I am a crazy, curly haired friend and mother of two girls and an adorable rescue dog from the south. I moved to NYC almost 10 years ago and there have been many amazing adventures. Please join me here where I share all things NYC and beyond!
Meet the Crew:
Me running the NYC marathon!
A & R
Memphis
It's Always An Adventure 
I LOVE your blog!!!!!! If I knew a famous director, I’d send him/her your way!!!!!!!
Awww… you are too sweet!
Sandra I Love you and your Blog Awesome Job Gorgeous Woman
Nice going Sandra, I will live vicariously through you, NYC looks like such a great place, soooooo different from even the big city bustle of Toronto, keep it up.
Thanks Katrina!
Shopping stuff is really funny; but time to get busy on famous people sightings and photos.
We don’t need full pics; partials will do.
Now, get out there and start hunting! Here’s a map to get you started: http://nymag.com/news/people/18842/index4.html
I’m enjoying reading your blog. What a great experience. I’m living vicariously through you.
Thanks Jo, I hope all is well with your family and that you are feeling great xox
So, how was the actual YOGA? All the lead-up, formulating jealousy over the lack of showers/steam room at my Barrhaven-based yoga studio, did you enjoy the class? You know, I’m bringing my yoga gear when I come in December!
Yoga was AMAZING! I have guest passes set aside just for you.
Stinnett,
I love your blog! I am going to check in regularly and live vicariously through you and your adventures 🙂 I love NYC and am looking forward to hearing all about it.
Hope all are well and say hi to your parents.
Cairine
Sandra I love the blog, it makes me feel like you and the family aren’t so far away. Zach and I can’t wait to see you all, and Sacha is now reconsidering this whole Christmas gift trip to NYC.
Lots of love C
We can’t wait to see you!!!!! Miss you tons!! I am soo glad that you are reading the updates. It is a lot of fun and part of the idea was to stay close with family and friends =)
Lots of love xoxo
Gotta say, love the dogs’ names.
nice blog
Thank you and thanks for visiting =)
Hi, I just came across with your blog and thought to drop a line about it. I enjoyed reading your experiences of NYC.
Warm regards from Bayshore Dr in Ottawa:)
nice blog…. it;s one of my bucket list to visit NYC one day….. 🙂
Happy Holidays!
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HELLO
wow.your blog is great!
i love it!
I’m so enjoying to read your posts 🙂
Sandra, It’s great to see your blog! I’ll enjoy following your adventures! 🙂
Thanks Lisa!
Welcome to NYC. Seems your already enjoying the sights and having fun!
well, hello fellow canuck! You’ve a new subscriber! Congrats! 🙂
May I say, I am so glad I discovered your blog after you have been writing it for such a long time already, because it gave the opportunity to totally endulge in reading it right now. So cool, love your style. You seem like a person everybody would wanna be friends with and hang out 🙂
Sandra it’s very good blog. i like your shots and stories. i hope nyc will be a big success!
all the best to you and your crew!
I just discovered your blog and it is fabulous! I live in Guelph, ON and visited NYC for the first time last year. I cannot wait to go back. Your blog is just the thing I need to feed my love of the city until I can make it back.
Keep up the great work!
Just wanted to let you know I nominated you for an award. Have a great week!
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Hi there!
As you are one of the most influential mommy bloggers in NYC, I wanted to propose a blog write-up on the newest spectacle to debut at the Macy’s Parade this year – the first-ever Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade app for iPhone and Android.
Powered by NYC-based MyCityWay, spectators will have the Parade lineup, inflation information, route map, a participant tracker, the Line of March, a comprehensive guide to New York City and much more in the palm of their hands. Available to iPhone and Android users, the free Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® mobile app is also giving users a chance to win VIP tickets to watch the Parade from the best seats on the route.
Press release is below. App will be going live this Sunday. Interested in sharing with your fan base? We’re sure a large number will be attending the parade!
