The Mint Chip Mama

Sweet Suite 2024! Sweet Suite is my favorite event of the year! Not only is it so much fun but it’s great to catch up with colleagues and friends. We saw new games, toys, characters and products. My favorite is always first - @nintendoamerica where I got to catch up friends while checking out new games! As an OG Super Mario fan I was excited to see their new throwback game. The 90s was in full force everywhere I looked (yay!). As always @basicfuntoys had an awesome retro set up with a vibe that carried throughout the show including Rainbow Bright, Strawberry Shortcake, SpongeBob, Ninja Turtles, the Energizer Bunny and more. I loved catching up with @magnatiles @thesandoichis @pokemon @magmoji @snapcircuits @myboogieboard @smartgamesusa @tls_toy @pmi_toys @pennycake @energizer @stickirolls @spongebob too! In my opinion the winner of the show is from @gameofkittens - Let’s Hit Each Other With Fake Swords. It’s the perfect game for siblings. Ha! Add it to your holiday list. Thank you @thetoyinsider and @funfluential for having me! 📍Want to hear about more top secret toy launches? Follow @themintchipmama 🎮🧩🚂 . . . . #SweetSuite24 #WeKnowPlay #Toys #NewYork #PressEvent #InfluencerLife #Nintendo #Crayola #NinjaTurtles #Pokemon #PokemonCards #MomBlogger #SpinMaster #Needoh #ServingUpSummerFun #Summer2024 #ExplodingKittens #MagnaTiles #Sandoichis #MAGmoji #BasicFunToys #FunFluential #ToyInsider #SnapCircuits #BoogieBoard #SmartGamesUSA #Pennycake #Energizer #StickiRolls #SpongeBob

It's Prime Day! All the fun of Rubik reimagined into a compact problem-solving brain teaser puzzle game! Click the link here (https://lnks.co/SWIGPrimeDayGridlock) and shop the Gridlock! Speaking as an only child, this one player game has got it all! It’s a new twist (pun intended) on the classic Rubik's Cube. Rubik’s Cube Gridlock game is filled with all of the nostalgic flexible thinking challenges with only one solution possible. Sound familiar? Well grab one for Prime Day and try it out yourself! The game comes in a self contained multi-compartment travel case with 88 game cards on one side and 11 blocks on the other. My kids especially liked the illusionist vibe, hidden chamber, and moveable lock. Your mission is to place the white pieces where the card dictates and then fit all the other pieces around it completing the game. This is the perfect (read: small, compact, and a crowd pleaser for the entire family) addition to your summer vacation occupation station. Plus, it’s only the first super fun Rubik's game we’ll be highlighting this year to help celebrate their 50th anniversary! Spin Master Global’s Rubik Gridlock is suggested for kids 7+ and can be found on Amazon. #RubiksMakeYourMove #RubiksCube50 #RubiksCube https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9jFRVKMgRA/

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Big things are happening at Roosevelt Field! As the school year winds down and the summer heats up what better way to celebrate then kicking it off with a new summer wardrobe! We love going to Roosevelt Field for the shops we can’t find anywhere else local. My teenage daughter loves Garage and Brandy Melville (located inside Pac Sun). Plus I love Primark and their fast fashion, reasonable prices, and huge selection. But I think the biggest news of the summer is Goat USA moved to a new, permanent, expanded location! This big new store is filled with their Long Island native famous wear including t-shirts, shorts, and sweatshirts but also water bottles, and great Goat gear finds. Every time I go to the mall I love seeing all the 90s styles circle around for today’s teens. In fact I’m pretty sure my daughter bought a dupe of the shirt I bought at Aeropostale many years ago! The other thing I love about this beautiful spacious multi floor shopping mecca is the food. You can grab the simplest pretzel or sit for the fanciest toro tuna, rounding out your shopping spree with a full happy belly. Plus much like my belly, their food selections are always growing! Check out the newly added Wahlburgers, Van Leeuwen, and Venchi. If you havent been to Roosevelt Field lately go take a look! From luxury high end retail to fun kiosks, they have something there for everyone. #RooseveltField #ShopRooseveltField #RooseveltFieldMall #SummerSales #Summer #Fashion #Shopping #Garage #Aeropostale #Primark #Herschel #GoatUSA #BrandyMelville #NewYork #GardenCity #GardenCityMoms #Westbury #WestburyMoms #SyossetMoms #RoslynMoms #PlainviewMoms #PortWashington #PortWashingtonMoms #MomLife #LongIslandLife #LongIslandEvents #LongIslandLiving #LongIslandBlogger #LongIslandStrong #LongIsland https://www.instagram.com/p/C9UvBXTu4FJ/

MoMath: the National Museum of Mathematics, the premiere math museum in North America, is hosting the 8th Annual Free Outdoor New York City Math Festival at 28 Liberty’s Fosun Plaza today from 10 a.m. until 4pm! “Speedcubers” demonstrate how to solve Rubik’s Cube patterns and designs at record speeds. There will also be mimes, jugglers, “Bubbleologists", robots, puzzles, life-sized art, and more. To learn more visit:

The final chapter of our Iceland guide - The Golden Circle! Featuring The Lava Tunnel, Friðheimar, Vínstofa Friðheima, Blue View Cabins, Gullfoss, and more!

