My Healthy Plus-size Pregnancy
February 9, 2012 – 7:00 am | No Comment

Plus Size Birth is my new labor of love following a beautiful pregnancy and birthing experience. First came a love for my husband in 1999, then our marriage in July 2008, and most recently six months “trying” for that baby in the baby carriage. We had decided the month we conceived to stop [...]

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Mamas Night Out at the Children’s Hospital (and enter to win 30 of Qdoba’s Mini Street Tacos)
March 25, 2011 – 7:00 am | 17 Comments
Mamas Night Out at the Children’s Hospital (and enter to win 30 of Qdoba’s Mini Street Tacos)

Most of us are familiar with The Children’s Hospital of Denver’s top-notch medical services.
On Thursday, Mile High Mamas met at the hospital to learn about how moms like you can significantly impact the landscape of Colorado’s public policies. We also dined on Qdoba Mexican Grill’s new Mini Street Tacos.
Nothing like changing the world one [...]

Literally Growing With Obermeyer’s Innovative I-Grow System
March 24, 2011 – 7:00 am | 3 Comments
Literally Growing With Obermeyer’s Innovative I-Grow System

What are we up to this spring break?  Skiing with Obermeyer!

A leader in durable winter wear, Obermeyer brand ski gear is making an impression with ultimately functional, current, chic fashions designed for serious outdoor enthusiasts looking to play hard in style.  This company’s ‘I-Grow’ system for children is pure engineering genius, sure to be a trend-setting epidemic [...]

Celebrating my beloved DownEast Basics’ Colorado debut w/ a discount & $50 giveaway!
March 21, 2011 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
Celebrating my beloved DownEast Basics’ Colorado debut w/ a discount & $50 giveaway!

Do you have a store you love so much you could buy everything in it?
DownEast Basics is that store for me.
So, imagine my jubilation to hear this high-style, low-price fashion retailer that specializes in trendy fashions finally opened their first store in Colorado this month: at Southwest Plaza Mall in Littleton, to be exact.

My love [...]

PeeKoo—Making life a bit easier in the morning (and receive a 35% discount!)
March 20, 2011 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
PeeKoo—Making life a bit easier in the morning (and receive a 35% discount!)

Spring is finally here! I know most moms are feeling the same way I am right about now: bring on the warm weather! I don’t think I have ever had such a serious case of spring fever in my life. However, with spring comes the spring ahead in time change and it is quite a [...]

Woodward at Copper: The Coolest Summer Camp on Earth
March 17, 2011 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Woodward at Copper: The Coolest Summer Camp on Earth

Our boys had a great summer in 2010. Why? Because it was the first summer that they each went to sleepover camp. Although they didn’t go to camp together, they both went to the same freestyle skiing camp: Woodward at Copper.
Woodward at Copper is a relatively new, year-round addition to the [...]

Movie Review: “Mars Needs Moms” a witty space rescue
March 14, 2011 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
Movie Review: “Mars Needs Moms” a witty space rescue

You’ll want to stay through the closing credits of the new motion-capture animated adventure “Mars Needs Moms,” a film from the people who gave us “The Polar Express.”
There are four minutes of clips of the real-live cast of the film, Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler among them, wearing the mo-cap suits, dots covering [...]

Boulder journalist hopes her book helps end sex abuse of children
March 10, 2011 – 6:45 am | One Comment
Boulder journalist hopes her book helps end sex abuse of children

Tracy Ross hopes her third child, due in August, will be the daughter to whom she can give all the things her parents didn’t give her — empathy, validation and safety.
“I want a little girl because I can teach her how to be an empowered person that will stand up for others,” says the Boulder [...]

Ken, the original boy toy, turns 50
March 6, 2011 – 7:52 am | 5 Comments
Ken, the original boy toy, turns 50

Poor Ken.
The doll has spent his lifetime toiling, desperately, to please Barbie. He has worn sky-blue short shorts, with a matching man bag — an outfit only Barbie could have endorsed. In the 1990s, he wooed his gal by using styling gel to tease his hair into a slushy pile. And he wore neon. Lots [...]

Colorado Mountain Mamas’ FREE Spring Fling Event & Giveaways Galore (including a membership!)
March 5, 2011 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
Colorado Mountain Mamas’ FREE Spring Fling Event & Giveaways Galore (including a membership!)

Spring is just around the corner and Colorado Mountain Mamas, a local leader in helping moms get outdoors with their kids, is holding their annual Spring Fling on Monday, March 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Audubon Center at Chatfield.
The free event is open to the public and there will be [...]

Spring 2011 Consignment Sale Schedule!
February 21, 2011 – 7:00 am | 8 Comments
Spring 2011 Consignment Sale Schedule!

Twice a year, Mile High Mamas does a round-up detailing Colorado’s popular children’s consignment sales.
And for the third season in a row, Tracey Gifford saved the day. The proud mother of two elementary-age boys is the owner of the Just Between Friends sale in Denver and offered to compile this year’s schedule for me. As [...]