Best,
Elizabeth
Press Contacts:
Michelle Bower
Dittoe Public Relations
317.202.2280 x11
michelle@dittoepr.com
MyCityWay Powers First-Ever Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® Official Mobile App
Spectators at America’s favorite holiday tradition will have the Parade lineup, inflation information, route map, tourist destinations, a participant tracker, the Line of March, and much more in the palm of their hands
NEW YORK CITY – (November 21, 2011) – For the first time ever, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® is bringing more magic to spectators through a new mobile app available for both iOS and Android. Powered by MyCityWay, the Official Mobile App of the 85th Anniversary Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® will give spectators important Parade information plus a comprehensive guide to New York City all at their fingertips for free.
A longstanding American tradition now in its 85th year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® kicks-off the holiday season each year with its giant helium balloons, floats of fancy, marching bands, celebrities, performance groups and Santa Claus. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® mobile app will help spectators navigate these events by providing official Parade information, including the route map, Parade line-up, fun facts, photos, videos, and Parade events, along with various ways to explore the surrounding area for dining, restrooms, transportation, tourism destinations, Wifi hotspots and more. Even the guarded Line of March will be available to every spectator for the first time through the mobile app, giving them the ability to accurately predict when a Parade participant will cross their viewing spot.
“The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade provides an unforgettable experience for spectators young and old, and with this mobile app spectators won’t miss out on a single magical moment,” said Puneet Mehta, co-founder of MyCityWay. “By providing Parade patrons with up-to-date Parade information and useful tools for touring the city, this mobile app puts everything you need to have a spectacular start to the holiday season at your fingertips.”
Even more unprecedented is the inclusion of a special MyCityWay feature called Clingle that will allow spectators to track a variety of Parade participants in real-time, including 11 marching bands and the Spirit of America and Varsity Spirit Cheer performance groups. Within the official mobile app, spectators will have the option to download Clingle for iOS or Android to track participants and even enter for a chance to win VIP seating tickets through a fun scavenger hunt contest within Clingle. MyCityWay and Macy’s are taking the viewing experience to the next level by allowing a spectator from any part of the country to see when a Parade participant has crossed a destination on the Parade route, such as Columbus Circle, in real time and receive a notification with media attachments like photos and videos archived for friends to see and leave comments through Clingle.
Additional information on Parade events, including the always popular yearly balloon inflation event from 3-10 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, will also be available on the mobile app.
”Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been an event about surprise and spectacle, one that has captured the imagination of the public for 85 years,” said Amy Kule, executive producer of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “With this mobile app, we are putting fun and useful information in the hands of Macy’s Parade fans, bringing them closer to the magic.”
The 85th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® will step-off this year at 9 a.m., Nov. 24, at 77th Street and Central Park West in New York City.
Download MyCityWay’s official 85th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® mobile app for iOS or Android All of the features are also accessible at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® website. Tracking features are also available on Clingle’s website at http://www.clingle.com.
Be sure to follow MyCityWay on Twitter and tweet at them during the Parade using the hashtag #MacysParade. You can also friend MyCityWay on Facebook, subscribe to their Tumblr and check out the blog.
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About MyCityWay
Co-founded by Archana Patchirajan, Sonpreet Bhatia and Puneet Mehta in 2009, MyCityWay, develops international and U.S. location-based and social mobile apps. The company is based in New York City and launched its mobile applications platform in 2009. For more information, visit http://www.mycityway.com or http://clingle.com.
About Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
With more than 50 million viewers across the country and more than 3.5 million spectators that line up along the streets of New York City each year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a national icon that has grown into a world-famous holiday event. For more than 80 years, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has marked the official start of the holiday season. Growing in size and scale, the Parade proudly marches down a more than 2-mile route in New York City with more than 8,000 participants in tow including Macy’s employees, their families, celebrities, athletes, clowns and dance groups spreading holiday cheer. The Parade also features America’s best marching bands, fabulous floats and Macy’s signature giant helium character balloons. For more information on the Macy’s Parade please visit http://www.macys.com/parade or call the Parade hotline at (212) 494-4495.
