Lately I've been thinking about the "olden days" when women spent all day preparing meals, washing dishes by hand, washing their family's laundry by hand and hanging it out to dry, and sewing their own clothes. How did they...
These fictional women feel so real. Encanto is a love letter to women everywhere. And we love them right back.
Forget episodes of Sex and the City. So long Dateline and CSI-Miami. Your free TV time is now probably filled up with TV shows your kids like watching. Ahhhh... kids TV shows. We love them, we hate them. We...
Libraries are an essential part of our communities, wonderful for all the access they give people in terms of knowledge, support, and resources. But the thing is…if you’re a book lover - like me! - you know there is...
As I’m sure many of you have heard, Facebook will soon be changing the way they organize the News Feed for users. This means that content from pages {like Houston Moms Blog} will be less visible to our followers.
We view...
National Family Literacy Month
This year in November, most of us are thinking among other things about the election and Thanksgiving; however, a lesser known albeit important event, that frankly I am glad to focus on right now, is National...
I know it's February and a "Best of 2014" list should have been posted earlier than this, but here's the truth :: my nose was stuck in a book. Or six books. So I'm not sorry at all. Not...
I was born in 1979 and am a proud member of the sandwich generation known as the Xennials {they also call us the Oregon Trail generation}. Xennials are those of us born between 1977 and 1983. We’re not quite...
It was a Saturday morning, and I had just gotten my 1 year old down for an early nap. Exhausted, I flopped myself down on the couch with a book and my breakfast, hoping to get a little break....
Do your kids light up when playing Roblox or Minecraft? Do they marvel at the idea of building robots or flying drones? Kids are becoming expert users of technology at younger and younger ages. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if...
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Cinco de Mayo in Houston: Let’s Fiesta!
Growing up in Texas, I am ashamed to say that I most often associated the holiday of Cinco de Mayo with eating Tex Mex,...
