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Our First Kid-Free Trip to NYC: Broadway, Tom Felton & Real Mom Anxiety

This week on The Just Because Diaries, I’m sharing all about our first ever kid-free trip to New York City! Including my catastrophic pre-trip anxiety, whimsy and magical Broadway moments, and why this weekend ended up meaning way more to me than I expected.

We’re talking:

leaving the kids overnight for the first time

traveling without children (which honestly felt revolutionary)

New York pizza

Broadway shows

Drunk Shakespeare

Titanique

Stardust Diner

Tom Felton returning as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

stage door chaos

and the emotional experience of remembering that I…

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