Tag: summer

Sweet Summer Style

June 03, 2013   Kristen   1 Comment
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It’s officially Summer!  Celebrate the sweetest season by bedecking your abode with everything flip-flops, sandcastles and seashells!  And what better place to begin than your own front door?  Here is our essential collection of the cutest handmade Summertime wreaths on Etsy!  Click and buy, attempt a DIY or simply “pin” it for later–anyway you slice

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Flip Flop Party Ideas

June 01, 2013   Kristen   4 Comments
Flip Flop Cookies on sand

Have a Summer birthday to plan?  Here’s everything you’ll need to have a fun flip flop themed girl’s birthday celebration or a festive backyard BBQ!  Here’s an ode to my favorite foot gear that never goes out of style: the flip flop (I have a bona fide case of plantar fasciitis to prove the love!).

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Momma’s Little Helper for Swimmer’s Ear!

August 01, 2012   Kristen   2 Comments
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So, here we are in the midst of summertime! If you’re like my family, you’ve already hit up the pool quite a few times since Memorial Day. And if you’re like me your ears are starting to pay the price! I have sensitive ears to begin with and now being pregnant they have only gotten

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Cuban Style Avocado Salad

July 13, 2012   Kristen   8 Comments
This Cuban side dish is perfect for your summertime cookouts!

Going along with my Cuban cuisine posts, here is my favorite go-to salad for the hot Summer months: Cuban Avocado Salad!  In Cuban cooking, this salad (or a variation, see below) is served along with fresh Cuban bread and plantains or tostones (a salty fried plantain).  With its light dressing and fresh ingredients it is

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Curry Chicken Salad

June 11, 2012   Kristen   5 Comments
I love the fresh fruit and cashews in this salad. I used extra slices of apricots and the apricots tasted great with the dressing alone.

I saw this recipe in People when I had picked up the magazine in the checkout isle to see Jessica Simpson’s baby’s first pics.  The recipe looked so good that I decided to buy the magazine for “inspiration,” this is a better rationalization than just wanting to zone-out to celebrity gossip!  This recipe was by

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Fresh Strawberry Pie

May 28, 2012   Kristen   7 Comments
Celebrate the season with this sweet and easy strawberry pie!

With Memorial Day upon us, it is officially time for Summer!  I’ve proclaimed it before: I LOVE STRAWBERRIES!  In addition to their many health benefits, they are just plain delicious!  This is another recipe handed down from my Grandma, and a version of it has also been highly reviewed on Allrecipes.com. What I love about

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Strawberries

July 17, 2011   Kristen   4 Comments
Is there anything more simply delicious than a bowl of fresh strawberries?

  My Love Affair with Strawberries It’s Summertime and that means berry season!  And to me the most fairest berry of them all is the strawberry!  Maybe it was my childhood romance with everything and anything “Strawberry Shortcake” or maybe the fact that I lived in Florida and could go strawberry picking almost year-round.  Or

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What is the safest sunscreen for my child?

June 20, 2011   Kristen   4 Comments
Protect those precious little faces!

There is a lot of confusion out there about sunscreens.  So, I’ve decided to do some research on this front and post what I’ve found for all you mommas out there! As moms, we want our tots to be out all day at the park playing (and more importantly getting tired out) but we don’t

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