The last time I hiked Highlands Bowl, my younger son was 7. It was a horrifying experience. The skiing was sublime. The hike, well, let’s just put it this way: I waited four years to do it again.
There is something about being a mom following a beloved son up a snowy knife-edge of a [...]

Saturday. Find out who’s “president” of the dinosaurs at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park. Puppeteer and storyteller Cathy Kelsay presents a special President’s Day performance for kids, with songs, silly outfits and other dino diversions. Before and after the show, tour the RMDRC’s awesome exhibits: More than 30 full skeletons, including [...]

The solution to nagging kids at the grocery store? Entertain ‘em with grocery-cart videos.
King Soopers is rolling out a new line of car-shaped carts that feature animated videos to keep children occupied while Mom or Dad gets the shopping done in peace.
Relative peace, anyway. The price parents pay is a series of commercial messages broadcast [...]

What is Letterboxing? Amber wrote a post about this last year, but I thought I’d add a little update of our own.  Honestly, before Amber’s post, I’d never heard of it. I thought maybe it was a craft idea or a new exercise routine.
Well, it’s not!
Oddly enough, being “crafty” helps, and you do [...]

Legend says Santa hits white sand beaches on December 26, a well-earned reward for the hard work of gifting the world with knick knacks and board games and electronic book readers. What does Cupid do the day after Valentine’s Day? Is he smugly thrusting his fat baby toes into sand on a pristine shore?
I [...]

I am excited about this weekend.  I will start on Saturday with a swing through the McDonalds drive-thru window where I will order my FREE coffee and then head up to Fraser, CO where we will whoop it up at the Fraser Tubing Hill!  I love living in Colorado where a short drive into the [...]

My husband Jamie and I are different.
Sure, in many ways we think alike, have the same interests and similar methodology with raising our children.
But we go about life very differently. He is low-key. Methodical. Wise.
I am not.
One of the areas in which we are most different is how we need to connect. I am

Assessments measuring the effectiveness of the Denver Preschool Program, which provides tuition credits to families and grants to qualifying preschools, show a majority of kids leaving ready for kindergarten.
Kids enrolled in DPP facilities made better than average progress in vocabulary, literacy and math during their preschool year, according to a 2010 evaluation, which also included [...]

Lily Nie is the ultimate tiger mother, matriarch of 9,350 children whose adoptions were facilitated by Chinese Children Adoption International, the Centennial organization she established in 1992.
Instead of seeking the limelight, she prefers to slip to the side. Her office door is papered with a giant handwritten tribute, one of many outsized Mother’s Day gifts, [...]

We all get sick every once in a while. But is it okay to send a sick child to school or out
to play with friends? Or should he just stay home until he feels better?
According to experts at The Children’s Hospital, there are three main reasons to keep sick kids at home:
1.) The child does [...]