You may or may not have heard of a little app available on your smartphone or computer called Instagram. Sound familiar? It's consistently rated in the top five FREE apps available to smartphone users, and if you haven't joined...
We’ve all heard the research that tells us to begin reading to our kids daily as newborns, as it is important for social interaction, language acquisition, and brain development. Most babies and toddlers will happily sit with Mama or Daddy...
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We are thrilled to have partnered with our advertising sponsor and local Realtor® Lorena Pena, who works with a number of families to ensure they have the best experience when buying or selling a home. We recently asked her to share her...
One winter day in 2003, my friend Chrissy and I sat outside Starbucks on our college campus.
"Kristin," she said, "did you know that some women get Brazilian waxes? They pay someone to wax the hair in their butt-cracks."
"No," I...
We are thrilled to have partnered with our advertising sponsor and local Realtor, Lorena Pena, who works with a number of families to ensure they have the best experience when buying or selling a home. We recently reached out to our...
If you're anything like me, you like to talk. As moms, though, we are often limited in the amount of face-to-face time we can get with relatives and friends given the demands of school, schedules, work, and motherhood. So,...
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. Alamo City Moms Blog partners with local businesses to bring our readers information that their families will benefit from. We are thrilled to be partnering with local Realtor, Lorena Pena, who works with...
In the past few years we’ve seen many incredible novels transformed into (sometimes) incredible movies. The book lover in me is excited to see some of my favorite novels come to life on the big screen…unless of course the filmmakers ruin...
So this parenting thing is hard. My boys are in 5th grade and the parenting challenges seem to increase every year. It isn’t that the boys are physically demanding, like they were through their infancy and toddler years –...
I was over at a friends house a few weeks ago and her 4 year old wanted a snack. I'm pretty good at repressing the "teacher urge" when I'm with my friends and their kids - I try REALLY...
I'm terrible at math. I generally hate math (thanks to a horrific seventh grade math teacher). Despite those two things, I find that I'm a really successful math teacher. Probably because I can figure out a dozen ways to...
I am often bewildered by people’s Facebook status updates, but one particular variety of announcement used to cause me particular consternation. I’d read comments from my friends like “counting down the hours until my husband returns from California” or...
Oh, the love-hate relationship I share with my children’s artwork. First of all, who doesn’t love a preschooler’s handprint??? There are those special paintings that just came together and are truly beautiful. There are the “special memory” art pieces...
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