“This had to be the most perfect day ever to ski Buttermilk,” laughed my husband as we walked back to our car at the end of our ski day. “Deep powder and no crowds,” he crowed. “This may have been my best ski day ever!”
I will admit it and just throw it out there: Our [...]

Through May 28. The alphabet leads the way to learning in “Alphabet Zoup,” the latest exhibit at the Buell Children’s Museum in Pueblo. Each letter of the alphabet stands for a different object, place or idea, with corresponding information and activities. In “A is for Africa,” learn about Tambani, an initiative that helps African women [...]

Next week, I get to register Claire for Kindergarten! It’s hard to believe, but districts all over the Denver Metro Area are holding their Kindergarten Registrations in January!
(Stock photo credit: igoghost.)
So, next week, I’ll be standing in line at our neighborhood school…whether or not I want her to go there. If I was [...]

I am spending more time inside these days.  I stare at the walls of the kids rooms and think that perhaps I should redecorate or at least re-paint the walls. 
Fabric and Trim
Through the end of the month (January 31) Interior Fabrics is holding its annual clearance sale.  Snag savings of as much as 66% on selected fabrics and [...]

Little Annie Allen may grow up to be a mathematician or an expert in numerical alliteration.
The little girl was born at 1:11 this afternoon.
Or 1:11 p.m. on 1-11-11.
Annie’s mother, Jocelyn, was induced this morning.
According to Parker Adventist Hospital, around 1:10 p.m.

My son becomes the caretaker for his mom. And I see for certain just how much she contributed to the man he is.

There are Mommy & Me sign language, yoga and swim classes but why should it stop there?
At Echo Mountain it keeps going—straight down the mountain in their Parent and Me private ski lessons for 3-year-old skiers and his/her parent. The concept is brilliant and simple: Take a one-hour lesson with your child to prepare them [...]

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.
The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, [...]

Important things first: Children are admitted free to the 105th National Western Stock Show and Rodeo this weekend, which features the Colorado Rocky Mountain Fiddle Championships in the Beef Palace arena, the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza tonight and Sunday afternoon, and a Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association Rodeo this afternoon and Sunday night.
Some places are better than [...]

Yep, the kids are back in school, the decorations have been boxed (almost), and the leftovers have all been consumed. Families have returned from epic “vacations” after which most of us needed an additional vacation. By and large, we are all happily settling back into our pre-holiday routines, going strong with our fitness [...]