Victoria Dwek
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Need Staycation Ideas for Winter Break? We’ve Got a Few
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Yes! Days and nights at home can be fun too. Plan it well and make it a weekend to remember with these ideas. You might not be planning to leave your hometown and you perhaps have a couple of day trips planned. But you still want to fill the rest of the extended weekend with
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How Do You Make Your Cholent?
Want to change it up? We peeked into each other’s slow cookers for ideas. I always thought that cholent was the kind of thing you don’t touch. And if I ever wanted to experiment and make another cholent, I’d have to make two cholents, just in case the new one didn’t work out. My cholent
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The Easiest Way Ever to Get Those Stickers Off Before Toiveling
I have been spraying with Goo Gone all my life. This way of removing stickers is so much quicker, easier, and neater! For both of my sons’ bar mitzvahs, I bought real stemware to use on the tables. The dollar store really has nice options that look beautiful (no one would guess!). They add a
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How I Turned BCP’s Life Pages into a Planner I Love
Do you love our Life Pages? Want to keep them neat and organized? Bind them into a planner and never forget a “to-do.” Before our Life Pages download was so beautifully designed by our own Shaindy Menzer, I had always used a spreadsheet version to map out my weeks. I’d print them out and have
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Shipt? Instacart? We Love Them Both. Here’s a Rundown of These Delivery Services
Winter is here and we really don’t want to go out on random errands. The good news is that almost everything can be delivered nowadays. I’ve been using the Instacart service at BJs for a few years now, because, as you all know, a visit to BJs or Costco can entail a lot of hours,
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The Real Secret for Getting Those Hair Accessories Organized
No matter how organized they got, the bows and headbands would always get messy again. Until I discovered this one super simple tip. It’s so simple, it may seem completely obvious, although it wasn’t to me until recently. And it changed everything. In past years on BCP, I had written a couple of hair organizing
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You Can Make Your Favorite Bakery-Style Crumb Muffins At Home
It’s an exciting morning when these crumb muffins are coming out of the oven. There’s one grocery store in Lakewood that sells the best muffins in their bakery department (and no, not all muffins are created equal). My kids always ask me to bring some home when I’m in that area. The older boys who
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More Party Activities! Make a Paint Pottery Studio At Home
Does your family love pottery painting? It makes a great party activity too! My kids absolutely love a visit to the painting pottery studio (something that is usually saved for Chol Hamoed). They really take it seriously and quietly paint for–get this–at least 3 hours! They’re very perfectionistic about it and it’s literally probably the
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Warm Mushrooms with Cheese Salad
If I knew this restaurant salad was so easy to recreate, I wouldn’t have waited so long to enjoy it again! Years ago, I ordered a salad at one Miami restaurant. This is what I remember: it had these hot, oozing cheese-stuffed mushrooms that were so good; every bite was delicious. But there were a
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That Famous Coconut Crunch Cake Just Got Way Better
An incredible, moist, coconut-y cake is paired with the famous coconut crunch topping. The only question is…why did it take so long for this match to come about? One Friday night in the summer of 2005, I walked with my husband and in-laws to visit a neighbor. There were a lot of people there and
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