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If you’ve got a daughter who loves to travel, cook and play with dolls, today is your lucky day! If you don’t already know, each year American Girl introduces a Girl of the Year and the 2015 American Girl doll, Grace Thomas, is my favorite one yet.

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Globetrotting Girls: Meet Grace, the 2015 American Girl Doll

Grace is an enthusiastic girl who loves to bake with friends and invent new recipes. A trip to Paris inspires her to try new things – including turning her passion for baking into a business. Oh la la! I love that she encourages young girls to see the world but I also love that she encourages girls to help hungry kids by hosting bake sales with the For Goodness Bake program.

As always, a whole array of clothing, accessories and books have been introduced for Grace (and girls) including Parisian inspired accessories, chic outfits, a cute travel set and a tres magnifique (and tres expensive) French Bakery. My five-year old daughter and Grace have become fast friends. They practice counting in French, compare charm bracelets, read and bake together. Grace enjoys exploring NYC with us and my daughter enjoys styling Grace’s hair and outfits.

To encourage girls to get baking, American Girl is teaming up with Sur La Table stores nationwide to offer American Girl at Sur La Table: Make & Bake French Treats classes this April and May. In these special two-hour cooking classes, young bakers learn the fundamentals: following recipes, measuring, mixing and working safely in the kitchen. Girls get hands-on in the kitchen, learning the chefs’ secrets for making French pastry favorites including apple tarts, chocolate éclairs and Eiffel Tower cookies. Every girl gets to take home a goodie bag, including an American Girl apron and a cookie cutter from Sur La Table so they can continue their baking adventures at home.

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Globetrotting Girls: Meet Grace, the 2015 American Girl Doll

My daughter and I attended a preview of this baking class in NYC and it was super adorable and yummy. How cute are these Eiffel Tower cookies?

Globetrotting Girls: Meet Grace, the 2015 American Girl Doll

Spots are going fast so reserve your space in the April and May classes online.

Special thanks to American Girl and Sur La Table for a providing us with a complimentary doll and baking class. As always, all opinions are my own. If you don’t want to miss a post, subscribe to Globetrotting Mommy for daily updates!

We do a fair share of messy craft and cooking projects at home and away and there is usually a meltdown or two when it comes time for clean up. The joys of being mom to a 4-year old… When Swiffer invited us to come test out their new Swiffer Sweep and Trap at Make Meaning, one of our favorite NYC spots to get crafty (think pottery, soaps, cookies and candles) I was excited to test out the new Swiffer and my daughter was excited make a mess. Win, win!

Globetrotting Mommy – Swiffer Sweep & Trap launch at Make Meaning

The kids put on their cute Swiffer aprons and went to work making candy necklaces and decorating cookies with fondant, edible markers and sugary decorations. It was a dream come true for little G who loves anything crafty or sweet. The grown ups and kids got to test drive the new Swiffer Sweep and Trap which picks up big chunky messes like cereal as well as smaller items like glitter and traps them in a removable bin. No batteries or cords, no bending down with a dustpan, no dragging the vacuum out of the closet and perfect for my wood floors, it was love at first push.

Globetrotting Mommy – Swiffer Sweep & Trap launch at Make Meaning

For the grand finale, singer, songwriter and mom Jewel gave a private performance of the “Clean Up Song” which will be available for free download on www.facebook.com/swiffer, along with the video of her performance. Clean up, clean up everybody clean up…