Ladies, I have a proposition: let’s lose the labels. I’m not talking about the designer variety, although I love a good designer label. I’m talking about mommy labels. You know the type, right? "Working mom," "stay-at-home mom," "work-from-home mom,"...
My parents were very private about their political opinions when I was growing up with my siblings, and with that privacy came a gaping hole in political discussion. In fact, whenever someone started talking about presidential candidates during an...
  We'd decided to adopt from the foster care system eight years ago. With hundreds of thousands of children in need of their forever homes, we felt this would be the best route for us to complete our family. As part...
Springtime brings new life with every turn of the corner, from a multitude of colors gracing our flowerbeds to those bright yellow fluffy chicks that are hatching daily in incubators around preschools everywhere. From sidewalk chalk pictures lining the...
My favorite number is three, and this year I turned 33. Leading up to my birthday I thought that since I was turning my favorite number I should plan an elaborate weekend of my favorite things. A restaurant tour...
Whether you're strolling down the River Walk, enjoying Fiesta, or visiting Mi Tierra or some other Mexican restaurant, it's hard not to encounter mariachi music in San Antonio. While Mexico is the birthplace of this unique music genre, the...
La música de mariachi es otra vez ‘cool’: sus orígenes, su importancia y sus raíces para San Antonio Ir al Paseo del Río, asistir a los eventos de Fiesta San Antonio, visitar Mi Tierra o algún restaurante mexicano, muchas veces...
Maybe it’s an evolutionary side effect of being the ones who give birth to and nourish our offspring, but in case you haven’t noticed, women are tough. And fortunately for everyone else in the house, we don’t get sick....
Snowballing. Spiraling. Treading water, while barely keeping my head up. Running, without a chance to catch my breath.  That is how many of my days as a mother feel. If I stop for only a moment, I'll be overrun by...
Spring is in the air (along with pollen, unfortunately), eggs are in the incubators in my son’s preschool class, my daughter is gearing up for a recital, and the wildflowers that paint the Texas hillsides and highways are more...
There are times when I reach the end of my day and don’t know when I lost control of it all. When did it slip away from me? At what point in my day did the wave come up...
I have three kids. Two of them (not to name names, but the first two) were fairly easy small people to raise. I swear to you, they never had tantrums. They never screamed "NO!" at me (at least until...

Buc-ee Is My BFF

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Is it a gas station? A convenience store? A restaurant? It’s hard to label exactly what Buc-ee’s is, but I can tell you that I’m unapologetically obsessed with it. Why, you ask? Let’s indulge in an imaginary road trip...
My father came from a family of Mexican Catholics; my mother, from a family of New York Jews. I grew up Unitarian Universalist with a knowledge that my religious legacy was as muddied as my genetic one. I have...

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¿Qué Pasa San Antonio? is a weekly update on family friendly and focused events in the Greater San Antonio area, including Boerne, New Braunfels,...