What a week it’s been, what a crazy time to be alive. We did it, the 5th grade car parade. Here he is, friends, in all his 5th grade preteen graduate glory. Ear to ear smile, elbow-elbow-wrist-wrist wave, beaming like a Grand Marshal and soaking in the revel of his celebration. An era has ended […]
The first time she bent over and I noticed a bump on her right side, I assumed that her training was too intense on her dominant arm. At 13, my daughter was approaching 5’10” and she was swimming 16+ hours a week as she prepared for her competition season. It was most noticeable to me […]
Every generation has their own language or slang that identifies them one from the other. I’m a Gen X’er and my ’80s vernacular is still very much a part of my vocabulary. So much so that my kids actually use some of it themselves; but, it was the ’80s and, well, everyone loves the ’80s. […]
It wasn’t supposed to end this way for the Class of 2020. Many of you were in our bellies as we watched the Twin Towers fall the day our lives changed forever. The world that you have experienced is so vastly different from the one we knew. You came of age with the iPhone and […]
Teenagers by definition are often moody and temperamental. Frequently, the happy go lucky kid who comes down for breakfast isn’t the same grumpy one who emerges from the bathroom after brushing his or her teeth, thirty minutes later. As a parent, I have witnessed this more times than I can remember and every time I’m […]
April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month and Houston Moms Blog is dedicated to helping raise awareness about child abuse prevention. This is one mom’s story. Recently, I joined a new group of parents. It wasn’t a voluntary membership; I did everything to avoid it. It’s the loneliest club, one that no parent wants to […]
Every April, the world changes to light things up blue for Autism Awareness Month. This year, as the world battles COVID 19, Autism Awareness Month has taken a bit of a backseat and understandably so. I’m not trying to take anything away from the seriousness of the health crisis that we are living currently; however, […]
We are proud to partner with Legacy Community Health for this valuable information.Being a teenager is tough. This period in a young person’s life brings about many changes, both physically and emotionally. It can also be challenging for their parents. This week marks a national initiative called Teen Week, to raise awareness about both teen […]
We are in the midst of history during this quarantine. Sometimes it is hard to see the historical significance of what is going on in our world, but with something as significant as the COVID-19 quarantine we know that this will be in the history books. In order to remember all that we did and […]
My earliest memory of my daughter Olivia’s {2006} love for food is when she was about 2 years old. Fruit gummies were her favorite snack, as well as yogurt melts – the little drops of fruit flavored yogurt that looked a lot like small meringues, but not quite as full of refined sugar. Her little […]
