Category Archives: July

Friday Freebies – July 29 – 31

ComeUnity Now Festival – July 30th from 10:00 am – 10:00 pm  This is a gathering of non-profits, individuals, corporations and communities of faith coming together to celebrate the uniqueness of our city, identifying how we can grow by serving each other when a disaster strikes and to encourage this spirit to remain in place. WHAT [...]

Friday Freebies – July 22 – 24

Friday Freebie #1 Deja Mi is sponsoroing a free music festival called Deja Fest from July 22nd and July 23rd in Downtown Raleigh. Check out six venues featuring 24 bands, including Tir Na Nog, The Pour House and Lincoln Theatre. Bands include Hooray for Earth, Nick Catchdubs, Old Bricks, and Double Dare featuring Apple Juice [...]

Entertainment on the Road

Love, love, love this idea for weekend road trips over the summer months.  Or better yet, when you have a long haul for your family’s big adventure to a faraway place that requires hours of patience in a car with cranky kids, grouchy husbands… you get the idea. So if you are traveling this summer, whether on [...]

Friday Freebies and Beyond

Free (Mostly Free) Summer Activities from Sir Walter Chevy and Chevy Mom.com AMF Bowling – Kids Bowl Free Children 16 and under can bowl free at your local AMF. It’s not! Just register your children , and you’ll receive your first coupons via email within 24 hours for 2 free games per child per day. [...]

Friday Freebies – July 1 – 4

Town of Garner’s July 3rd Celebration featuring the North Carolina Symphony Sunday, July 3 Lake Benson Park, 921 Buffaloe Road 5-10 p.m. Annually, Garner and its neighbors come together to celebrate our nation’s independence on July 3rd at Lake Benson Park. Gates open at 5 p.m. Enjoy musical entertainment from Liquid Pleasure followed by the [...]

Move over Bunny!

My scheduled c section is quickly approaching. August 2, Parker will be here! Claire has been buckling her bunny rabbit, a.k.a “Cinderella Tiara Bunny” in the seat beside her. I don’t know how she’s going to take it when I tell her that Cinderella Bunny is going to have to move over to make room [...]

Riding in Style!

We took Jay’s parents out to a nice dinner to celebrate their retirement this past weekend. We surprised them by sneeking a couple of family members into town and we all piled into the Traverse! We took Claire’s car seat out. It was weird to not have a car seat in there! We very comfortably [...]

Back from the Beach!

We had our first beach trip in the Traverse. We loaded up the back. We just folded that third row down! It was so nice to not have to worry about running out of room or having to pack stuff around Claire and her car seat in the back seat! She recently is in this [...]