I don’t have a newborn baby in my house — if I did, I think I’d know. But my friend Tom is expecting a baby — or rather, he’s expecting his wife to give him a baby.
“What’s it like?” Tom asked. “Having a new baby.”
I think back to the sleeplessness surrounding the initial few weeks [...]

Every month, we’ll be featuring a Q & A from Children’s Hospital on a different health topic, as it relates to you or your children. This month’s topic is Donating Blood!
Q & A: Donating Blood to The Children’s Hospital
What is unique about The Children’s Hospital’s blood donation needs?
Unlike centers that store blood from large donation [...]

One thing I’ve loved about living in Denver the past nine months is the great variety of activities to do as a family.  To top it off there are several free days at the various museums making it very affordable to bring the kids.
If you haven’t been to the Denver Zoo or Denver Museum of Nature [...]

It’s with deep shame I admit a failing as a mother:
My 8 and 6-year-old sons are just now learning how to tie shoes. They hadn’t been given the opportunity to learn this life skill until recently.
We went shoe shopping. They immediately gravitated toward the usual vinyl superheroes splayed on the sides. Superheroes on shoes [...]

We’re almost a week into 2010. Many of you may have made new year’s resolutions and are plugging away at keeping them. One common resolution is to be more organized.
Getting organized can be a time consuming task.  It takes a lot of planning at first, but can actually save you time and money in the [...]

CONTEST CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER ERIN MILLIKEN!
Good thing we’re in the West because the Children’s Museum of Denver has gone Wild!
Every month, the museum explores a different theme and January is their Wild West Month.
Whenever my kids and I have visited the Children’s Museum in the past, we have never participated in their monthly [...]

Saturday. Shine up those belt buckles: The National Western Stock Show stampedes into town on Saturday for a two-week stand. There’s plenty of serious business to be done, like livestock judging and sales, but new activities are still popping up after 103 years. The all-new Ames Activity Pavilion is full of family-friendly fun like stick-horse [...]

The new year is an open book. Anything is possible. Would you like to have more energy? Would you like to find balance in your life? Here is a great list that addresses 10 different areas of our lives. Check it out, take notes, and let’s make 2010 the best [...]

The group I spent most of my time with in high school was a great group of kids always looking for some ‘good clean’ fun!  One of the things we enjoyed ocassionally was going bowling.
When you join the AMF Bowling Center eClub you can get free tickets for bowling.  This would be a great thing [...]

Millions of people love to read blogs. In fact, there will be about 150 million people reading blogs (double what it is today) in a mere two years. That means millions more like-minded women and moms will be looking to find and follow new blogs and make meaningful connections. And instead of [...]