I love sitting around with my mom and aunt, swapping old stories. Many of them I have heard repeatedly, but I don’t mind hearing them again – because the stories bring back the childhood I can’t remember on my own – AND bring me closer to my loved ones who love so far away.
Aunt Heidi [...]

Has anyone else noticed that when kids finally go to school, they clam up? I mean, literally STOP TALKING.
“How was school today?”
“Good.”
That’s it. That’s all I get. Sorry, kid, but when you’re out of my sight for a full day, one word answers do not pass muster. This is the same kid who used to [...]

I was out to dinner with a friend the other night and she commented on how her son would need braces sooner than later. It seems that’s the new trend, doing a round of orthodontia early, and a round later, and overall it’s cheaper and easier. She was a bit abashed at the idea of [...]

In the springtime last year, my son Declan had this amazing idea. He decided that, instead of a standard lemonade stand, he wanted to have an Art Sale in the backyard. When I posted about it, friends contributed ideas and we had an ONLINE version that raised nearly $800 for environmental causes – in just [...]

There has been some recent brouhaha in the blogosphere about the act, or non-act of – you guessed it: to circ or not to circ. This question seems to flare up from time to time, with people heatedly coming down on one side or the other – and unfortunately, many feelings being hurt in the [...]

Guess what the Greeblemonkeys got for Christmas???

Technically his full name is “Poe Hamster.” Poe as in Edgar Allan. Because Bryan loves Edgar Allan Poe as a writer and Poe was from Baltimore (where we grew up) and also Poe the dog was born in October – so it was a slightly creepy name we could [...]

A few weeks ago, my best friend asked me to go to see Twilight with her. I went, even though I really knew nothing about the series, because… what the heck. It was fun – and a nice girls afternoon away from life.
But then OF COURSE I was required to read all the books. [...]

Last weekend we took Declan to see Michael Franti & Spearhead in concert. This wasn’t just any concert, mind you – it was a kid’s matinee concert on Saturday afternoon between Franti’s two evening shows on Friday and Saturday night. Which absolutely changed the tenor of the show, let me tell you. Like, for example, [...]

I know I haven’t gotten crazy personal here on Mile High Mamas, but to understand this post, you have to understand that my childhood was not all fun and games. My dad was a fairly abusive alcoholic with a narcissist mother who stuck her nose in everything right up until his will was read when [...]

I think you all have figured out by now I am a political junkie. Well, let’s just say I know enough to be dangerous. But today is certainly a relief. I am ready for the election to be over and move on to the big picture. But there is one, teensy, minor detail that needs [...]