Elizabeth Conner | Dittoe Public Relations
(o) 317.202.2280 x21
(c) 630.639.2013
Hi there,
May 23, 2012 marks the one-year anniversary of NYC Parks and Beaches going smoke-free. The NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City is thrilled that NY parents will be able to take their kids to the beach in a few weeks without having to worry about cigarette butts or secondhand smoke. We feel that children should get a lesson on how to enjoy the outdoors, play baseball, and swim, NOT on how to smoke cigarettes.
Would it be possible for you to publicly “endorse” in your blog our NYC smoke-free parks and beaches to celebrate the anniversary? We think New Yorkers need to hear that NY Moms appreciate the policy and look forward to a smoke-free summer. Even the state parks located in NYC recently went smoke-free. Perhaps a piece in your blog about the anniversary and why it’s important for our parks and beaches to be smoke-free for kids?
We’d welcome your support. Please let me know if you’d be open to publicly endorsing smoke-free parks and beaches on behalf of your organization, which is widely-known and respected among New Yorkers. You can also refer your readers to our website (www.NYCSmokeFree.org) and to LIKE us on Facebook (facebook.com/NYCSmokeFree) and follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/@NYCSmokeFree). Thank you for your consideration.
Best regards,
John Sirabella
NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City
646-619-6484
jsirabella@healthsolutions.org
Just stumbled on your site looking for information on the Roosevelt Island Tram. I’m from Nebraska and my mom and I have been to NYC 3 times in the last 5 years – twice within the last year and a half. From our first moment in the city we were hooked. We love it more than words can describe and long to be back……….luckily we wont have to wait but 2 more months until our next excursion. We can not wait!!!!!! We have literally thousands of photos from our trips and enjoy exploring the city as tourists and also researching where the residents of this amazing city go. We take it all in every waking second. I really enjoy your photos!!! You have a great eye and they are all gorgeous and make we want to be back in the city NOW!!!! =)
Tina, I am sooo happy to hear that you are reading my blog. I hope you continue to enjoy all of my crazy adventures. I really appreciate your comments. I too fell in love with NYC on many visits before we actually moved here. There really is something special about the island of Manhattan. I am glad that you will be back to visit soon!!
Need something new and exciting to blog about?
On behalf of Stu Schooley, owner and operator of Dutch Springs Aqua Park, I would like to invite you and your family to a special Mommy Blogger Day being held on August 9th at no cost to you!
Located in Bethlehem, PA Dutch Springs is one of the largest freshwater facilities in the country, offering a variety of activities for people of all different ages to enjoy. Come check out the many different activities in the Aqua Park for something new and exciting to blog about! You and your family are sure to have a blast!
Please RSVP to this email no later than July 31st. Each blogger is entitled to 4 free tickets.
We hope to see you there!
Yana Reinhard
Accelerate Business Resources
Hi Sandra,
I am working with a brand to build an engaging content community that covers topics relating to real experiences of living in New York.
We’ve taken a read through your blog and we think you’ve done a fantastic job covering topics that our brand\’s audience would also be interested in covering. It would be great if you could join our community to help educate, inform and converse with parents like you.
If you would like to learn more about this, please send an email to info@atomicreach.com
Thanks,
Breeann
Hi Sandra,
The West side YMCA is hosting a Benefit gala, and would love your support by writing a little post, or just spreading the word to help for the cause.
In this email is all the information for the event, and the tickets are purchased thru the website.
Spring is just around the corner and the West Side YMCA of Greater New York is excited to announce our new initiative, the Spring Arts Gala. On April 8th, 2013, the West Side YMCA will host a benefit gala fundraiser honoring NBC’s George to the Rescue host George Oliphant and Top Chef, Marcus Samuelsson at the beautiful David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. The event will feature a live musical performance from our Kids Company. Television and film actor, Richard Kind, will be the emcee for the festivities. We hope that you can join us at this spectacular event that will raise funds to provide free arts and theater programs and financial assistance for teens and children who benefit from our enriching programs.
Date: 04/08/2013
Time: 06:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium
Address:
61 West 62nd Street
New York City, NY 10023
Website / Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/springartsgala
Good afternoon, Sandra,
Your blog is a big part of every mom’s life here in NYC. Thank you for your insights and work.
The NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City has just produced a new short video, “Through Our Eyes: NYC Kids on Tobacco Marketing”:
Our video can help raise awareness about how tobacco marketing and product displays affect our youth. Mothers don’t always realize that whenever they walk into their local convenience store with their children, those children are being targeted by Big Tobacco. I can also send you an infographic we’ve developed on the effects of tobacco marketing on our youth.
Is there any way you could blog about how the tobacco industry is marketing to children? Would be great if you could showcase our video. We also have a some new web banners that can link to the video if you like. Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
John Sirabella
Communications Manager
NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City
646-619-64894
jsirabella@healthsolutions.org
Have you heard of Farm To People? We’re a new conscious online marketplace featuring a curated selection of small batch artisanal products, all of which must meet our 5 standards to ensure the highest quality. From pantry goods and cheeses to skin care, there’s something for everyone. Check us out at http://www.farmtopeople.com and Happy Holidays!
Dear Sandra,
I am contacting you on behalf of Reddera, Inc. We are a new beauty and wellness startup company based in New York that offers mobile beauty and wellness services from independent and talented licensed professionals. Through our app and website, customers can book services in hair, make-up, nails, hair removal, and massage directly to their homes, hotels or anywhere else. We are currently looking to share information about our upcoming launch on some of our favorite and popular blogs online and we think that your blog would be a great addition.
We love your blog and think this would be a great place to share what we are bringing into the beauty industry.
Best Regards,
Karen Sanchez
oh what a wonderful blog!
Hi!
My name is Rose and I am a part of a brand new fitness and dance studio on the upper east side of Manhattan, please check out our website: balletandbody.com! We offer fitness and ballet classes for adults, mommy & me, and children. We would like to invite you to try a free class (either ballet body fitness – a fitness class for non-dancers, the original barre class, adult dance classes including tango, ballet, and hiphop) a Mommy and me (2-3 year olds) or a combination of adult and children’s class if you would like to try more than one. All we ask is that if you happen to enjoy it to let your readers know!
I would be happy to speak with you further about class details or any other questions you may have 🙂 Hope to hear from you soon!
Rose
balletandbody@gmail.com.
Anyone know any 6 or 7 year old boys that resemble a young Neil Patrick Harris? They need to have a big personality. Email us at nphcasting@gmail.com if you have any suggestions. Please include a picture, age, and contact information. Kids that fit the criteria will be asked to come in and shoot the breeze with us on camera so we can get a sense of their personality. Breakdown below.
Should resemble a young Neil Patrick Harris in looks and in character. Not looking for a trained actor however they should be very comfortable in front of a camera and have a natural unaffected innocence and humor. Confident and charismatic this youngster will not shy away when faced with situations involving celebrities and musicians. Will need to take direction from a producer in the field as well as come up with own thoughts and ideas in an interview setting. Parents should also be aware that this opportunity would often require less than 48 hours of preparation before an interview/shoot.
Hi!
My name is Lena and I am founder of Lice Free Noggins, a lice treatment company based in Brooklyn. I am trying to reach out to NYC parents about my natural lice removal services. Head lice affects all of us and many parents go into panic mode not realizing there are natural, safe and efficient services available.
Visit http://www.licefreenoggins.com to learn more.
Hi Sandra,
I’m a software engineer who has recently quit to start a healthy food delivery service in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Fully cooked meals are designed and delivered to your door 2-3 times a week and the menu is tailored to your preferences. Here’s my website:
portiascloset.com/blog.
What do you think? Would you be willing to try it? I don’t have much money for ads at present but I could offer you a free week of the service.
Thanks,
Jenny.
Hey Sandra I Love your Blog it’s Awesome and Wonderful
from MAHDI
We would like to ask if you can write a blog about our Clearly Herbal Baby Wipes, which are probably the thickest one of the best wipes in the market. You may visit our website http://www.clearlyherbal.com to see our range. We would love to send you products so you at try and see for yourself the quality is the wipes.
We look forward to your response
Regards
Marcel King