Tuesday Things.
1. Oh my word. One pan french onion gnocchi bake. Dead over that one.
2. My phone is autocorrecting the word “good” to FOOD. Why why why. I mean, I use both often, but shouldn’t it know by now? I also loathe the whole face ID thing. How does it still not recognize me all the time.
3. I mentioned a few weeks ago that Max loved to watch some of the cookie decorating clips on my Instagram. He has seen commercials for shows like Cake Boss, Cupcake Wars, etc and now is begging to watch them. It is so cute. I never watched the Great British Baking Show but I’m thinking he and I should watch and episode.
4. Okay so speaking of, what good TV was on this week? Billions was so so good. We just love that show! Also, when will we find out when Southern Charm is coming back on? Can’t wait for it.
5. I love to read but I grew up reeeeally loving to read. I got so lost in stories. So I really enjoyed this article on why kids stop reading for fun. When I think about reading as a kid, for me it was getting lost in the story. Much like it still is now! We read to the kids everyday, but I can’t wait to read novels together too. Like Roald Dahl and Harry Potter, the latter of which I’ve never read.
6. Speaking of books, I love this: what I bought with my Oprah money.
7. I’ve asked before but what is your favorite east coast vacation spot?!
8. Apparently last week I missed that it was the 400th edition of Tuesday Things! So here we are, 401. What.in.the.world.
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Favorite East Coast spot- Williamsburg VA. Easy drive to the beach at VA beach or Norfolk, Busch Gardens, lot of historical things (Jamestown, Yorktown) and gorgeous. You can also go to richmond for a city vibe
I’ve lived there my whole life :) Lots to do during the summer for families! The historical stuff is fun, small beaches/river access, Busch Gardens and Water Country, wineries and good food!!
Best east coast vacation spot: Any city along the Outer Banks, NC. Lighthouses, jockey’s ridge, Wright Bros, museum, and great beaches.
I was coming here to suggest this! My family goes every year to OBX and I look forward to it EVERY. YEAR.
Also, Great British Baking Show is amazing. Purest reality TV there is.
Tybee Island, GA, 20 minutes outside of Savannah. It’s amazing!!!! 🏝🌊🌞
YES! Love Savannah. Love Tybee
Great British Baking Show is the BEST!!! it’s so fun to watch and i think really good to watch with little ones, because the contestants help each other, encourage each other, and overall the vibe is much kinder and not cutthroat like it can be on American competition shows. highly recommend. :)
Love the British Baking Show! You should try the new show the Village on NBC! Best East Coast place to vacation? York, Maine!!
You must watch The Great British Baking Show! My 7 year old daughter and I have watched every episode. It’s just the sweetest, most joyful show…and I’ve learned so much. You’ll love!
Best east coast vacation spot: Burlington, Vermont. Savannah. Asheville.
You will love the Outer Banks. It’s like the Jersey Shore minus all the people!
You will love the Great British Baking show! And Harry Potter for that matter! Martha’s vineyard and Portland, Maine were both great trips!
that gnocchi looks AMAZING.
My favorite East Coast vacay spot is the Outer Banks in North Carolina. We typically stay in Kill Devil Hills, Nag’s Head, or Kitty Hawk as it’s pretty central and there’s a fair amount going on there. We’ve stayed all the way down in Cape Hatteras, which is beautiful and certainly less busy, but was twenty minutes to the grocery store.
Great British Baking show is so relaxing to watch!! It’s so interesting to watch the bakes they come up with!
The most relaxing vacation I had was at Outerbanks, in late September, the Corolla Beach section. The house was right on the beach and I loved walking out there at night. So many of my friends absolutely love Hilton Head. I also love love love Charleston, SC. Just the food alone, and callies biscuits!?
Favorite east coast spot is Block Island, RI. It is amazing there!
My son is a little younger than Max and he likes to watch the Kids Baking Challenge. It’s on demand right now and it’s one of the few shows he’ll sit and watch.
