LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day proved to be a win-win for local businesses, with bustling activity in restaurants and shops.<\/p>\n
For Alex Huber, the day marked her first Mother\u2019s Day as a mom. She spent it wearing matching dresses with her 8-month-old daughter, Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely great to be celebrated and just take a moment to reflect on our new little family,\u201d Huber said.<\/p>\n
The holiday also brought a boost to local businesses.<\/p>\n
Families enjoyed breakfast at the DoubleTree, where general manager Carlos Gomez emphasized the importance of creating memories for both guests and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re doing this for our moms. It’s a special day for them. We wanted to have a place for them to come and create memories with their families. And definitely we want to create that for our staff here as well,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, music enthusiasts flocked to Record Riots, where owner Stephen Gritzan noted the joy of seeing mothers share their love of music with their children.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so great to see all these nurturing moms with their kids, bringing them to music, which is such a nurturing thing. So, it’s really like food for the soul\u2014records and CDs and all of that. It’s really very touching,\u201d Gritzan said.<\/p>\n
At Billy\u2019s Downtown Diner, the smiles were just as abundant.<\/p>\n
Owner Yanna Kounoupis worked alongside her daughter Georgia and son Michael, watching families create lasting memories.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery much so, very much so, great kids,\u201d Kounoupis said of her children.<\/p>\n
She added that one of her favorite parts of Mother\u2019s Day is seeing families come together while also working alongside her own.<\/p>\n
From cozy breakfasts to vinyl-filled afternoons and family-run diners, Mother\u2019s Day brought business to local establishments, proving that the holiday is as much about celebration as it is about connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day proved to be a win-win for local businesses, with bustling activity in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391,60],"class_list":["post-188885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}