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Friday Favorites:  Grocery-Delivery and Curbside-Pickup Winners!

Friday Favorites: Grocery-Delivery and Curbside-Pickup Winners!

Welcome to this special edition of Friday Favorites:  Grocery Winners Edition! If you’ve been following the posts all week, you are ready to hear all about the winners from the Grocery-Delivery and Grocery Curbside Pickup services.  If not, well, you should go back and read…

Grocery Curbside Pickup Review – Day 4 – H-E-B & Walmart

Grocery Curbside Pickup Review – Day 4 – H-E-B & Walmart

  We’re back with Day 4 of the 5-Day Series on Grocery Delivery Services and Curbside Pickup Reviews.  Today’s post is a slight departure from the previous 3 days since we’re only focusing on curbside pickup services.   And, as a recap, the 5-day series…

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 3 – Amazon Prime Now & Randall’s

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 3 – Amazon Prime Now & Randall’s

It’s Day 3 of the Four Points Mom Grocery-Delivery Services Review! As a quick refresher, I’m spending the week on a 5-day series walking through the available grocery-delivery and curbside pickup services here in Austin: Day 1:  Introduction to Series and Instacart Review Day 2:…

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 2 Looking at Shipt & Burpy

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 2 Looking at Shipt & Burpy

  Welcome back to Day 2 of the Four Points Mom Grocery-Delivery Services Review! As a quick refresher, I’m spending the week on a 5-day series walking through the available grocery-delivery and curbside pickup services here in Austin: Day 1:  Introduction to Series and Instacart…

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 1 Looking at Instacart

Grocery-Delivery Services Review – Day 1 Looking at Instacart

  Grocery-delivery services and curbside pick-up services are all the rage right now for many demographics, and especially for us moms.  Whether you’re out of milk and can’t leave the house while your toddler is potty-training or you don’t have the patience to take all…

Dining À La Playground at Rudy’s BBQ

Dining À La Playground at Rudy’s BBQ

  Hello everyone!  I’m back with a “Dining À La Playground” post.  If you’ve missed my previous ones, be sure to check out my reviews of Flores Mexican Restaurant, Ski Shores Cafe, and Central Market.  We all LOVE getting to leave the house and visit…

Getting Snowed In at Sweet Caroline’s Snow Shack

Getting Snowed In at Sweet Caroline’s Snow Shack

  I don’t know about you, but something about the heat of July makes me think that treating my children (and myself) to cold treats on a regular basis is almost necessary and not at all unusual.  I even compiled a list of favorite Dessert…

Out of Bounds at J.W. Marriott Hill Country Resort

Out of Bounds at J.W. Marriott Hill Country Resort

  Last week, we last-minute booked a one-night stay at the J.W. Marriott Hill Country Resort. We had a gift card to hotels.com (thanks Mom 🙂 ) that helped us spring for the somewhat-of-a-staycation.  Although the party ended a little earlier than expected (keep reading…

7 Reasons To Check Out Lakeline Mall

7 Reasons To Check Out Lakeline Mall

  When I was an undergrad at UT, I worked at the Abercrombie & Fitch in Barton Creek mall for pennies so that I could get a fantastic deal on overpriced ripped t-shirts and sneak a peak at the risqué catalogue that showed more skin…

Breakfast, Books, and Toys at Steiner Ranch’s Cups and Cones

Breakfast, Books, and Toys at Steiner Ranch’s Cups and Cones

  A few mornings ago, I had the pleasure of being woken up at an ungodly hour by the cutest white-headed toddler stomping like a two-hundred pound man into our bedroom.  Parker’s going through a phase (yes, I’m still holding out that this is a phase…

Dining À La Playground at Ski Shores Cafe

Dining À La Playground at Ski Shores Cafe

  Ski Shores Cafe is one of our top last-minute dinner choices when the weather’s nice and I don’t feel like cooking (or, let’s be honest, reheating leftovers or throwing nuggets in the oven).       If you can find it after winding all the…