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This summer we wrote about some great day and weekend trips near New York City. From the farms of Westchester to the parks of Long Island and even places you can visit without a car. You can find more family friendly day and weekend trip ideas in our archives under the weekend trips category.

Here are our top 5 day and weekend trips posts from 2009:

Last January we wrote about lots of indoor fun spots. We've picked out our favorites from our 2008 indoor posts. We'll be writing about more cool indoor spots in the coming weeks. There are some newly opened ones and some we just never got to last year. So stay tuned, and check out our Indoor Activity Guide where we've got over 45 articles and counting, all about indoor fun in NYC.

Top 5 NYC Indoor Fun 2008:

Yesterday I posted my Top 5 New York Websites. Besides browsing hundreds of websites, I also have a very full in box and subscribe to dozens of email newsletters that keep me informed on events and activities going on in the New york City.

I skim the best kid event newsletters looking for unique tidbits, but many of the email newsletters I read the most are not kid-centric. I like to read adult event newsletters to find unusual activities that are good for the whole family in addition to the regular kid stuff to do.

Here are the top 5 daily and weekly New York email newsletters that I check in with the most:

New York City is always changing and there just seems to be more and more great things to do for kids and families every year. In 2008 we saw the opening and reopening of some terrific family museums and kid friendly eateries.

Here are our top NYC openings for kids and families in 2008:

People are always asking me how I ca n possibly stay up to date with so many different events that things to do in New York. The short answer is that I read A LOT. I have well over 200 websites in my RSS reader (if you don't know what an RSS reader is learn about it here. It's a great way to keep up to date on lots of sites without having to visit them all each day) and I like to skim through them all to find out about the little gems that I can share with you.

I thought for this end of year week it would be appropriate to share some of my top 5 lists for 2008, starting with the top 5 websites I enjoy reading to keep up to date with everything NYC.

This month we added our Mommy Poppins Slacker Camp Guide to our growing roster of guides including our Camp Guide and Preschool Guide. If you're still looking for a camp for this summer, check out the listing of camp openings and our listings of amazing art camps, which includes performing arts camps as well.

More Top Posts for May were:

Updated Listing of NYC Moms Groups

Luxury Dresses for Old Navy Prices on Etsy

Little Naturalists See Nature All Around

Top Resources for Family Travel

I want to thank everyone for participating in our Mother's Day Giveaway Week. It was really fun reading everyone's comments and giving away all those prizes. Today we're announcing the winner of our Mother and Child Portrait Session Giveaway and I wanted to share the posts that readers picked out as their favorites in the comments of our Spa Giveaway. In addition to some of our most popular posts and favorite weekly features like Linkin' Blogs and Free Fun Friday, a bunch of readers have really been paying attention and chosen some of the hidden gems of the site as their favorite posts. Take a look at what your fellow readers have been liking on the site:

Reader's Choice: Best Mommy Poppins Posts
Armchair Exploring: Cool sites to discover off-the-beaten-path New York
Mom??™s Groups Roundup
best candy stores in NYC (Actually two posts, Economy Candy and Sweet Life)
Green Sites for Families
It's time to give up the (water) bottle.
100 things to do with kid in NYC
Indoor Activities for NYC Kids
where to ski with kids in new york
summer camp overview
Great Places to Swim
99 Sensory Activities For Any Child

Thanks, everyone, for reading the site and sharing your favorite posts with us. We're glad you like it!

And now to announce our big winner:

NEWS FLASH: Tonight is 31 Cent Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins. From 5PM to 10PM stop by your neighborhood Baskin Robbins for some low-cost licks. While you're there you can donate to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

April featured a lot of great posts, especially our Green Month posts. We also added our preschool page, our community spotlight, and we've added a lot of new listings to our Camp Guide. April was great, but I'm even more excited about May. Watch out for a lot of great things in store including a WEEK of SUPER BIG GIVEAWAYS for Mother's Day! We're giving our readers the royal treatment. Plus we'll be launching our Neighborhood Guide and our Slacker Mom Camp Guide later in the month, two projects that have been in the works for months and I'm very excited to finally share.

After the top posts we'll announce the winners of our Great Green Giveaway.

99 Sensory Activities For Any Child
Great Green Giveaway Earth Day 2008
Mommy Poppins Do-It-Yourself Spring Break Eco Camp
Hi Lo: Anime Classes for Kids
More Free Storytimes and Arts and Craft Classes for NYC Kids

And now for the giveaway winners...

In March we've had a lot of very popular posts. While the 100 Things to Do with Your Kids in NYC is still the most popular post on the site for the third month in a row, the Camp Guide has been getting almost as many viewers. We added a couple more posts to the Camp Guide this month and will continue to add as we post related content.

I'm ignoring the fact that it's a leap year and posting the Top Posts for February today. If you haven't been following along the big news this month was the launching of the Mommy Poppins Summer Camp and Program Guide. It's a great resource with over a dozen posts to help you with your summer planning, with almost 30 camps covered in our posts and another 30 in our advertising listings. Check it out!