One of the things we love most about Alamo City Moms Blog is the feedback that we hear from you all when you say that you feel like you've found a mom on our site that you can relate...
Mild temperatures on fall days help make San Antonio a wonderful place to live, days with temperatures near 80 degrees in October. Five months ago, we were surrounded by family visiting from out of town, on one such weather-is-mega-cooperating...
Education is a passion of mine. As a first grade teacher, I have the honor of teaching children to read. I truly love my job. I also have the unique role of developing a relationship with parents and their...
The summer between sophomore and junior year in college, my roommate Katie and I scrapbooked our summer away. In between summer school classes, we'd marathon-watch movies and cut, glue, embellish, and tape our memories from the last year onto...
I love history. I love kitsch. Lucky for me, downtown's Buckhorn Museum has plenty of both. On a recent rainy Sunday, my husband and I took Claudia (4) and Thomas (closing in on 2) there for an outing. The pictures pretty...
It seems that several of my friends, myself included, are in the stage of life where our first two big-post-college-purchases are dying - our washing machines and our loyal dogs we got when we were first out on our...
Alien Worlds and Androids is a new exhibit at the Witte Museum's Kathleen and Curtis Gunn Gallery. Pop culture icons, including characters from Star Wars, Iron Man, Alien, and Terminator, are the gateway to cutting-edge scientific concepts based on research from...
One of your friends or relatives might have a special needs child, and maybe you're never quite sure what to say. You don't want to make your friend uncomfortable or say the wrong thing, so maybe you don't say...
Right around the time Jack was 18 months old, he was playing on the floor of my grandmother’s house as a slew of adults oohed and ahhed over his cuteness because you know, that's what first time parents, grandparents,...
When I was a kid I used to look forward to Spring Break as soon as Winter Break was over! What kids doesn't love a week off from school with nothing to do? As a parent however, I don't...
Do you remember back when you used to go on a date and simply call it “going on a date” instead of declaring it a “date night”, like it is some monumental boulder perched weightily atop the precipice of...
I hope you have read Brooke's guide to enjoying the San Antonio Rodeo with your kids. The rodeo runs through February 23; if you want to extend your experience, I recommend a trip downtown to the Briscoe Western Art Museum. The rodeo is...
My husband and I have an ongoing love affair with the city of New Orleans. One of our first trips to the Big Easy was back in 2002, when we first started dating. Ryan, an appellate attorney here in San...
One of the topics greatly underserved in the postpartum world is that little three-letter word that carries so much stigma. That’s right - S. E. X.
You always hear it thrown around... talk that sex changes after kids, guys giving...
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MTFBWY – Decoding Star Wars
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…
Well not that long ago, and not really that far away, a youngling watched Star...
