Dallas Moms

Living in Frisco, my family doesn't often venture into Downtown Dallas. But when we do, there's one place that we're usually headed -- the Perot Children's Museum. While there are many jewels in Dallas that cater to children and families...

Remember the days when you had the luxury of an hour or more to get ready in the morning every single day?  Yeah, I don't really remember either.  But, that's what I hear used to happen.  These days, a...

The writers of Dallas Moms Blog have always been a fairly tight knit group of girls. Each year, we carefully analyze and select who we'll be adding to our team, not just because we want writers who will deliver...

My husband and I love sports…especially our hometown Dallas teams that we have followed through good and bad times for 30ish years. We are definitely passing down our enthusiasm to our children. We had been discussing taking the kids to...

Dallas Moms Blog partners with Kidville to bring moms up-to-date information about great events and activities for children. Find out what's happening this summer to help gives mom a little break between spring and fall preschool! When May rolled around,...

My little boy just had his fourth birthday this past Friday, and I knew we needed to celebrate him with friends, family, and fun. I'm pretty good at making my kids feel celebrated and special, but I'll be honest:...

Last summer when the Museum of Nature & Science and the Children's Museum moved out of Fair Park, I was very concerned for this area of town. With the State Fair of Texas only open 1 month out of...

Over the last few days, I have many well intentioned people asking me how *I* felt about the Cheerios controversy. For those who are just like me and missed the dramatic headlines, Cheerios has a new commercial that features...

Attention Star Wars Fans! This weekend the new LEGO® Star Wars™ Episode IV MINILAND Model Display– a large-scale, interactive LEGO model display, chronicling the adventures of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope-- arrives at Legoland Discovery Center Dallas/Ft. Worth in Grapevine Mills Mall for a Limited Time...

A few weekends ago, I gathered in downtown Dallas with about 1,000 other local citizens to March Against Monsanto. It was my first protest march. We were marching to bring awareness to the inescapable presence of Genetically Modified Organisms...

Strawberries. One of my favorite foods of the summer! Oddly enough, I'm not a big fan of eating them plain. They're just a little too sour for me, but douse them in sugar and let them sit, or use...

It made ALL of us cringe before we were mothers: kids and the GROSS things they do. Hearing (and sometimes seeing) various tales of older sibling as well as friends who had children we could only conclude one possible...