What have your Saturday mornings looked like through the decades of your life?

Calendaring is the best way I know of to make time stand still.
When Tessa was born, my friend Juli (scrapbooker extraordinaire) gave me a beautiful handmade calendar that she designed especially for my daughter.
I’ve previously written about my documentarian tendencies. So it seemed natural when my children were born that I would add my kids’ [...]

To continue our annual tradition we offer again this vlog (video blog).
To: All Mile High Mamas everywhere
From: Three Mile High Mama sisters with very expressive eyebrows
RE: Holiday wishes
Happy and peaceful holiday wishes from me and mine to you and yours.

And I ain’t talking diapers for the baby.
I’m talking a facial for the mama.
The Ritz-Carlton Spa in Denver is a four-time Forbes Four Star award winning spa (2008 – 2012). And it is currently offering special ways to pamper anyone in your life that may be under a wee bit of stress (you, perhaps?). Or someone [...]

An acquaintance from a Denver-area high school told me via Facebook that her biological mom had died this year. She said that the whole thing had been a nightmare and that I should write about it.
I wanted to know more about what she meant by that and so Cheryl allowed me to interview her about [...]

This post may not be as salacious as you might think…
I sleep with a woobie. In the cold months. And my husband doesn’t mind.
What, you may ask, is a woobie? It’s a loaf-of-bread-sized bag of millet or buckwheat covered in a flannel casing. Ours were made by one of my students years ago. Pop one [...]

When it comes to motherhood, there are martyrs and there are saints, those who bend over backward and those who are not quite so flexible, as well as all points between. There are Marion Cunninghams and Carol Bradys, Marge Simpsons and Peg Bundys, each figuring out her own way to balance mommy’s needs with the [...]

My 10 year-old daughter Tessa, her brother Reed and I are watching Soul Surfer, a DVD that Tessa picked out from the local Redbox with Daddy while Mommy was out of town. They’ve already watched it but we see it again together.
It’s a feel-good movie with heartwarming moments of triumph over adversity and portrayal of [...]

For most of my life, through school and college and dating, through TTC (trying to conceive) and infertility, I was mostly guided by my head. I learned early on the surest way out of any problem was to study it, analyze it, work it, contemplate it.
I was pretty successful with this method. I earned several [...]

Girlfriend’s guide to selecting an adoption agency. Sixteen questions to ask as you engage your head and heart.