Celebrate Easter by attending a non-traditional egg hunt

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Adrienne

My daughters love a good Easter egg hunt.  We typically attend our town’s festivities, the Newmarket Recreation’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt, wearing snow boots, but we’re hopeful for green grass instead this year.    My friends all have their favorite egg hunts around the state, and some, like our town’s, are traditional.  This year, however, there are [...]

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New Hampshire Maple Weekend: March 27th & 28th

Posted on March 22, 2010 by The Mom Entrepreneur

My family loves New Hampshire Maple weekend! It is a sure sign that spring has arrived, and nothing beats the sweet smells and tastes of freshly made maple syrup. Over 65 sugar houses across the state will welcome visitors this year on March 27th and 28th. Visit and learn how maple syrup is made. Taste free [...]

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What did you do to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with your kids?

Posted on March 17, 2010 by The Mom Entrepreneur

Every year, we celebrate St. Patrick’s day two ways. The first is, we enjoy a family dinner, which includes green pancakes. Secondly, the kids have a bubble bath while listening to Irish music. We also use colored tablets to turn the water green. I also hide coins in the bath water and the kids love [...]

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Affordable skiing for the family

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Ray Bisson

Do you remember, before you had children, going skiing for the day? Lift tickets were expensive at $40-$50+ each!  But what a great time we had skiing with family and friends. Now, we have a 9 year-old and a 5 year-old and we want to share this activity with them. You could imagine our surprise when [...]

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Our kids prefer plays over movies!

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Ray Bisson

This past Christmas we took our kids to see “Christmas Carol” at the Seacoast Repertory Theater in Portsmouth, NH. When we walked in to the theater, our five-year old said “Oh, I love this place”. We sat in the front row and were able to really experience the action. We try to take our children to at least one play a [...]

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Building Workshops for Kids

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Ray Bisson

Throughout the winter we have taken our children to Lowe’s home improvement stores for their kid’s Build & Grow clinics. Lowe’s and Home Depot have workshops for kids to build pre-packaged wood sets.  So far at Lowe’s, our boys have built a gingerbread house, pet treat keeper, money bank and a tic-tac toe game. Usually when we [...]

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Screamer’s Café: Cooking Up Some Fun

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Adrienne

My daughters love to help me cook at home, and we were thrilled to learn about Screamer’s Café in Stratham, a family-friendly, casual-style restaurant that offers kids’ cooking classes (as well as great birthday parties). When my girls were as young as two, they loved to participate in the fun, interactive cooking classes, where kids [...]

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Wagon Hill Farm, Durham, NH

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Ray Bisson

If you drive along Route 4 between Durham and Dover Point, you will see a picturesque old wagon sitting on top of a hill at an old farm. If you drive this route in the winter, you can see hundreds of people sliding down the hill. Wagon Hill Farm is a 140 acre farm, which was purchased by [...]

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Exploring the Gonic Trails along the Isinglass River in Rochester, NH

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Ray Bisson

Recently, we learned about the Gonic Trails at Mount Isinglass Recreational Area in Rochester, NH. This facility is located a short distance from Route 125 in Gonic; a village of Rochester. The facility is part of the Waste Management Turnkey Recycling & Environmental Enterprises. On our first visit, we stopped at the nature trails. The trail [...]

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Shaw’s Rewards Card Summer Offers

Posted on June 10, 2009 by The Mom Entrepreneur

I recently discovered that Shaw’s Supermarket lists local tourist destinations on its website where the Shaw’s Rewards Card can be used to earn discounts. This includes popular spots in ME, NH, MA, VT and CT like the Seacoast Science Center, Strawberry Banke, Fisher Cats Baseball, Water Country, York’s Wild Kingdom and many more. Most offers are only [...]

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