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The first few weekends of fall are some of my favorite times of the season. No matter how hot or cold it is outside, we start decorating on the first weekend of Fall. I usually bake a loaf of pumpkin bread, apple pie, sweet potato pie, or pumpkin pie. However, the first thing we do is light up all the fall-scented candles. There’s nothing that gets us into the fall…
It’s that time of year when you’re over the summer heat, time seems to stop, and all you want to do is jump into something cold. You’re running around to summer picnics, planning last-minute vacations, prepping for back to school, and/or stressing about how you’re going to have to go back to five-day work weeks once summer Fridays end. Since Liam was born, our summer days look a little different…
We love celebrating holidays, mostly because of the food. Whether it’s a birthday, Halloween, Christmas, or an impromptu summer picnic, we love bringing all of our new recipes together to share with family and friends. With America’s birthday coming up, we’re offering some tips to throwing a Fourth of July picnic to make your celebration a success. This post is sponsored by Stop & Shop. Lilies and Loafers was compensated…
Our 2019 goals are not off to a great start. Target runs (big-box store shopping in general) have reverted back to their old ways. Our reading? Still on the same books. And a balanced diet? Sure, I think that’s the one goal we’re sort of hitting, at least with these air fried french fries. It’s so hard to try to wait until you’re out of everything. But then a few…
We purchased the Doona at a discounted rate in exchange for this review and subsequent posts on Instagram. All the planning we were doing throughout Fatima’s pregnancy involved how to make our lives easier for when our LO (little one) was born. We needed to maximize the storage potential in our apartment, find products that were dual purpose, and only get what we needed. As all parents know, that all goes out the…
We purchased the Doona at a discounted rate in exchange for this post and video. You can now purchase one from Amazon! All of the strollers we looked at were too bulky and hard for one person to manage on the subway. Then I saw the Doona at work. One of my coworkers uses it with her kid and had wonderful things to say about it. After a bit of…
Over the last two years, we talked about wanting to order an ancestry kit. As our pregnancy progressed, we thought more about our ancestry, health, genetics and how all of this will affect our kids. We reached out to 23 and Me and they sent us two complimentary Health + Ancestry kits. In my senior year of high school, we had to compile a life story (well the first 17…
This Hot Mana Hot Sauce giveaway ended Wednesday, 1/24/18. Thank you to everyone who entered! You guys, we’ll never be done talking about Hawaii. My cousin (the one living in Hawaii) starting crafting a deliciously-hot hot sauce a few months ago. Her first few batches sold out faster than you can say, “Maui”. It was hard for her own family to get a bottle of this stuff! But we were able…
This post is sponsored by FreshDirect. We are participating in FreshDirect’s Fourth Annual #FDFriendsgiving! In exchange for this blog post and photos of our Homestyle Mac and Cheese for Instagram, we were given a FreshDirect $100 gift card. It’s hard to think about my childhood without my mom’s baked mac and cheese. Usually made on nights the babysitters (aka one of my cousins) would come over. She would prepare a pan and stick it in…
This post, the gorgeous bouquet of flowers for my mom, and the special offer below are brought to you by The Bouqs Co. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not by Lilies and Loafers. Trying to find a Mother’s Day gift is one of the hardest things to do. Especially when your mom seems to have…
This post and party outfit are brought to you by our friends at Lovita & Co. “It’s not goodbye, it’s see you next weekend,” was the theme for my in-laws’ going away party. We planned this surprise bon voyage party because my in-laws moved to New Hampshire. With majority of the family still in Connecticut, including my sister-in-law, the family knows they’ll see my in-laws often. We didn’t want the party to…
This post and outfit is brought to you by our friends at Lovita & Co. Sundays for Brian and me mean long walks through Central Park, frozen yogurt, pizza, my favorite outfit and lots of laughs. We both work downtown, so on the weekends we stay local and avoid all touristy areas. The hustle and bustle of downtown can be draining and a break from that is much-needed on the weekends. Plus,…
This post brought to you by UncommonGoods. How is it February already?! Bye January! Now that we’re stuffed from the Super Bowl, we can start thinking about Valentine’s Day. As a kid, Valentine’s day felt like a mini Christmas. My family would get together for a nice dinner, exchanged gifts, and reminisced on fun, family adventures. Since Fatima and I started dating, we never celebrated Valentine’s Day because our anniversary…
This post brought to you by UncommonGoods. As Christmas gets closer, panic sets in as we try to figure out gifts for the hard-to-buy people in our lives. Our friends at UncommonGoods broke out their best gifts ‘for him’, ‘for her’, and for stocking stuffers to make it easy for us to find the best and most unusual gifts for the people in our lives. Why do we love UncommonGoods?…
This post brought to you by UncommonGoods. As Christmas gets closer, panic sets in as we try to figure out gifts for the hard-to-buy people in our lives. Our friends at UncommonGoods broke out their best gifts ‘for him’, ‘for her’, and for stocking stuffers to make it easy for us to find the best and most unusual gifts for the people in our lives. Why do we love UncommonGoods?…