Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes’ Chicken Won Ton Happiness Salad makes me happy.
That’s why taking the restaurant up on their 25% off discount for catering was a no-brainer. My neighbor Kristen (already a mother of three kids and two stepchildren) is pregnant with twins. Unexpectedly. If that doesn’t deserve an all-out celebration, I don’t know what [...]

Welcome to another Spangler Science Saturday. I have never been much of a Halloween fan, but after working with Steve Spangler for more than five years, Halloween has become one of my favorite holidays. I had no idea you could have so much fun with dry ice and warm water. If you are planning a [...]

Dear Mama Drama:
I have a question about my granddaughter who just turned five.  She literally copies every thing that every one of her friends or cousins does (Monkey See, Monkey Do).  She even copies things that other kids do even when she knows it is wrong!  We wonder that if one of her friends jumped [...]

‘Tis the season when decapitated mummies and axe-wielding ghouls haunt the aisles of grocery stores and the lawns of our neighbors.
It’s ugly out there.
My kids like to visit the Halloween slivers of stores, where orange and black reign supreme and candy buckets have moving claws. Rows of plastic skeletons hang limply from hooks, fugitives from [...]

Friday-Sunday. It’s a three-day Halloween extravaganza at the Children’s Museum of Denver’s Trick or Treat Street. There’s plenty of candy, of course, but also a full day of spooky activities. See live performances — like storytelling, magic and a visit from Ronald McDonald — or take a course in “Pumpkinology.” Vern’s Mini Train will be [...]

OK. Maybe not for *every* family. But there sure were *a lot* of families there this year.
If you have never even *heard* of the Denver Zombie Crawl, let me enlighten you.
Started 5 years ago by Denver native Danny Newman, the event has grown exponentially every year until this year’s event, held last Saturday in Skyline [...]

Happy Halloween!  I hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday.  I hope all the mamas check their kids’ Halloween haul to ensure their favorite candy is safe!  My kids abhor when I remind them I must “check” the candy – and somehow most of the Snickers and every 100 Grand bar does not pass muster - at [...]

Several years ago when Sarah Handy began teaching students with autism at Mortensen Elementary in Littleton, she found her students were rarely allowed to mix with other pupils in the Jefferson County school.
That has changed.
Now most of the 18 students with autism are integrated, and the work of the staff has caught the eye of [...]

“What should I be?” I overheard one girl asking another in a costume store recently.
I’m an eavesdropper, and this conversation was well worth following.
So, in all my middle-aged invisibility, I lingered as the pair of middle-schoolers contemplated their choices for Halloween.
These were tweens with braces and eyeliner — young enough to fit into kids’ sizes [...]

This Halloween, instead of trying to pass yourself off as a costume- clad grade-schooler or rifling through your kid’s goody bag to claim the Halloween Parent Tax, visit one of Colorado’s prized candymakers to stockpile your own booty before the big night.
Moms and dads will hardly notice that pile of jawbreakers and lollipops once they’ve [...]