When my younger brother was in elementary school, he begged and begged for a special video game for Christmas. One day, a few weeks before Christmas, he saw a present under the tree with his name on it. It was the exact size and shape of a Nintendo video game, so he decided to take [...]

During my career as an adventure-travel writer, my accommodations ranged from the most opulent mountain lodges to the cold, hard ground. And to be honest, I loved them equally.
Until I gave birth.
And then camping involved wrestling young children away from the fire pit and sleepless nights in the tent as they [...]

Wanted: your favorite holiday recipes!
Simply click on “Holiday Recipes” under the mama-to-mama forum, briefly register and add your favorite recipe. If it is not an original creation, please provide the correct attribution. Because isn’t it about time that Grandma Jean got some recognition for her famous eggnog pie? (Editor’s note: if someone does [...]

The hardest my hands have worked in the past three and a half years is washing baby bottles, noses and bottoms.
But a few months back, I found myself at a table with five other women, trying to make my fingers loop and twist yarn into something that resembles knitted fabric. When my sister-in-law, Dana, [...]

It’s time to get serious about toy shopping, not only because the holidays are just around the corner, but because lately we’ve had recall after recall and toy shopping has had to become serious business. Serious business because it’s proving to be more important than ever to do your homework and know that the toys [...]

For me, Christmas has everything to do with Mexican food, and nothing to do with Walkmans.
For the first time in their lives, Emma and Kyra (three and two, respectively) played major roles in the tree-decorating tradition. In a moment of sheer delirium (or genius as it were) I decided to provide them with construction paper, [...]

Dust off your cookbooks because we will soon be launching a holiday recipe exchange contest like no other! We have a fantastic prize package and select winners’ recipes will be published in The Denver Post on December 19th. Stay tuned for details!
Also, our contest to the Colorado Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker ends [...]