It all started one Friday when I heard a radio ad for a casting call to take place over the weekend.
I’d never harbored dreams of Tessa acting/singing/dancing, so what I did next was pure impulse. I dialed the number. And in the 10 minutes it took to drive through the school’s pickup line, [...]

Two years ago my daughter-with-the-dazzling-smile fell and cracked one of her newly-minted top front teeth. On a Friday night. I picked up the tooth stub from the floor and frantically tried to figure out how to save her from a life of gap-toothedness.
In what turned out to be a Very Important Referral, I called our [...]

Our new Wii brought a such happiness to my son, Reed. He spent all of Christmas morning plotting just exactly how this new addition would change his life. He angled to get the Wii set up in the basement, where he and Tessa have their DVDs and old-style game system set up [...]

Said by me in utter hubris, pre-2001.

No child of mine will ever go up the down escalator or inconvenience others by playing with the elevator buttons.
No child of mine will ever make too much noise on an airplane.
No child of mine will ever run wild in a sit-down restaurant.
No child of mine will ever [...]

This post comes with a giveaway. Read to the bottom for info and to enter.
No parent wants to raise a mean girl.
The author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, the book on which the film Mean Girls was based, wants to help Denver-area moms and their daughters navigate more easily through the tween and teen years.
Rosalind [...]

The exhibit starts in a bright red antechamber. I notice a faint throbbing noise, an incessant heartbeat. I see about 2 dozen large red barrels bathed in red light. They represent the amount of blood my heart is going to pump today — 1800 gallons at a pace of about 3 ounces per beat. It [...]

As part of our post-adoption homestudy nine years ago, our agency required us to attend classes in Infant & Child CPR and to submit our certificate of completion for our file. At the time, doing so seemed like just another step in a looooooong series of hurdles to become parents.
And like [...]

Anyone who blogs or writes is probably a control freak. We write to bring order to chaos. To understand the mystifying. To get people to do something, even just to agree or disagree.
As any of the three people who live with me will attest, I fit nicely into the CF category.
One evening [...]

While our own Amber, editor-cum-blogathlete, is in Vancouver reporting on behalf of Microsoft Office on the Winter Games, I am here thinking about the Mama-lympics that we Mile High Mamas train for year ’round.

Vancouver has Curling…Mile High Mamas have curling irons (to tame unruly hair).
Vancouver has the Short Track…Mile High Mamas have short tykes (very [...]

People who’d undergone LASIK were quick to tell me “Nothing to it!” or “Best thing I ever did!” Occasionally, someone would say, “I had to go back in for a tune-up.” or “I had to rest a few days afterward.” But no one ever told me about the procedure itself.
Like I am about to tell [...]