http://tags.roxysbestof.com Roxy and a team of local bloggers share the best kid stuff, restaurants, food and wine, shopping, home and personal services, art, culture, and local community events... starting in New Jersey, expanded to San Francisco, Laguna Beach, Austin TX, Hartford CT and coming soon to a town near you! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:38:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the beginning of this year's "season" for Garden State Ballet and Randolph Gymnastics, London and Maddie discovered a new restaurant:  Mamma Caterina, 1250 Sussex Turnpike in Randolph, NJ.  Since the girls' ballet and modern dance classes run pretty late, we've found it very convenient to stop in to Mamma ... http://randolphnj.roxysbestof.com/2010/03/19/kid-stuff/hey-mamma-london-and-maddie-recommend-mamma-caterina-restaurant-in-randolph-nj/ Now that the weather has warmed up and the snow has melted, the Roxiticus Desperate Housewives are ready to get serious about summer camp 2010. As usual, I'll do my best to cover the camps my kids have tried, and the ones my friends recommend. Some of my favorites ... http://morriscountynj.roxysbestof.com/2010/03/07/kid-stuff/roxys-best-of-morris-county-nj-summer-camps-as-well-as-a-few-in-somerset-county-nj/ On and off for the past four years, London and Maddie have taken tennis lessons with Pavan Patel through Pavan's Tennis Academy at Fox Chase Tennis Club in Chester, NJ, and Pavan also runs an awesome summer tennis camp for kids of all ages (kindergarten through high school). Pavan Patel ... http://chesternj.roxysbestof.com/2010/03/07/kid-stuff/pavans-tennis-academy-is-moving-in-may-2010-to-flanders-valley-tennis-club-flanders-nj/ Now that the weather has warmed up and the snow has melted, the Roxiticus Desperate Housewives are ready to get serious about summer camp 2010.  As usual, I'll do my best to cover the camps my kids have tried, and the ones my friends recommend. Some of my favorites haven't posted ... http://newjersey.roxysbestof.com/2010/03/07/kid-stuff/roxys-best-of-summer-camp-2010/ Dear Roxy, Can you possibly put this in your Bernardsville area blogs? Come join more than 125 Somerset Hills School District students including a Bernards High School cast of 70, 15 technicians, 20 orchestra members, 5 cast members from Bernardsville Middle School, and a cameo chorus of 30 Bedwell Elementary students and ... http://bernardsvillenj.roxysbestof.com/2010/03/06/kid-stuff/from-roxys-mailbag-anything-goes-at-bernards-high-school-at-least-from-friday-march-19th-through-sunday-march-21st/ Roxy's loyal readers know that, over on my Roxiticus Desperate Housewives site, I've been posting about London and Maddie's new love of the snow... snowmen, snow angels, sledding, and my hope of finding them a simple kids snowboard to use to slide down the hill in our front yard in ... http://mendhamnj.roxysbestof.com/2010/02/27/shopping/london-and-maddies-first-snowboard-from-the-sports-section-in-mendham-nj/ The Tiger Leaders at Mendham Township Elementary School have organized their fellow students to "Read to Feed" to raise money for Heifer International.  Until March 17th, 2010, London will be reading as many pages as they can, and have raised $120 in pledges from our family sponsors... enough to buy ... http://mendhamnj.roxysbestof.com/2010/02/21/kid-stuff/london-and-maddie-read-to-feed-at-mendham-township-elementary-school/ There's another 4 to 7 inches of snow headed for the Roxiticus Valley tonight and tomorrow, so I've decided to warm things up by reviewing London and Maddie's summer camp options. While I will write about ballet, tennis, singing and acting camps in the coming weeks, today’s focus is gymnastics summer camp for kids ... http://randolphnj.roxysbestof.com/2010/02/15/kid-stuff/summer-camp-2010-at-randolph-gymnastics/ Maddie, our family weather girl, tells me that it is 14 degrees outside and feels like zero, so it is hard to believe spring will ever arrive... but I just read in our local paper that Mansions in May is coming to Harding Township, New Jersey, this year.  I'll post ... http://morriscountynj.roxysbestof.com/2010/01/30/events/mansions-in-may-comes-to-harding-township-nj-in-2010/ I don't know about you, but I feel like the last month or so of holidays was both relaxing and a blur... while we had plenty of family time, including Rex's terrific holiday meals, with London and Maddie's brothers, sister, niece, nephews and grandmothers, we got away from our usual ... http://randolphnj.roxysbestof.com/2010/01/16/kid-stuff/another-amazing-make-up-lesson-for-london-and-maddie-with-coach-jordan-at-randolph-gymnastics/