My little boy loves this show too. We really enjoy watching it together.
Definitely watch Great British Baking Show! As other commenters have said, it’s very sweet, the contestants are so kind to one another and help each other, so it really reinforces positive behaviors! Also it’s just truly impressive how talented the bakers are!
Love Billions.
The Great British Baking Show is The Best. I basically loathe all American cooking competition shows as they promote false pressure and make things ridiculous. British Baking show? given the task and a reasonable amount of time to complete. So polite. I also love learning about all the different things they’re making
As for reading with kids, I started getting audiobooks for the car rides (long or short) so that it wasn’t always just me needing to sit down and read and we got to listen to lots of fun things together that I might not have had the stamina to read out loud myself. My kid is still a reader (age 13.5) and she also loves audiobooks in that mix.
Savannah is fabulous. Tybee Island (as mentioned above) also gets my vote. South Carolina- yes. Charleston.
Narragansett, Rhode Island! Perfect beaches, cost effective, family friendly, and great for day trips (Block Island, Mystic CT, Newport…).
Favorite east coast vacation spots – Kiawah Island, SC, St Augustine, FL
Best east coast vacay spot: I love Acadia National Park!! Bar Harbor is the sweetest town and Acadia is super fun, especially in summer. Also, I live in Boston so it’s not a vacation spot for me, but there’s tons to do here and I’ve heard it’s a super fun trip with kids!
7.) I’m headed to my favorite East Coast vacation spots later this summer. Email me and I’ll tell you more (not saying here in the comments section, for privacy reasons – you know how I am, haha ;) ).
I love the reading article. My girls are 10 and 7. My sister has a book club with my older daughter and I try to read aloud to both of them. We have done tales of a 4th grade nothing, Super fudge (Skipping the santa isn’t real chapter), little house on the prairie, all of the ramona books. I think I may start Harry Potter this summer poolside. I actually love reading with them now so much more than when they were small.
And our favorite vacation places are Rehoboth, Miami, the Cape and Nantucket. Depending on the season and how long we have. And I spent every summer on Long Beach Island NJ, which is pretty great, too
My 4yo loves to watching cooking videos on my phone😂 she and I watched all of sugar rush on Netflix together. It’s s baking competition- she likes to pretend she’s in it. And favorite east coast vacation spot is cape May New Jersey.
http://hiramblake.com By far the best vacation spot – my family went every summer as a kid and there are always other kids to play with, super safe, so fun, so beautiful, and family style dinners every night at the main house cooked for you. It’s a dream. I hope you’ll check it out! ♥️
Favorite spots as of this second ha:
-Acadia Park
-Charlottesville, VA —quick drive to Richmond and ——Williamsburg and va beach which is listed above a few times…and dc
-Washington DC
-Vermont—it’s small enough to not name cities ha
-Asheville
-does New Orleans count?
My daughter is 6, and we have been loving the Kids Baking Championship on Food Network, a bit more than GBBS (though I love that one to watch solo). On Demand has some back episodes. It’s such a fun thing to watch together, since we bake together too. And, now she asks to bake all kinds of concoctions, and her decorating skills have really been on point ;)
South Carolina coast….and my current home on the coast of Maine!
I am lucky enough to live in Vacationland, in the prettiest coastal town! Check out Camden, Maine!
I also highly recommend Outer Banks! We stay in Duck which we love. Close to Corolla and wild horse tours, fun beach and sound activities, and of course food and shopping. And really really good donuts … Duck Donuts!
Charleston!
Condé Nast named it the top US city for 8 YEARS in a row!
I’m happy to give y’all some restaurant recs when you decide to come here. 😊
Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada
Come to Nova Scotia, I’ll show you around!
