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My Family’s Weekend in New York City

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, we headed to the Big Apple to see a Broadway show with my daughters’ Girl Scout troop and their families. We’ve taken the girls to New York City before for a day trip to Central Park’s Zoo, but this was a weekend trip and my girls were beyond excited to see their first Broadway show.

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Family Camping @ Avalon Campground

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One of our most favorite camping trips is to Avalon Campground in New Jersey. They keep the bathhouses somewhat clean, but it is a campground, not a high end hotel. Instead, we were at the southern most tip of the Jersey Shore, called Cape May Point. And it happened to me on my first trip to the Jersey shore.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

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On one of our driving trips, we visited the Shrine of the World Apostolate of Fatima in New Jersey on our way to see a niece at her college. I was baking some brownies for a friend and remembered that her daughter was vegan, so I wanted to adapt my sugar free recipe to use flax eggs instead. I didn’t know it would work.

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