September | 2015 | The Pink Daily

I am super lucky that my husband likes to do the food shopping… or likes the few hours that it takes him out of the house on a Saturday afternoon! Either way, I’ll take it! I actually really dislike grocery shopping and I also dread making the list every week. So, when I got a flyer in the mail, with a coupon for three free meals, to try Hello Fresh… I jumped on it!

Hello Fresh creates all the healthy recipes, buys all the ingredients and then ships a box weekly right to your door! You even have choices. You can choose either a vegetarian box or a classic food box, and you can decide whether you want to feed two people or four people. I went with the classic box for two, and for $69 a week I get three full meals of my choice for two people. Some might think this is expensive, but it breaks down to basically $11/person per meal and everything is all organized for you which equals a huge time saver!

This was our first delivery and everything was delicious!

https://www.hellofresh.com

I first fell in love with Nantucket at the age of 17. I vacationed there with my friend’s parents and thought the island held a magical charm. We walked to the beach every afternoon, ate lobsters drenched in butter and biked for hours to nowhere in particular.

Nantucket represented something different in our 20’s! That same friend and I went back in our early twenties and we thought we were hot shit! We thought we were so grown up… “Going to Nantucket for the weekend”! Looking back, we kind of were!

Nantucket for me now is my Happy Place! I have a whole new appreciation for “The Island”, now that I have children. I first fell in love with Nantucket at 17, but my love affair with Nantucket really began when I started to go with my now husband. And since our oldest child decided to come five weeks early, while there on our baby moon, The Island has really cemented itself in our family history. Yes, that’s right, we are proud parents to a Nantucket Native!

Vacations in Nantucket now run at a slower pace for us, if you can really say that with three little boys! The television is turned off, the electronics are put down (for the most part), and we really spend two weeks enjoying each other. Notwithstanding the occasional meltdown that comes with little children, our days are spent at the beach or pool, followed by lunch at Cisco Brewers, and end for us on a porch with a glass of wine!

Aside from just walking around to take in all the picturesque homes and gorgeous flowers that seem to grow wild everywhere, here is my must do checklist for Nantucket.

For the Children

Tennis Lessons at Jetties Beach

Feed and meet the animals at the Maria Mitchell Museum (many different options available, check out their website, http://www.mariamitchell.org)

Nantucket Aqaurium (http://www.mariamitchell.org/visit/aquarium)

Nantucket Whaling Museum (http://www.nha.org/sites/index.html)

Power Boat Rental with fishing rods (http://www.boatnantucket.com)

Bike Rental (http://www.nantucketbikeshop.com)

Jetties Beach and Children’s Beach

Crabbing at Brant Point (under the bridge)

Live Music and lunch at Cisco Brewery

Visit Sankaty Head Lighthouse

Bartlett’s Farm