Calling all tennis fans! https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/about_wimbledon/the_hill_in_new_york.html

Food Truck Wednesdays! Good Shepherd Plainview is hoping to foster community engagement at this fun, interfaith event. They’ll have 10 Food Trucks, 3 live student bands, games and free giveaways for the kids! Wednesday, July 3rd from 5 to 9 pm at 99 Central Park Rd, Plainview. Free Admission. https://www.instagram.com/gsplainview

I hope you like, laugh, and can relate to my newest article - my 1st for Flow Space - about the joy of female middle age here: https://www.theflowspace.com/interpersonal-health/self/chin-hairs-perimenopause-2948066/ I try to bring humor to my LONG battle against hair removal which I thought I won in the early aughts. But surprise! Much like bootcut jeans - my chin hair is back. My favorite line of the whole article: “Shortly after we all chanted “Donna Martin graduates,” laser hair removal became commercially available.“ If this resonates with you, you’ll like the article (also 90210 4evaaaa). Special shout out to Somich Skin Spa my partner in (hair removal) crime during this recent war. I believe we can do this together. Just you & me Michelle! Are you also in your mid 40s talking to your kids about puberty and wondering if you’re going through it again yourself? Oh perimenopause, you’re such a saucy biotch. 📍If you secretly pluck too, follow @themintchipmama on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/themintchipmama 🪷🪷🪷 #Hormones #HormoneBalance #HormoneImbalance #ChinHair #ChinHairRemoval #HairRemoval #Funny #Relatable #RelatablePost #FlowSpace #ThisIsFlowSpace #FindingFlow #AuntFlow #TheFlowReadingSpace #WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #ItsNotHysteria #KarenTang #SheMedia #SheKnows #Wellbeing #SelfCare #YouCannotBuySelfCare #WomenEmpowerment #Period #40s #50s #ShareYourStory #NewYork

As part of the first ever "Beatles on the Balcony" Free Concert, The Liverpool Shuffle will perform LIVE music in the first ever free outside concert off the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame’s terrace in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on June 30th from 3-4pm. The event is free to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs. The concert will be preceded by the formal awarding ceremony of (10) $1000 scholarships to ten graduating students from across Long Island. There will also be one Pat DeRosa Memorial Scholarship awarded as well. This is the first year that LIMEHOF has expanded its scholarships to include not only music but also the performing arts. For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org/museum/ THE LIVERPOOL SHUFFLE Originally formed in 2003 by Joe Refano, (formerly of Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz’ Monkees Band), THE LIVERPOOL SHUFFLE brings together veterans of the New York Music Scene with a combined 200 years of musical experience between them. They are all avowed BEATLEMANIACS and it shows! THE LIVERPOOL SHUFFLE provides a fun, entertaining LIVE BEATLE SHOW with a real emphasis on THE MUSIC. They play it the way The Beatles did!

Wishing my beautiful, sweet, kind, funny, smart daughter the biggest congratulations on her 8th grade graduation. You used to be small. Now you’re big. I don’t understand time. But I love you more than you will ever understand. Even if you’re taller than me. Which is often. You will ALWAYS be my partner in crime. Even when you’re mean to me. Which is also often. Because you’re 14. We could not be more proud of you. I love you to Sephora and back. 📍If you’re also excited that she finally let me post a picture of her of social media (!) follow @themintchipmama 🎓👩‍🎓🎓 #8thGrade #8thGradeGraduation #MiddleSchool #MiddleSchoolGraduation #MovingUp #MovingUpCeremony #MovingUpInTheWorld #MyBaby #MyBabyGirl #Congratulations #CongratsGrad #ByeByeMiddleSchool #NewYork #LongIsland #GirlMom #ProudGirlMom #ShesTallerThanMe #HappyGraduation #HappyGraduationDay #SeeYaMiddleSchool #WhiteDresses #LifeMoments #MomLife #MiddleSchoolLife #June2024 #GraduationPhoto #GraduationPhotoShoot #HappyDay #GratefulLife #HappyToBeTogether