Saturday, August 16 Playhouse Family Music Festival!
10 am-5 pm, at the Historic Cove Creek School, Sugar Grove, North Carolina. (7 miles west of Boone, NC).
You can buy tickets online at www.goplayhouse.org. Tickets are also on sale at The Children’s Playhouse, Mast General Store, Earth Fare (after August 1st), and Green Mother Goods.
Adult Tickets [...]

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Got a crafty kid? Or a budding entrepreneur who’d like to branch out from the ho-hum lemonade stand? Kids are invited sell their work in the Kids’ Craft Market at the Playhouse Family Music Festival, held from
10-5:30, Saturday August 16th at the Historic Cove Creek School in Sugar Grove.
Kids are advised to bring their artwork, [...]

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Discount Advance Tickets Available July 14th
Now in its second year, the Playhouse Family Music Festival, the most family friendly festival of the summer, will return to Sugar Grove in August with nationally-acclaimed children’s music performer Billy Jonas, rising “kid hop” star Secret Agent 23 Skidoo as well as local favorites the Lost Ridge Band and [...]

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As a woman, can you imagine not having the needed supplies to deal with “that time of the month?” Millions of girls and woman around the world don’t have access to sanitary products, and if they do, their communities don’t have adequate waste management to handle the trash created.
You’ve heard me talk about HighCountryMommies.com [...]

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The Boone Service League has generously offered two tickets to their Spring Benefit for one Mom Squad reader. If you’ve never been, it is such a fun day of fashion, fun, and fund-raising. Here is some information:
Join the Boone Service League for an afternoon of fashions, food, entertainment and shopping on Saturday, April [...]

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Whether we realize it or not, we all know someone who has been touched by autism. April is Autism Awareness Month.
John Ondrasik, from Five For Fighting is not only an awesome musician, he does so much for charity. He has founded a website, called “What Kind of World Do You Want?” [...]

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The Children’s Playhouse Consignment Sale Offers People a Chance to Make Money and Help Their Children’s Favorite Play Space.
Don’t miss the 3rd Annual Playhouse Baby and Parenting Fair and Sale, which will be held April 18th-19th at the National Guard Armory in Boone. We will we have everything families love: two days of quality consignment [...]

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Feel like eating out tonight? (Tuesday) You could be served by a local celebrity, and benefit a worthy cause at the same time! ASU star athletes Dante Minter and Trey Elder will be at Mom Squad Sponsor, Blimpie, at the corner of hwy 105 and hwy 105 by-pass.
The proceeds from the 2008 [...]

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We all know friends who have given birth prematurely. Or maybe we ourselves have experienced premature birth. In January of 2001, I developed pre-eclampsia, and had to have an emergency C-Section at 34 weeks. Although my daughter wasn’t ever in immanent danger, those 12 days spent recovering myself, while watching my first [...]

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You may have noticed a new banner at the top of the High Country Mom Squad. I’m so glad to have the Hope Pregnancy Resource Center as a partner with us! If you’re wondering what exactly the HPRC does, check out the Friends of Choose Hope website. They are a non-political organization [...]

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