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Team Reintroductions: Fall Edition - Ashley Your role with Red Stick Mom: Co-Owner About Ashley: Ashley is the Co-Owner of New Orleans Mom, Red Stick Mom and Lafayette Mom, now the largest network of parenting websites in South Louisiana. Proud graduates of the University of Virginia, she and her husband Blaise spent time in Tampa and Scottsdale prior to settling down back home in New Orleans, something they both said "would never happen." An avid runner, she'll try any workout at least once and is always up for sweating with friends. Now that her kids are older and all - by choice - in competitive sports, she's using her business degree to run NASA level logistics for the puzzle that is carpool. After...

Set out those pumpkins - fun fall and Halloween activities are in full swing! Check out our favorite family-friendly October events in and around Baton Rouge this month here in the guide sponsored by Children’s Hospital. Red Stick Mom maintains a full calendar of events here. If you have a great family-friendly Baton Rouge event to add, please do that here. Don't miss - Fall in Love with Baton Rouge :: 75+ Ideas and Activities for Baton Rouge Family Fun this Fall Also check out - Halloween Costume Ideas: Heroes of the Pandemic Red Stick Moms Need to Know :: Baton Rouge Activities in October 2021 The East Baton Rouge Parish Library has Grab and Geaux Crafts available all month long! Check for dates at each location.

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Party Time.  Halloween Costume Ideas: Heroes of the Pandemic Halloween 2021 is just around the corner! Personally I love any excuse to dress my kiddos in cute costumes and the fact that we can then secretly siphon away the candy they collect and eat it late at night makes Halloween an extra delightful holiday. We typically spend Halloween with some of our best friends who live in a fun, community driven neighborhood that has mostly silly and very little spooky going on. I’m sure we all thought Covid would be long gone by now, but this seemingly endless Pandemic is dragging on. But here’s an idea, lets turn this awful thing on it’s head just...

So I am fully aware that Halloween is October 31st, but I think about Halloween costumes pretty much year round. I love planning what we’ll dress up as especially since having kids. I’ve come to love homemade costumes too. Store-bought costumes are great, but you have so many options when it comes to homemade. I get most of the pieces from Amazon or from things we already have around the house. You can spend a little or a lot and come up with something truly amazing. Since my oldest was born, we’ve managed to make all but one of his Halloween costumes plays on his name, Graham. For his first Halloween, he was a superhero named “Insta-Graham.” He and his...

Different scenarios for many people have me feeling not so alone. Sometimes many of us have different father & mother figures. I was/am lucky enough to have my dad and his dad, my Papa Bud. I will not lie. It hurts and still does that my papa is not here to be at every holiday, every birthday party, every birth of my children, every graduation, and beyond. My Papa Bud could talk to anyone about anything, and he could talk for hours. My dad does the same. That is where I get my personality from. In January of 2016, I got the phone call that Papa had passed away. We knew he was not doing well for about two years prior, even...