*This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Cookie on winning! Thanks to all who entered. You know how Ariel and Eric unite to live happily ever after in the Disney version of The Little Mermaid? That’s all fluff. That’s not the stuff of real life. In Nat Miller’s adaptation...

When things are going as planned at home, I cook five or six nights per week (all bets are off during baseball season!). Because I’m cooking a good 300 nights a year, roughly, I am always looking for inspiration in the kitchen, particularly in the form of that one dish that every family...

“Why didn’t anyone tell me that there was a movie out that was made JUST FOR ME?” crowed my friend Erin as we departed the movie theatre on Friday night. “I feel so special!” The movie in question is Beautiful Creatures, the movie based on the YA thriller that...

M-I-C… …K-E-Y… …all together now! …M-O-U-S-E. For many kids, a trip to Disney (either Disneyland in California or Walt Disney World in Orlando) is a rite of passage of sorts. In fact, almost 17 million people visited Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 2010...

milk + honey spa has recently moved and expanded their downtown location. I was invited to come try a Signature Facial, and there was absolutely no way I was going to turn that down. The last time I visited milk + honey, I was largely pregnant and in desperate need of a massage. The pre-natal...

Is it just me or do your kids also attempt to thwart all of your efforts to be the perfectly patient mom by getting out of bed for a million different reasons at at bedtime? It goes something like this: All snuggly in bed, freshly bathed with their favorite jammies on, you read their favorite...

As your child grows bigger, you slowly begin to slough off all the accoutrements of babydom: the play gym, the jumperoo, the Bumbo, the high chair, the bouncer, the Exersaucer (whew! That’s a lot of stuff!) One of the items that stays with you the longest is a car seat. If you have an...

Although we are lucky to live in Austin where we have so much fun stuff to do, there is certainly something to be said for a road trip. For most kids, simply the idea of staying somewhere other than your own bed is thrilling (can you say hotel pool?), and chances are, you have friends in other...

* This giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who entered! Sometimes, when your parenting life gives you lemons, you make lemonade (mixed with your alcohol of choice). At least, that’s how Janet Frongillo, the lady behind the curtain at Muffintop Mommy, rolls. I read about her recent...

How far would you have to drive to get to this view? Not far, friends. From my house in Pflugerville, I can be here in thirty minutes (without traffic, of course!). Having just come back from a vacation in Colorado, I thought for a moment that I was transported back there when I awoke to this...

When we moved into Windsor Park in December 2004, the city had just approved plans to develop the site of the old Mueller airport into a mixed-use space featuring high-density residential property, retail space, green space, and so on. It’s been nearly eight (!!!) years and it has been...