Local Businesses

We are happy to share this resource of local black-owned businesses in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. By shopping with any of these businesses listed below, we are showing support to the entrepreneurs in our black community. If there is a...

You asked for it, and we are delivering today! Because we are SWANGRY 18 Things to Do with Your Littles When ÇA FAIT CHAUD Children's Museum of Acadiana This is more for the 7 and under crowd, but the Children's Museum of Acadiana...

Have you heard? After a year of being closed, the Lafayette Science Museum is back! (Cue music- *Return of the Mack*) Open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m.-6 p.m., the museum features hands-on...

  I turned thirty in 2020, at the height of another spike in COVID cases in mid-December. Ugh. It wasn’t exactly what I had expected after thinking all of my best thoughts about being thirty, flirty, and thriving. I...

Disclosure:: This post is sponsored by Bayou Slumber Sleep Consulting.  Why Hire a Sleep Consultant? A common acceptance of parenthood is that you’re going to be tired possibly for a few months. Babies and kids don’t sleep much, and that’s just the...

When I was six years old, I distinctly remember constantly re-writing my Christmas list to Santa. It was the same 5-6 items that I was asking for, my little and innocent mind changing the priority of the toys.  My...

The most controversial thing I can tell any mom in 2020 is “I don’t use Amazon.” We moms all experienced the terror that an international pandemic can do to our shopping trends. Not only was it more dangerous to...

There are so many things that we’d love to move past from this Corona saga, but let’s take a sec to recognize something we’d love to keep after the phases: curbside pickup! As a single mom of four young...

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Randazzo Giglio & Bailey LLC.  Four Important Legal Documents to Have During a Medical “Situation” Let’s be real. Life is a little crazy right now. However, during situations like these, we are often reminded of...

As a business owner and entrepreneur, never in a million years would I have guessed that we’d be in this situation. Never. It’s just not something that’s been on my radar. Hurricanes? Yes, I got a plan for that....