This Spring has reinforced why many of us live in Austin: the gorgeous weather. Yes, we’ve had to endure years of heat and drought to get here, but we’ll take a May where it’s still possible to wear a light jacket on the walk to school. We all know what’s around the corner, though: the unrelenting, run-from-the-car-to-an-air-conditioned-structure time of year we call summer. Many parents survive our Austin summers by either being submerged in water or with a cool drink in hand (and depending on how the day’s going, I won’t judge if it’s a margarita). Since many of the neighborhood pools don’t open until June 10th, it’s the...
Gardening with Kids ...
posted by Nicole Basham
Some days I can’t help but wish I were a Renaissance mom. I may not be a stellar cook, but I have expanded my cooking repertoire by leaps and bounds and have added many more vegetarian and healthy meals to our rotation. I may not be a cyclist who has a bike attachment for my kid so that we...
Dirty Girl Mud Run
posted by Catherine Prystup
Dirty Girl Mud Run, the original—and biggest and best – organized mud run for women, is coming to the Austin area on Saturday, March 23rd and will be held at Stunt Ranch. You’ve probably heard of mud run organizations like “Tough Mudder,” the hardcore, military-style mud run...
Help for New Year...
posted by Catherine Prystup
The cycle is the same. Every year we overdo, over-booze and over-eat our way through the holiday season and by the time the new year rings in, we are all ready to start anew – to look and feel like our best selves. And while many resolve to make a big change, commitment and sometimes the...
School Lunches and t...
posted by Lori Anderson
School’s back in session, and that means that school lunches and breakfasts are likely a big part of you kid’s day. Have you ever wondered how it all works? Who’s to say your child can’t go through the lunch line and choose only the dessert option for his or her...
August is National B...
posted by Catherine Prystup
Today, August 1, 2012, kicks off National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH) was funded to carry out the recommendations of the HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding (2000) into a National...
Dealing with Holiday...
posted by Nicole Basham
photo credit: JMacPherson Most parents I know wage a constant battle against being overtaken by STUFF in their house. Admittedly, this is a first world problem. Are you sometimes stumped at how to properly dispose of holiday detritus? Are your trash bins and/or recycling bins...
Mother’s Milk ...
posted by Catherine Prystup
“The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infants.” I was invited to take a tour of the Mother’s Milk Bank at Austin a...
Go Take a Hike by Ca...
posted by Catherine Prystup
I was annoyed at first. So, now SITTING is bad for me? Already I have to eat right and exercise, by now I can’t even sit down? Tara Parker reported in The New York Times about a study published in May in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. It concluded that men...
Special Feature: Cor...
posted by jenrford
Corbyn, her husband Larry and 2 of their 3 beautiful children, taken by Heidi Margocsy Corbyn Hanson Hightower is a wife, mother of three, former member of the rat race, farmer, dumpster diver, writer and all-around awesome woman. Corbyn writes a blog, aptly named Corbyn Hanson Hightower,...
The Best Way to Disp...
posted by Catherine Prystup
The month of January has brought all kinds of sicknesses to my house. In fact, we’ve renamed January to Sickuary. If it wasn’t the cedar making us feel like death was knocking on our door, it was a virus of some sort that knocked one or all of us out. On one such day when my son...
Save On, Mom: Lady B...
posted by Catherine Prystup
Hey Mamas, have you been to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center before? Shamefully, the first time I went was a couple of weeks ago. And what a gorgeous place it is! It’s a wonderful place to bring kids to explore the outdoors, or for mama to escape the chaos of being a mommy for...
