Halloween is around the corner and everyone is looking for the perfect costume. If you've searched for costume ideas online, specifically for couples, chances are you've seen my picture. In what now seems like ages ago, my husband and I...

Halloween Crafts for Kids

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I'm willing to bet that every store you visit is full of Halloween decorations and costumes now that October is only a weekend away! If you are anything like me then you must be super excited! This is a time...

Halloween Candy Overload

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Now is your chance. Stop the cycle! Take the candy and RUN! But only to give it away or put it to good use. Don't be like some people I know who may or may not hide it in the...
Alamo City Moms Blog is happy to partner with Goodwill San Antonio to share these tips on creative and thrifty Halloween costumes. This is a sponsored post. Halloween is just around the corner! It’s impossible to miss the huge costume industry...
  My almost 3-year-old, Jack, asked me a few weeks ago to come sit with him and have a picnic. He got the blanket, his toys, and told me we were at the beach. When he rolled off of the...
Nothing shouts Holiday Spirit like lovingly (or painstakingly?) DIY-ed decorations, but not every mama was born with a glue gun in one hand and grosgrain ribbon in the other. Fear not, my non-crafty friends! With the help of my...
Don’t be jealous of me you guys, but my Halloween Pinterest board has 247 amazing pins on it right now! To start, I’m making a quaint pennant banner to hang from my mantle that spells out, “Trick or treat, smell...
Octubre ya está aquí y todos buscan el disfraz perfecto para Halloween. Si de casualidad has buscado ideas de disfraces en internet, específicamente disfraces para parejas, es muy probable que hayas visto mi foto. Hace algunos años, unos amigos organizaron...
Fall is my favorite time of the year. After surviving the brutal summer in San Antonio, a slightly cooler fall is most welcome. About a month ago, my kids and I made a list of things we want to do...
COVID has canceled everything -- school, sports, concerts, Fiesta. But this mama is putting her foot down for Halloween. I believe in the Great Pumpkin and human ingenuity too much to give that up! Even if trick-or-treating looks wildly...
There is something about the start of Fall that makes me want to get lost. Not in the never ending roadworks or road closures affecting us this season - in a corn maze, of course! In South Texas we...
When my two older girls were little, I made an unpopular declaration: We do not buy Halloween costumes. You see, what kept happening was that by mid-September the girls would “decide” what their Halloween costumes would be. We were on...

Boo Baskets

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If you’ve spent any time on Instagram or Tik Tok lately, you’ll know that 2023 is the year of the boo basket. But “What’s a boo basket?” I hear you say! Just another attempt to make me part with my...
If you have older kids like I do, gone are the days of fun family outings to the pumpkin patch and weeks spent agonizing over the perfect Halloween costume. But the weather is becoming more bearable and you might...

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Viva San Antonio: How Fiesta Unites Us

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I once proclaimed that Fiesta really isn’t my thing. Yes, right here on Alamo City Moms, I put this shocking news into the world...

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