Not everyone is comfortable with breastfeeding in public. I understand people have varying degrees of exposure to the act and art of breastfeeding. I fully respect other viewpoints when they are made respectfully and thoughtfully.
However, I find myself bristling when I hear the following from people who are on the anti side of nursing in [...]

My 4-year-old daughter, Beatrix, has beautiful hair.
It’s long, thick, and a sweet shade of warm nut-brown. But like many small kids with long locks, her hair is prone to tangling. Certain situations make tangling worse. Sleeping, bathing, and romping around have a way of making hair twist into knots and little nests.
I have no plans [...]

I want the serial killer lurking in the woods to know this:
I have left the back door unlocked. I am not armed. My room is at the top of the stairs to the right. I am usually sleeping from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am, but I have kids so these hours greatly vary. If you [...]

“Mom, what is chastity?” my 1st-grader asked.
It’s not the question to expect when in a gallery at the Denver Art Museum. We were standing in front of centuries-old painted panels from Mantua. They depicted Love, Time, Fame, Chastity, Death, Faith.
I told him it meant purity. Thankfully, that satisfied him enough that we could resume our [...]

I have six sons. Circumcision has come up in conversation more than once.
I’m not going to share with the world if they are circumcised. The only thing I will say about the condition of their bodies is they are not all the same, nor do they need to be.
Foreskins are not Christmas sweaters. [...]

Summer is fragile. It slips by at a dizzying pace. One moment, you are emptying the backpacks and stashing them out of sight.
The next, you’re filling a shopping cart with enough washable markers to decorate the exterior of a family band bus. It’s a good thing the Partridge Family didn’t use washable markers, or a [...]

Where were you when Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married?
On the morning of July 29, 1981, I witnessed spectacular pomp and solemn ceremony on a small TV in an Omaha motel room. Our vacationing family was traveling from Colorado to Minnesota. I was 10 years old.
My dad must have found an extra reserve [...]

Over Spring Break, our family traveled to the capital of Colorado’s left coast and my hometown, Grand Junction.
One of the biggest attractions in the region is a family fun center called Bananas. It has a mini golf course, go-carts, a huge enclosed pavilion packed with bounce houses and slides, batting cages, an arcade, laser [...]

We’ve been busy registering our eldest child for high school. I’ve had to visit the campus several times to make sure she’ll be an official member of the Class of 2015, starting next August.
To get to the front doors, I’ve had to run the gauntlet of the F-bomb. Every group of students I pass [...]

I asked my 2-year-old son what I should write about for Mile High Mamas.
He answered, “Where’s my cup?”
Sippy cups are evil. Even the ones with valves to prevent spillage are suspect. Don’t let the colorful, fanciful, engaging designs fool you. Embedded in the molded plastic lurks the spirit of spoilage. I don’t care [...]