Taking Better Pictures of Your Kids in Flower Fields

With all the rain we have been having one of the benefits is all the fields of beautiful wild flowers. It is a wonderful Austin tradition to go out and get pictures of your kids in a bluebonnet field. Here are a few tips to help you get the best pictures possible. 1. It is [...]

Masterful Silhouettes from a Master craftsman.

*** GIVEAWAY *** You could win a free silhouette ($25 value) for your child!  Leave us a comment (in the Speak Your Mind section), and tell us where you’ll hang up the silhouette in your home if you are the winner.  Comment entries will be accepted until January 27, 2012.  A random winner will be [...]

Little Local Lunches

School lunches have a bad reputation. And, generally speaking, they deserve it, considering that congress just two weeks ago refused to approve new rules proposed by the Agriculture Department that would have added more fresh fruits and vegetables to American kids’ plates every day, while cutting down on the overwhelming prevalence of pizza. Evidently swayed [...]

Where were you 10 years ago?

How can ten years have already passed?  My children will never know September 11, 2001 as I know it.  They will study this in their history classes probably in another ten years.  They will sympathize with those figures in times past who experienced the terror first hand, analyze the politics before and after the terror [...]

Aquarena Springs (San Marcos)

No swimming pigs but still worth the drive! I wish we could have seen Aquarena Springs back in its heyday. It’s a shadow of its former self of swimming pigs, underwater mermaids and sky gondolas over the boardwalk. Now it’s perhaps more educational than theme park, but Aquarena Springs is still a fun little stop [...]

The Texas Lice Squad

  Have you ever heard of The Texas Lice Squad?  Well, neither had I until yesterday.  After noticing my kid scratching lightly at the crown of her head, I did a quick check.  ”Please, please, please don’t be…”  Crap.  You want to talk heeby-jeebies?  I got the heeby jeebies.  There weren’t a whole lot of nits, [...]

Absolutely mortified

Have your kids ever said something, public or private, that is just absolutely mortifying?  I’ve felt the occasional embarrassment when my little guy pops his head underneath the bathroom stall to have a little “chat” with the person one over.  ”Did you make a big poopie or a little poopie?”  Most of those I can laugh off, [...]

All Things Kids (Georgetown)

Kudos to All Things Kids in Georgetown for many, many reasons.  This store could just as easily be renamed “The Thinking Child’s Store” where every toy for sale has been carefully selected for the explicit purpose of stimulating a young mind.  Five years ago when I started taking my daughter out and about, I said [...]

Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park (Cedar Park)

Update: Angela in the comments (see below) said that kids under 7, with someone 12 years and up who has paid admission, may enter the otherwise restricted areas.  Had I known this, I would have happily paid admission to let my kids play everywhere, but I still would love it if there were an hour [...]

Inner Space Cavern (Georgetown)

When it’s over 100 degrees outside and the pool is getting old, why not find a way 50+ feet below ground to stay cool?  That’s just what we did.  Off to Inner Space we went with friends!  This was the first “spelunking” expedition for our kids, and probably the third time that hubby and I [...]

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