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Brian T. Marquis
Chocolate chip cookie & margarita connoisseur for #LiliesandLoafers. Photography, photo editing, and food styling.
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Bacon, Hash Brown, Egg and Cheese Wrap
I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering my daylight savings. Before kids, my days would start anywhere between eight and ten in the morning. Now, our days start anywhere between five and seven in the morning. When we’re up that early in the winter, it’s total darkness. This hour of light in the morning is so welcome, but why do I feel more tired?! Along with my caffeine, waking up with a…
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Whipped Pineapple Margarita
I love that National Margarita Day is celebrated annually on the twenty-second of February. For the northern hemisphere, literally the weirdest time of the year, especially for a frozen margarita. But, here we are in February, perfectly timed with the remaining stragglers giving up on dry January. We’re celebrating with a Whipped Pineapple Margarita.
This margarita is inspired by our trip to…
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Blair's Second Birthday: Disney Pixar Cars
Our youngest is now two years old and we are still recovering. We asked Blair how he wanted to celebrate his birthday, and he replied, “cars.” And that’s how we ended up with a 2 Fast 2 Furious Pixar Cars theme.
Blair loves cars. Hot Wheels, Jeeps, Hess trucks, pretty much any vehicle. But above all else, he loves Pixar’s Cars. He loves the movies, he loves the merch, he loves the toy cars. He…
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Starbucks Medicine Ball Tea
January is Hot Tea Month! What a fitting time of year to celebrate a mug of coziness. I have a favorite tea for you. Otherwise known as Honey Citrus Mint Tea on the menu, Starbucks’ Medicine Ball Tea will warm you from the inside out. Throat feeling a little soar? Not feeling your best self? You can also make this legendary tea at home!
My mom filled our Christmas stockings with gift bags of…
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French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup for this cozy snow day.
In November, we were craving a soup. Fatima wanted French onion soup. I’m not sure why that soup, but it sounded cozy and a perfect dinner during a bout of cold weather.
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2023 Round Up: Best of the Blog
Happy New Year! 2023 was filled with so many family adventures, milestones, and delicious food. 2024 will have a lot more of that, and we are looking forward to celebrating everything, including our youngest’s second birthday (his first). But first, here’s a round up of our top posts and videos in 2023.
2023 Round Up: Best of the Blog
Favorite Glow Up Post
We like to go back to our old posts and…
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Liam's Christmas Train Time
We’re celebrating trains for the holidays! We’re giving you the gift of new videos on Liam’s Christmas Train Time. Check out our holiday playlist and our channel for more.
From now until the New Year, we’re dropping new videos almost every day, including a few LIVE track builds! We’ve set all of our uploads to premieres, so you’ll know just when to tune in.
DECEMBER 26th – Liam and Brian…
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Christmas Crafts for Kids
It’s tiiiiiimmmeee! We are well into the Christmas season and I am here for all the holiday vibes. Like the elves in Santa’s workshop, we’re hard at work on Christmas crafts.
When the weather outside gets frightful, stay inside and craft! These crafts are perfect for the whole family, even your younger kids. They can work on motor skills, exercise their creativity, and bring joy to others as…
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New York Style Crumb Cake
Crumb cake, coffee cake; what’s the difference? The crumbs. A thicker layer of crumbs is a crumb cake. So what’s a New York style crumb cake? It has even bigger crumbs.
There’s a bagel shop in our town that sells crumb cake. It’s one of the best crumb cakes I’ve ever had. A thick layer of crumb sits on top of a moist sponge. It’s just perfect. I’ve been trying to find a recipe to make something…
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December First Box
A December First is akin to an Easter or Boo basket. It’s another take on a Christmas Eve box. It’s a box of fun gifts for someone to enjoy ahead of Christmas. In our house, we love to do December First boxes to kick off the season.
A December First box is exactly what it sounds like. One would receive this box of goodies on…December First! It’s like an advent calendar, but given upfront. A…
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Liam's Subway Themed Birthday
We have a five year old. When Liam was born, I couldn’t imagine him at a year old, let alone five years old. It’s bonkers, but here we are. When talking to Liam about what he wanted to do for his birthday, the first thing that came to mind was the subway: he wanted a subway themed birthday.
So how do we pull this off? He also wanted to go to the Bronx Zoo. Totally on theme because the Bronx has…
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Autumn Margarita
Today I was in the mood for a margarita, but with an autumn twist. Something spiced and refreshing. There was a sangria we made a few years ago that I loved. It had apples, pears, and cinnamon. I wanted everything in that, but in a margarita. I ran to the grocery store, picked up some apple cider and pear juice, returned home, and shook up an autumn margarita.
Like the majority of my shaken…
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Autumn Handprint Craft Two Ways! (aka handprint turkey)
What do I love more than a quick craft? A craft that uses all the same supplies I already have. And these next two crafts use the same exact supplies, but we reimagined our process to create two beautiful works of art. First, the handprint turkey.
We have a lot of family, and this year, I am feeling more crafty. You get a handmade Halloween card, and you get a handmade autumn craft, and you get…
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Super Mario Costumes: Halloween 2023
Another Halloween is upon us! When brainstorming for our Halloween costumes this year, Fatima and I looked to our kids. What did they do this year, what did they watch, what were they obsessed with? We had short list: Cars, Paw Patrol, Super Mario. Spoiler alert, we went with Super Mario costumes.
Cars was easy to remove from the list. Too involved. We seriously considered Paw Patrol. We looked…
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DIY Paper Plate Spiders
Oh so spooky! I had two predictions for the Halloween and Christmas seasons: 1. Bats and Spiders would be trendy for Halloween and 2. Gingerbread would be trendy for Christmas. I see bat and spider decorations and pajamas everywhere! Even Dunkin Donuts made a blowup of their spider donut. Let’s see where Christmas takes us. I already see Pottery Barn’s collection filled with all things…
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Frankenstein Handprints Halloween Cards
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DIY Puffy Ghosts and Puffy Bats
We’ve done a lot of crafting this season, and here’s another one for you to do with the kids in your life. Liam and I had a ton of fun making these puffy ghosts and puffy bats.
We used a lot of craft supplies we already had in stock. There were a ton of cotton balls and black pompoms left over from our summer of crafts.
Making the Puffy Ghosts and Puffy Bats
These are really simple to make and…
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