Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a native Texan and stay at home mom to a 3-year-old human hurricane in pigtails and a 1-year-old son who is currently jockeying for the title of world’s biggest mama’s boy. She has been married to her husband, who lives in perpetual denial of the fact that he is, in fact, a Yankee, for eight long (and wonderful!) years. Together they have renovated a historical home with their own little hands (never again), braved the winters of New York (and decided they’d rather not), and discovered a profound and binding love of travel (travel without the children, that is). They currently reside in Fair Oaks Ranch where they are surrounded by family and deer.
Perspectives on Parenting: Why being a stay-at-home mom is best for me
Motherhood comes with a host of choices to make about what is best for you and your family. We at Alamo City Moms Blog have a variety of moms who want to embrace these choices...
Surviving Your Spouse’s Business Trip: Tips from the Trenches
I am often bewildered by people’s Facebook status updates, but one particular variety of announcement used to cause me particular consternation. I’d read comments from my friends like “counting down the hours until my...
Simple Summer Recipe: Mama’s Tired, but this Chicken Ain’t!
I’ll be the first to admit that the thought of eating baked chicken doesn't exactly fire my panties up (thank you, Phil Robertson, for this invaluable contribution to my daily lexicon). I grew up eating...
A Field Guide to Satisfying Your Postnatal Sweet Tooth in Boerne
Here’s a fact that is now as foreign to me as it is true: I used to eat salads for dessert. Sometimes I would even round out my meal with an extra serving of...
So You Want Me to Nurse in a Dressing Room. Really Target?!?
I have a bone to pick with Target, so brace yourselves pussycats because it’s about to get real. But first I have to confess that to think anything negative about Target - much less...
Confessions from a Consignment Sale Junkie
Ok - I admit it. I have a problem. I absolutely, positively cannot stand the thought of paying full retail price. For anything. I am a Maxxinista, a Recessionista, a Cheapo-ista. It just pains...
Watch Your Language Young Lady! (I’m looking at you, Mom)
Spring has sprung, and since we have been subjected to a particularly brutal (by San Antonio standards anyway) winter this year, we are all breathing a collective sigh of relief. And as you inhale...
Mommy’s Little Bag of Tricks or My Life as Told through Products
In what can only be interpreted as a clear indication that I have way too much free time on my hands and/or that some of my cerebral matter is not being adequately utilized, I...
The Good, The Bad, The Lesson Learned: Date Night 2014
Do you remember back when you used to go on a date and simply call it “going on a date” instead of declaring it a “date night”, like it is some monumental boulder perched...
Let’s Get the Wiggles Out: A Survival Guide to Open Gym for Toddlers
We’ve all been there - it’s 7 a.m. and you’re staring down the remarkably long and dark barrel of a day with no scheduled activity for your toddler. When you find yourself confronting conditions...
Don’t Blink: Easy Journaling Through Your Children’s Lives
Don’t blink...as moms, we’re no stranger to this message. Our parents and friends advise us to enjoy every minute of our children’s seemingly sloth-like development because it goes “so fast.” Kenny Chesney reminds us...