Our New Travel Site, Giveaways, Birthday Party Deals, Little Leagues, Macy's Flower Show

3/29/12 - By Anna Fader

As you know, Mommy Poppins has been sharing our expertise on the best things to do in the New York City area since January of 2007. We currently have destination sites for NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston and Los Angeles. Now we're taking Mommy Poppins global with family vacation information from wherever our own travels take us.

On Mommy Poppins Travel, our mission is to help you discover exceptional experiences and magical vacation memories with a mix of bucket lists, slideshows, reviews and articles about the best places to travel with kids in the US, the Caribbean and Europe (for now). Plus weekly roundups of top travel deals.

Find our family travel site by clicking the TRAVEL link at the top of any Mommy Poppins page or go directly to travel.mommypoppins.com to see what we wrote about this first week. As with everything, the site is a work in progress. We're adding lots of new content every week so sign up for our weekly free Travel newsletters so you don't miss a thing. And I'd love it if you'd take our quick reader survey and tell us what you hope to see on the site.

Oh, and if you're wondering what will happen to our old Travel Guide, it will live on the NYC site as a NYC Day Trips and Weekend Getaways Guide.

Here's what else we shared this week (I'll give a hint, lots of deals, a huge giveaway and more awesome fun stuff to do).

OUR LATEST VIDEOS

This week's most popular post was a slideshow of the Macy's Flower Show.

Our list of neighborhood LIttle Leagues in NYC was also a home run.

We updated our Kids' Birthday Party Guide and celebrated with some huge deals on great birthday parties and custom made cakes.

We finished up our month-long focus on Harlem with a roundup of affordable kids classes.

Jeff shared the top news stories, including the reopening of carousels, the High Line expansion and family fun at the Tribeca Film Festival.

TADA! Youth Theater is offering an enormous giveaway with prizes totaling over $500.

Our newest writer, Sarah Gonser, clued us in to an exhibit at MoMA PS1 that kids will flip for (literally).

And, of course, we rounded up all the best things to do with kids this weekend. Easter Egg Hunts, Dan Zanes, Gustafer Yellowgold, Pasta! A Pop Ups Musical, a scavenger hunt, a farmyard race, a Bike Rodeo, Qing Ming Festival and more, more, more. See the full weekend events list or go straight to our event calendar to see all events.

Older kids will want to know about the best laser tag and paint ball places in NJ, since we don't have that in NYC.

If you're looking forward to spring break, it's not too late to sign up for Spring Break Camps. Or find out all there is to do during a spring vacation on Fire Island, Shelter Island or the Hamptons.

Our email subscribers got an exclusive deal to save 20% for last minute spring break stays at Crystal Springs Resort in New Jersey. Click through and you can also enter to win a family getaway.

Over on Facebook, we switched to the new page format and we've invited our friends to send us pictures of their kids if you'd like to see them as our cover model for a week. Just send your photo to cover@mommypoppins.com.