine, sent us this agenda for a week’s worth of preschooler activities in the South Bay. “Our family loves exploring the Bay Area,” she writes, “and I write a blog about our adventures, explorations, and food finds. I’ve comprised a list with a bit of everything for each day of [...]

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Spend a week in Orlando

by RookieMom Heather on February 13, 2009

in A Week in..., Eating, Free/Cheap

Warming up from the cold weather, we jet down to Orlando to spend a week doing fun family activities. Ok, we’re not really going anywhere, but if you already live in Orlando (or plan to visit), you can thank SuZ and her daughter (who’s almost the same age as Milo!) from NotYourTypicalMommy Blog for the [...]

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Spend a week in Ross Valley, CA

by Whitney on January 16, 2009

in A Week in..., Bay Area

My friend of a friend, Heather Hogan, moved to the Ross Valley area last year, just in time to spend her second rookie year in the beautiful, family-friendly cluster of towns located 40 minutes north of San Francisco. Her first daughter is in Kindergarten and her second is 11 months old.
Heather rounded [...]

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Spend a week in Marin

by RookieMom Heather on November 3, 2008

in A Week in..., Bay Area, Eating, Free/Cheap, Mommy

One of Whitney’s former LeapFroggy co-workers, Meg, is an avid traveler, adjusting to becoming a parent. She writes about it at Backpack to Buggy in the hopes of encouraging more parents to travel with their own children. As her travel budget is severely constrained (aka was spent for the year) she is having [...]

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Spend a week in Quebec City

by RookieMom Heather on August 29, 2008

in A Week in..., Canada, Eating, Free/Cheap, Outside

Another week of fun activities for moms and babies courtesy of Kristi at Ciao Bambino. If you’re a local mum, why not be a tourist in your own town for a week?!
Just visiting? Stay at the posh Hotel Manoir Victoria, which has a special entrance for strollers and an indoor pool.
What’s not to love [...]

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Spend a week in Austin

by RookieMom Heather on August 5, 2008

in A Week in..., Eating, Free/Cheap, Green, Outside, Texas

Alissa and the readers of BabyScoopAustin compiled this great week of fun (more like 2 weeks!) for parents in Austin, TX. Whether you’re new to Austin or consider yourself an Austinite, babyscoopaustin.com has the SCOOP on everything baby! If we ever make it to Texas, I know who I want to hang out with. Thanks [...]

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After much research on Mexico and Hawaii, Ryan and I began looking at rental houses in San Diego, not wanting to be contained in a resort where our search for a casual restaurant would be an ordeal. In San Diego, we’d get the weather, the beach, and be able to have oatmeal on hand [...]

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Karen Solomon, author of The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to San Francisco, used to work with Whitney years ago when the Internet was fresh and before they were both mamas (when I still lived across the Bay in San Francisco and dated all the wrong guys *sigh*).
If you’re coming to BlogHer with children next [...]

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Spend a week in Washington DC

by RookieMom Heather on July 1, 2008

in A Week in..., Eating, Mommy, Outside

All my in-laws live in Washington DC now. They went from being spread out in NYC and Boston to congregating in one city. If I can survive the travel, I’ll test drive this fun sounding week of activities in our nation’s capitol.
Local DC Mamas, do these sound like fun to you? Let us know what’s [...]

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Spend a week in Milan

by RookieMom Heather on April 22, 2008

in A Week in..., Eating, Europe

Sending out a huge Grazie to Michela in Milan for rounding out our wonderful set of activities by the moms from BabyccinoBlog. Michela kept telling us how UN-kid friendly Milan is, but she managed to come up with a fun array of activities for moms, babies, and young children.
We’re all in favor of mama getting [...]

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