The Kid Blender:  A Single Mom’s Attempt to Find Joy in an Unexpected Life
February 8, 2012 – 8:00 am | 3 Comments

In this series of blogs, the “Kid Blenders,” I will be addressing our challenges, trying to blend our two families together. The names of the children will be changed to spare the easily embarrassed. And let me be upfront about this: I’m no clinical expert. I’m just a single mom trying to figure life out as I go. But knowing that there are around 14 million single parents out there…I’m guessing that I’m not alone in this venture.

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Your opinion: Should parents be required to buy a plane ticket for children under 2?
December 12, 2010 – 9:00 pm | No Comment
Your opinion: Should parents be required to buy a plane ticket for children under 2?

Holiday travel season is upon us and a polarizing debate has resurfaced: Should children 2 and younger be restrained in their own seat on an airplane?
On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a forum on child passenger safety in Washington D.C. MSNBC.com travel writer Harriet Baskas wrote about the hotly-debated issue:
The [...]

Movie review: Narnia sequel “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” finds exotic island adventure
December 11, 2010 – 6:50 am | No Comment
Movie review: Narnia sequel “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” finds exotic island adventure

*** STAR REVIEW | Fantasy
From their outset in 2005, the big- screen versions of C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” novels have had a particularly winning champion in the character of Lucy Pevensie.
Vividly portrayed by Georgie Henley, Lucy has embodied the franchise’s best qualities: its openheartedness, its loving grasp of the sibling bond, its celebration [...]

Ho, Ho, Ho-ly Overeating: Help Your Family Eat Smart This Holiday Season
December 10, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Ho, Ho, Ho-ly Overeating: Help Your Family Eat Smart This Holiday Season

The holidays are filled with tasty treats and busy schedules. As your family goes from one festivity to the next, Helen Seagle, Registered Dietitian at The Children’s Hospital, offers these tips for healthy eating.
1) Plan ahead – Instead of relying on fast food between school and office events, pack healthy foods ahead of time, like [...]

Cash Only, Please
December 9, 2010 – 7:04 am | No Comment
Cash Only, Please

I have a love/hate relationship with gift cards. When they first came out in the mid-1990’s, I thought they were the definitive answer to the weary and beleaguered, last-minute shopper’s prayers; an easy way to give a gift, in lieu of cash and still look semi-thoughtful. And, of course, to receive one was a ticket [...]

Event Round-up: Disney on Ice, Candy Cane Festival & More!
December 8, 2010 – 11:04 am | Comments Off
Event Round-up: Disney on Ice, Candy Cane Festival & More!

Through Sunday. Get a preview of all the fun times to come next year in Disney On Ice’s “Let’s Celebrate!” at the Pepsi Center. The musical show features a year’s worth of festivities, from a Valentine’s Day ball with Cinderella to a Very Merry Unbirthday party with Alice and the Mad Hatter. The cast of [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like COOKIES!
December 8, 2010 – 7:59 am | 1 Comment
It’s beginning to look a lot like COOKIES!

Fire up the oven and dust off your cookie cutters: Holiday baking season is in full swing. Here are five classic recipes for your next cookie swap.
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Recipe from Hershey’s, available at hersheys.com. Makes about 4 dozen.
Ingredients
48 chocolate kisses
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 [...]

True Holiday Confessions: I Only Pretend to Like Holiday Decorations
December 8, 2010 – 7:00 am | 10 Comments
True Holiday Confessions: I Only Pretend to Like Holiday Decorations

There. I said it. I don’t like holiday decorations.  Bah Humbug!  Not only that, I’ll take it a step further. I can’t stand holiday decorations. Would “hate” be too strong a word? I’m probably not going to make very many friends with this post today, but today’s post is about confessions, [...]

Denver Deal: Georgetown, Tuba Christmas, and more!
December 7, 2010 – 11:58 pm | No Comment
Denver Deal: Georgetown, Tuba Christmas, and more!

There are so many things to do this time of year that are so much fun and most of them don’t cost anything (or much).  (Plus, I have to sneak in a Happy Birthday to my son Dalton who will be 11 on the 11th! – so, I have birthday plans this weekend!)
Ice Skating
The Rink [...]

Fine dining WITH kids? Yes at EDGE
December 7, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Fine dining WITH kids? Yes at EDGE

“Daddy, why are you letting that man drive your car!?”
Tessa was alarmed when my husband handed the car keys to the valet at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Denver. I realized then that bringing our children to a fancy-schmancy restaurant and exposing them to fine dining was not a bad idea.
Did Roger and I [...]

Tips for Surviving the Dreaded “Mommy Clique” (and share your own stories)
December 6, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Tips for Surviving the Dreaded “Mommy Clique” (and share your own stories)

Now that my kids have been in school for a few months, they are adjusting to an entirely new social hierarchy. Fortunately, they’re still young enough that friendship prerequisites center around if their peers are nice or if they have the same taste in clothes.
The latter was illustrated on the first day of school when [...]