If you have recently moved to New Orleans, welcome! New Orleans Mom prides itself on being the premier parenting website for New Orleans, and we have dozens of tips for enjoying Mardi Gras with kids. While sleep is about to...
When you are a parent, any day can be a stressful day. Things with kiddos twist and turn on the turn of a dime, and often things that are going perfectly turn dark at a moment notice. Did you...
Safety Tips for Carnival That You Need to Know!
I have been very lucky of late to experience Carnival season in a way that not many people are able - "in" the parade, but not on a float. My husband...
2025 Metairie Mardi Gras Parade Schedule
Below is the 2025 Metairie Mardi Gras parade schedule (and Jefferson Parish). If you are looking for the New Orleans parade schedule, click here. The Northshore parade schedule (Mandeville / Covington / Slidell) is...
So what if your child has an exceptionality, they deserve to be part of the enormous fun and culture of that once a year experience of Mardi Gras. Navigating a parade can be stressful for any family with kids,...
Let's be real, Metairie parades have a bad reputation. The big show is in New Orleans. All the super krewes with coveted throws roll there. The city is party central from the Quarter to the Avenue. The tourists may book a...
10 Clues You Are a Working Mom During Mardi Gras
Motherhood is a constant struggle for work-life balance. Family pressures are constant, but what does it look like when you add Carnival season to the mix? Companies tend to be...
Every Who Dat in NOLA liked Mardi a lot,
But the COVID who came into NOLA did not.
COVID hated Fat Tuesday! The whole Mardi Gras season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be perhaps, that...
Five Ways to Use All Those Mardi Gras Beads
Ah, the parades are over, the kids are still home on Mardi Gras break, your feet and head ache, and the beads ... the beads have taken over!
Here are five ways...
This is our year. This is the year that my family, due to an unforeseen financial windfall and a late Mardi Gras, has decided to visit that place. THE place. The place with the magic. Yep … we are...
This year I am riding in Nyx. Although I used to ride in the Metairie parades on Mardi Gras day with my family, I am excited because this is my first time in an Uptown parade. It is also my first...
A little over three years ago, my husband and I, newly married, packed up all of our belongings and made the drive from Dallas to New Orleans. I can still vividly remember waving at my parents as we left...
Where are my Type A personalities at? Better yet, where are my Type As who don’t have a designated spot on the parade routes?
With parade season now in full swing, I’m having Mardi Gras anxiety.
It’s not that I don’t...
We're all doing our best at this parenting game, but here are some goals to keep in mind to bring your momming up to the next level:
What are your #NOLAmomgoals?