Get out your family calendar: This week has been about planning ahead across all of our sites. Our carefully curated March Go Lists are up for NYC, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and beyond so you can find out the absolute best things to do with kids throughout the month.

If you're looking ahead to summer, we continued our overhaul of our Camp Guide by updating our free and cheap camps post, and highlighting all of the improvements to our Camp Directory, including the ability to leave reviews and ratings for the programs you love.

And if spring break is on your mind (it's coming up this month for private school students and in April for public school kids), you can find destination inspiration on our Travel site, in our NYC Family Getaways Guide and on all of our regional sites. Connecticut just wrote a post about the awesome Catamount Aerial Adventure Park and Rockwell Museum in Great Barrington, MA, Westchester has a list of the best things to do with kids in Mount Kisco and New Jersey has a wonderful series on great small towns worth discovering.

Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:

Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead this weekend. Daylight Savings begins on Sunday and that means "longer days" to get out and enjoy all the festivities Westchester has to offer. This weekend also kicks off the St. Patrick’s Day Parade season. Enjoy parades in White Plains and Mount Kisco plus the Northern Westchester Putnam Parade in Mahopac.

It’s also sugaring season, when the warming daytime temperatures stimulate the sap to flow and there are several sugaring events to choose from this weekend. Head to Sugarfest at Westmoreland Sanctuary where you can enjoy the Nannyhagen Creek Band during a pancake breakfast. Or stop by for an informal sugarhouse chat at the Trailside Nature Museum. Muscoot Farm is also joining in on the sugaring fun, Teatown’s naturalists share facts and folklore about this sweet time of year and the Greenburgh Nature Center hosts a Maple Sugaring Party.

This weekend is also the grand opening of the Hudson River Museum’s new state of the art, digital Planetarium. Read on for our top weekend picks. If you see something that piques your interest, click through to the event listing to view full details. Looking for more options? Be sure to check our Event Calendar for more fun happening this weekend and beyond. Also be sure to sign up for our FREE newsletter to get the latest on news and events in Westchester delivered right to your inbox.

There’s plenty going on this weekend, from free movies at the Museum of Science and maple sugaring tours in Milton and Natick to the opening of Brundibar and But the Giraffe! in Cambridge and Honk! in Concord. Ben Rudnick performs in Boston, Margot Fox in Arlington, and Elska in Brookline. Read on for more of our weekend picks, and visit our Events Calendar for a complete list.

Finally, just a reminder to set your clocks ahead on Sunday. Enjoy the weekend.

Is there anything better than getting up early in the morning? How about getting up an hour earlier than early because someone had the bright idea of springing the clocks forward? Still with me? How about getting up an hour earlier than early to run, a lot, like a lot a lot, a whole marathon worth? Have I lost you entirely? Here I am to reel you back in: free doughnut, nom nom. Makes the waking up almost seem worth it,  and you don’t even have to break a sweat.

But if you want to (break a sweat that is), have we got the dance floor for you. Baby Loves Disco is back in town, this time with a Mommy Poppins discount and a 70s disco theme. "Ah,ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive..."   And speaking of Vinnie Barbarino...

...Adele Dazeem is not performing in LA this weekend, but she's about the only big name star who isn't. We've got Laurie Berkner (love her on Sprout!); we've got Tom Chapin (Grammy winner and also Harry's brother).  We've got Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band (Latin Grammy winners! They're going to be on TV this Fall!). We have productions of White (Winner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Cirque du Soleil: Totem (catch it before it's gone!), and we've even got Sid the Science Kid. (Or as Vinnie would say, Snurf the Sneetch Keister. But what do we know, we're just Mimsy Picklecatcher).

Keep reading for some of our favorite picks for the weekend...

This bitterly cold winter has left many parents looking for ways to entertain their stir-crazy kids. On days when heading to the local park isn't an option, indoor play spaces can be a parents best friend.  If your little monkeys are bouncing off of the walls, some of the indoor  entertainment options listed below might just give you a few hours to catch your breath.  For even more ideas, visit our Indoor Play and Rainy Day Activity Guide.

This weekend planner has something for everyone. Have your kids start the weekend off relaxed and refreshed with a Friday afternoon yoga class, followed by some star gazing. Then take part in a fun scavenger hunt in Yaphank or learn about slithering salamanders on the South Fork. Reconvene with some family time on Sunday at the Nassau County Museum of Art.

Here's a guide for this weekend's happenings across Long Island. Don't see your event listed here? Add it to our events calendar. And if you don't already receive this post in your inbox subscribe to our newsletter.

Put on your party hats, costumes and masks: multicultural Purim, Carnival and St. Patrick's Day celebrations abound this weekend. Highlights include the Museum of Jewish Heritage's Macaroons concert for Purim, the activity-packed St. Patrick's Day open house at the Irish Arts Center and a Carnival-themed fete at the recently renovated Queens Museum.

One of our top March picks, the New York International Children's Film Festival, begins this weekend with a wide range of family screenings at six Manhattan theaters. Also kicking off this weekend: the lottery for the NYC Parks Department's super-inexpensive summer camp ($500 total for seven weeks). We've got the scoop on how to vie for a spot in our just-updated free and cheap camps post, and you can learn about lots of other summer programs in our new and improved Camp Guide.

These are just a few of the great things going on this weekend. All of our best bets are below. You can find additional options in our Event Calendar. Before heading out on your adventures, be sure to download our FREE Mommy Poppins Kids on the Go app so you can find the best family destinations wherever you happen to be in NYC.