Children/Kids

As many parents discovered this week, snow days are fun until there's more than one of them. It's at that point, children become caged animals and no amount of movie watching or cookie baking will pacify them. So on Tuesday, while the rest of the Panhandle began to unearth itself from our massive snow, I made peace with the realization I would have to get dressed and that I would have actually go outside with my children who were, by that point, hopped up on a snow ice cream high. I even managed to capture a debilitating bout of brain freeze.

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After the historic blizzard that stormed through Amarillo this past week many Moms may be reevaluating how to stock their pantry so they can feed their families a nutrient-rich diet no matter what conditions may keep them from the grocery store.  A well-stocked pantry takes some thought and time to develop and perfect, but the end results will save you time, money and your health.

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If you have kids, then you know the battle of bedtime.  The kids fight you all the time and come up with convenient excuses on why they shouldn't go to bed, instead of just going to bed.  Have you ever had a child call 911 to avoid bedtime?

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As I snuggled up with my very sweet, very cuddly 4-year old son one evening, I wondered how children can have so many personalities throughout the day? He patted my hand and called me sweetie-pie, which as relationships between little boys and their moms often go, is just the way its supposed to be.

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The world's most popular cucumber and tomato, Bob and Larry are celebrating their birthday in a big way.  Veggie Tales Live!  Happy Birthday Bob and Larry will be live on Saturday, March 2nd at the Civic Center Auditorium.

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Multiple roles are sometimes difficult to juggle, but it is something that most moms today are very familiar with.  Mom, wife, girlfriend, daughter, sister, co-worker, employee, boss, student, friend, so much to do, so many people to please, and so little time! 

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You know how in the haste of of the hustle and bustle of life, you sometimes look for opportunities to just kind of skate by on a task? Well that one came back to bite me this week.

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I am a part of a dinner club.  The kind where we barely come up with a theme and no one dresses up for the night.  The kind where the moms and non moms come together and relax and try their hardest to laugh at the lives we lead.  Which we have found out isn’t too hard to achieve.

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For many of us, there is rarely a dull moment in motherhood. The currently popular “zombie craze” only adds to the madness for me. Like many children with autism, my son gets “stuck” on things that he likes.

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Valentine's Day a day to show your love.  Yes, that is all good and fine, but what do you do if you have a family.  Valentine's Day falls on a Thursday this year, in fact it is this Thursday.  However, most of us are moms and have kids.  So how do you celebrate Valentine's Day with the family?

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Friday's are fun and exciting because it means the weekend is here.  The only catch?  You have to get through the workday to get to the weekend.  Today I hope these videos help you make the workday fly. 

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One of the difficult things about Autism is that every child on the spectrum is so very different. I would like to think that the days are gone where people hear the word Autism and think of either Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” (a savant, which is relatively rare), or a nonverbal child standing in a corner banging his head against the wall. While both of these examples are quite real, they also represent the very extremes of the Autism spectrum, from very high to very low functioning. The larger percentage of children with Autism fall somewhere in between those two extremes, and my son is no exception.

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