Halifax, Peggy’s Cove, Cape Breton (Cabot Trail)
We love New Hampshire, between the lakes region and the mountains. So much to do. We loved watching Kid’s Baking Championship. I have been watching the kid food shows with my step daughter for years and its so much fun I hope kids will still like to read for fun, I loved Amelia Bedelia and Ramona when i was younger and then you know Babysitter’s club. Also as a side note, tried the cloud macchiato from Starbucks this weekend. Please tell me you can recreate that foam on top?? that is what ALL drinks should be topped with.
My fave East Coast vacay spot: I really should branch out, but I love returning to Stonington and Mystic, CT again and again. The more famous and touristy Mystic is a short 10-minute drive away from Stonington; it has an aquarium for the kids (or, for EVERYONE, cuz who doesn’t love an aquarium??), plus historic Mystic seaport with old ships you can walk around on and an historic village to explore. There’s also great village shopping, both in Old Mystick Village and in the downtown area. Beautiful views are everywhere, and be sure to catch the Mystic Bridge when it goes up each hour to let the boats pass (good, cheap fun!).
Stonington is much less touristy, and it has a beautiful, near-360 view of the water at Stonington Point. There’s a small lighthouse to explore, and a cute town with old houses along it. Retreat here after the busy day in Mystic. Sleep here, too. There’s a winery nearby with good wine.
For dinner, do what the locals do: Stand on line at Abbott’s in the Rough in nearby Noank to get the best darn steamed lobster of your life (shell cracked open for you!) and eat outside overlooking the water and watching the boats. I also recommend Ford’s Lobster, also in Noank, for their Lobster Bomb; worth every freakin’ penny. Ford’s has very limited outdoor seating, but a good amount of seating indoors; good for a rainy day. After any dinner, be sure to go to the Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream for dessert; you’ll probably see the same people you saw standing on line for Abbott’s. :-)
Mystic/Stonington is an excellent weekend trip since there’s stuff to do, but not THAT much to do. It’s full of beautiful sea views, family fun, amazingly fresh seafood from just about any restaurant or seaside shack (there are plenty more I didn’t call out here), and I can’t think of a better summer vacay spot.
We love, love, love Hilton Head Island, SC and have been vacationing there every year for the past 20 years. Max would love Shannon Tanner, a family entertainer who performs nightly at Shelter Cove Harbor and it’s free! There is a beautiful Disney Resort on Hilton Head, Island, fashioned after a fishing & hunting camp. It is so relaxing and fun – lots of activities for kids without all of the normal Disney stuff like characters, etc. The kids can go crabbing, make lots of crafts, sing songs around the campfire with s’mores + eat Mickey waffles for breakfast if you want! Hilton Head has the BEST bike paths too – we bike everywhere when we are there.
Omg you and Max should *totally* watch GBB together! It’s so great! and so wholesome/British! <3
I watch the GBBS with my son. He is 4 and will be 5 in August. He doesn’t love to watch it as much as I do, but when it gets to the part where someone has to go home, he tears up and gets so sad for them. It is really sweet to see his compassion. I love the show.
New TV – check out The Fix if you haven’t yet! At first it just seems like a fictionalized version of the OJ trial, but there are some really interesting twists on it and some amazing strong female characters.
Southern Charm comes back May 15th!! They just released the first trailer, and I cannot wait!! (I’m excited and I didn’t even have the sound on b/c I’m at work..) Ashley comes back… dun dun dun… Can’t wait for all the new drama!
Myrtle Beach is a favorite! Along with Savannah and Charleston.
I’m french and living in Brazil so I can’t really answer your question about the favourite east-coast vacation spot unless you’re opened to the idea of coming to Brazil hahaha !
But YES OH MY GOD WHEN IS SOUTHERN CHARM COMING BACK ? I can’t wait ! Best reality tv show ever, as I found it less vulgar than most of those tv programs ! I am obsessed (in a good way haha).
Anyway, love your blog ! Can’t wait to read your next posts either ;).
Lu
🥂#SouthernCharm: Season 6 premieres May 15th 8/7c