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I still wear my retainer at night
I had braces for three and a half years. Three and a half torturous, awkward, often painful, but very necessary years. It began as a junior in high school and finally ended, at my insistence, the summer before my sophomore year at BYU. There was major surgery involved, more orthodontic ...
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Sleep Tight Sleeping Beauty
Dear Prince Charming, Do not lean over my sleeping body.   Take those princely lips and run along.   Do not dare plant them anywhere near my reposed face.   Can’t you see that I am finally catching up on my sleep?    Why don’t you go away, fight some dragons ...
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Really? In this day and age?
My son and I are driving along today, happily singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as I see a man going for a walk with a stroller. It was a double stroller that looked really cool. That's actually what got my attention at first. Oh how times change! It was the stroller, not the dude, ...
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Behind the Scenes at the Snow Day
Snow is one of those things that seems like it should be more fun with kids. Like holidays, wrapping paper, or the beach. I mean, what better way to get your inner child on than to climb into five thousand pieces of clothing and head out for a day (or *cough* thirty minutes *cough*) of ...
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Food for Thought
The other night I went to hear the "Erin Brockovich of Food" speak. She was visiting our valley to talk about her new book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About it . The information she shared was jaw-dropping. Organic food is a passion of mine. I ...
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It's a schedule, not a chore chart
You may know by now that I am the mother of four children ranging in age from 12 to 2. While parenting children with a gap between ages has its difficulties (I wrote a whole post about it on I Never Grew Up ), it does have its benefits. The two oldest are able, though often unwilling, to help ...
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The Stuff You Don't Need
There I was, 9 months swollen and frantically searching the isles of Babies R Us, bumping all products, all people in my path.   If I’d heard of it and hadn’t gotten it at a shower, I threw it in the cart.   Tubes of nipple cream?   I’ll take five.   Butt-wipe ...
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SV Moms Group Twitter Party - Sunday, November 15th from 4-7pm PST
SV MOMS GROUP TWITTER PARTY!!! Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 4 - 7 pm PST! Join us as we give TONS of great stuff away - including a HP Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web All-in-One printer, a single-serve TASSIMO hot beverage system from Bosch, tickets to the fabulous Wicked musical ...
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The third time is definitely not a charm
This is the third time that my husband has been in complete and total control of my son's care. Don't get me wrong, he's watched him during the occasional mani/pedi appointments, hair cuts, massages and quarterly girls night out. But he's been Mr. Mom since 10:30 Friday morning. I woke up ...
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TV Time Trouble
I am a hypocrite. It's true. A few months ago I wrote this post about Toddler TV time and it's relation to ADD. Did you know that their chances of having ADD and trouble in school increases nearly 10 percent for every hour of television they watch before age three?! I had all the good ...
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Explaining the Ft. Hood Tragedy
Cross posted from our sister blog, DC Metro Moms Blog. I grew up in a military family.  My father was a career Air Force officer, as was his father.  My brother joined the Army a few years after high school and served two tours in Bosnia before he got out.  Of course then ...
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Raising Grown-ups
At bathtime last night, the kids were goofing around as I dried them off and got their teeth brushed and the ear wax rubbed out of their ears. First four-year-old Helen and then, reluctantly, eight-year-old Silas asked for an extra clean q-tip to suck on, something they've always done for ...
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H1N1 Vaccinations and the Ensuing Paranoia
I waited in line bright and early this morning to get three tickets. I wish I could say they were for some fantastic concert or at least a good movie but I can't. No, instead they were tickets for the H1N1 vaccine, tickets I have to return on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. to redeem for 1 ...
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A Day Out Shopping with the Terrible Twos
I'm sure you have all done it. Traipsed out with gleeful ideas of the errands you were going to run and the angel your toddler was going to be while you doled out your coupons and debated between brands. Then, reality sets in and you find yourself struggling with one arm around your wriggling ...
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Mmmmm, Math
Numbers don’t lie.   And at the beginning of November numbers mean one thing: candy.   Dual mountains of trick- or-treating candy piled sky-high before each of my ecstatic children.   Thanks to the genius of their teachers, these piles will not just be consumed en route to ...
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Remembering Our Seniors on Halloween Night
Remembering Our Seniors on Halloween Night
rockymountainmomsblog.com — Walking in the glow of the full moon, I could hear my daughter and her friend giggle and laugh as they rang the doorbell of the brick ranch. I was out with my neighbor on the second phase of trick or treating with our two older daughters. We knew ... (more) Remembering Our Seniors on Halloween Night
The Greatest Day of the Year
My daughter asked what we would be doing on Halloween morning. I told her I would be taking her little brother to get his costume. She told me, "Mom, that's terrible. You're fired!" I admit it. I am a procrastinator and I really don't get all that excited about Halloween. I make sure my kids ...
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Maybe October Is Too Early For a Blizzard
Ask anyone to give you a word that first comes to mind when they think of Colorado and the majority of the time they will answer snow. To be quite honest, I've lived in Colorado for fifteen years and my first response would be sunshine. We have over 300 hundred days of sunshine a year. For ...
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Martha Stewart called: She wants her spatula back
Twice a year, when my kids' birthdays roll around, I ponder my options: bake a cake from scratch or a box mix? Three-and-a-half years ago, this never would have been a debate. But then again, I lived at sea level and didn't know or understand the havoc that high altitude can wreak on ...
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Before you criticize your child, ask yourself this question
I am not the perfect mother, which I'm sure you've already figure out if you've read any of my past Rocky Mountain Moms Blog posts. I don't profess to be the perfect mother but I do know areas in which I could—and should—improve and am trying to work on them one baby step at a time. (I ...
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