Announcing the Mommy Poppins Back to School Guide

8/21/08 - By Anna Fader

BTS.gifMy friend Mady was telling me last week at the beach about another mom at our school who would go home from her summer place two weeks early and spend the entire time just cooking and freezing dinners for the year. Wow.

I'm not a big cook ahead type of person. I've never even liked the idea of doing the prepare all the meals on Sunday thing, but I love the idea of being that organized (and fetishistic) about planning ahead for the school year. And I guess that's kind of the thought behind our Back to School Guide.

One of my favorite things to obsess about just before school starts is which classes and afterschool programs will my kids take this year. The Back to School Guide has about 50 different programs listed and I'll be adding lots more as I continue to seek out and obsess over all the options and cool offerings for NYC kids this Fall.

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back to school shopping and my other Fall Fetish: tips for organizing easy healthy meals, snacks and school lunches.

A big thank you to all of our terrific sponsors who made this guide and the whole site possible. All of our sponsors are local businesses that provide terrific programs for kids in New York. Fran and Shea did a great job finding terrific sponsors and I'm sure some of you will spend more time reading the ads than the content because there's a lot of great stuff in there.

While I'm thanking people, thanks to all of you who have already contributed to help buy school supplies for the homeless children of Seneca Houses. They already received the first orders and are so thrilled and grateful. Read more about this program here, or if you want to jump right to contributing, click the button over there on the left sidebar.

Still reading this? Go to the Back to School Guide now.