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Win Dad a Family Vacation to YMCA of the Rockies!
May 21, 2012 – 6:15 am | Comments Off

If there is an affordable, fun family vacation that rivals YMCA of the Rockies, I’d like to know about it.
Since I moved to Colorado almost 10 years ago, we have had a family reunion and multiple trips to both of the YMCA of the Rockies’ Colorado locations.
As new parents with an irascible, insomniac toddler, [...]

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Potty Talk
April 4, 2008 – 12:59 am | No Comment

Join us in welcoming our guest blogger, Melissa. This photographer extraordinaire claims to be a semi-normal person who is surrounded by crazy people (namely her two daughters). This also means she will fit right in at MHM! She can be found blogging at The Howell Herald.
It must be a wonderful day in a child’s life [...]

FINALLY: The Way to Every Man’s Heart is Revealed!
April 3, 2008 – 12:37 am | No Comment

It is currently my husband Jamie’s basketball season and every year, I dread it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those overbearing women who doesn’t let her husband do anything fun. It’s just there’s something else factored in there: near-death experiences. You see, when Jamie played in the past, he was almost always [...]

The Rhythm Is Gonna Getcha
April 2, 2008 – 12:33 am | No Comment

No disrespect to my mother, but growing up, we didn’t have much music in the house. Unless you count German oom-pah music, of course. It just was never something that was all that important to her. Still isn’t.
For whatever reason, it was important to me. My first job was working in a record store (granted, [...]

35 things I have learned by having my tap water taken away
April 1, 2008 – 12:16 am | No Comment

I live in that small town in southern Colorado recently afflicted with salmonella in the water, and I would probably be remiss if I didn’t blog about what this experience has taught me.
1) It takes approximately four 16.9 fluid ounce bottles of water to boil a package of spaghetti.
2) [...]

Front Range Adventure Boot Camp Kicks [My] Bootie
March 31, 2008 – 12:00 am | No Comment

I have survived my first two weeks of boot camp. No, this maple-leaf-pledging Canuck did not join the American troops but I have ventured out on a new kind of workout and weight-loss program. The kind I hope will not only kick butt but will reduce my protruding one.
Do you know those women whose pounds [...]

Lemongrass Spa Products Giveaway
March 30, 2008 – 12:12 am | Comments Off

Congratulations to Amy F. of Greely, winner of our Little Hands Learning Activity kits!
I have a confession to make: I am addicted to lotion. I almost called it a fetish but such a descriptor conjures up images of perverts who collect women’s underwear.
Though admittedly many of my creams do hail from Victoria’s [...]

Two ways to make a difference!
March 29, 2008 – 12:29 am | Comments Off

Do you know a kid who is kind to animals? I don’t, which is precisely why my young children do not yet have any pets.
But for those who do, the American Humane Association is celebrating its 94th annual Be Kind to Animals Week, May 4-10. To highlight the event, American Humane is seeking nominations for [...]

That Which Does Not Kill You Makes Them Laugh at You in the Break Room
March 28, 2008 – 12:04 am | No Comment

Have you ever called Poison Control?
When I was pregnant with our first baby, we called. Did I ingest Lysol? Was I overcome with ammonia fumes? Did I take too many prenatal vitamins? No. I ate an apple.
In the process of apple-eating, I accidently bit into several little black seeds which were clustered together. [...]

Whither I goest, my baby will go
March 26, 2008 – 12:32 am | No Comment

The brouhaha of this past week regarding a blogger junket planned by Johnson & Johnson got me thinking about where it’s appropriate to bring a baby, and where it’s not.
Last summer, when I was still pregnant, many of my fellow bloggers brought their babies to the BlogHer conference in Chicago. Some of them [...]

If holiday ennui makes for a bad parent, then I’m downright terrible
March 25, 2008 – 12:58 am | No Comment

I am not religious. And I’m not really interested in celebrating the Hallmark holidays, either. Add to this an aversion to candy and an inherent laziness when it comes to decorating/cooking/shopping/costume-making, and you end up with a person who doesn’t appear to do very much in the way of “celebrating.”
This would be a non-issue, [...]