It’s time to interview another amazing blogger!  This week, Mile High Mamas is featuring Lori of Weebles Wobblog!
How did you get started blogging?
I googled a book I was reading (Waiting for Daisy) and landed on an invitation to a bloggy book tour. All I needed in order to participate was the book and a blog. [...]

This week marks the return of the festivals, such as the Scottish Festival down in Highlands Ranch. Bagpipes! Kilts! In a completely different vein, Littleton kicks off its Western Welcome Week, a festival that is 11 days long and full of fun and stampedes. Two vastly different events, but both offering lots of family fun.
It’s [...]

Hundreds of Stapleton families, many with kids in tow, turned out Wednesday evening to a community meeting at Bill Roberts K-8 to demand another school be built in the neighborhood.
Stapleton’s two elementary schools are filled to capacity, and a baby boom is expected to bring even more children, but there is no funding for a [...]

No, I don’t do daycare.
I can’t give you a lift to the airport or the ski resort, either. The tinted windows aren’t hiding well-behaved felons on their way to pick up roadside litter, nor am I a private investigator with cameras mounted to catch indiscretions and fraud.
I am simply a mom who drives [...]

Before I tell you the following story, I’ll cut to the chase: Roger is OK. “Roger? Who’s Roger? Isn’t Lori’s husband named Rob?” you may be asking yourself. I’m going to confess. I’ve been using an alias for my husband’s name all this time, for purposes of protecting my children’s privacy. [...]

Guest blogger Heather Simms-Schichtel is a parent advocate, freelance writer and full-time mom to Samantha a precious girl who has an undiagnosed genetic condition. She recently biked the 157-mile Courage Classic in Samantha’s honor.
I wake up and look at the clock….8:00 Friday morning; t-minus 24 until I have to be at the start in Leadville.
Not [...]

Last week I attended BlogHer in Chicago, a veritable cornucopia of 1,400 of the most powerful women bloggers in the world. Technology, mommy, food, travel and craft bloggers were just a few of the many tribes at this social media pow-wow. BlogHer even carved out a small niche by giving the “vaginally challenged” their own [...]

Scientists are great observers. So are writers. Why not combine the two? Get out your bubbles, your thinking cap and a notebook!

Experiment #1: Homemade bubbles vs. store bubbles
Homemade bubble directions:
1 cup water
2 Tablespoons dish soap
Test which make the longest, biggest, bubbles. Write down observations.

Experiment #2: Best bubble wands
store bought
pipe [...]

My daughter starts kindergarten in less than a month and I have been having an anxiety attack. My worries are not regarding time spent away from me (she will only be gone for 2.5 hours, less classroom time than preschool). It is her preparedness that is question. Though she is an alphabet wiz, I am [...]