Iowa City Moms

Plans are well underway for our 11th annual Bloom: Mini Conference for Moms, and as always we are so excited for this event!  This year's Co-Hosts are University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Team Iowa Physical Therapy, and...

March Madness has arrived, and for our household that means non.stop. basketball.watching.  We know that it's the same for many of you and your families, too! As we cheer on our Hawkeyes in the Big Ten Tournament this weekend,...

Winters in Iowa are known to be long and cold and spring tends to be rainy and windy but that doesn’t mean your family has to stay cooped up until it’s nicer out. Little kids have lots of energy...

Welcome to the 2024 Iowa City Moms Summer Camp Guide! When school is out for the summer, parents need a safe place for their kids to learn, explore, make memories, and try new things. Of course, kids just want to...

As moms, we can often be really hard on ourselves.  We have a never ending to-do list, a million details to keep track of, so many schedules to juggle, and people to care for.  Most moms I know aren’t...

Heading to the hospital with kids for an inpatient stay can be super stressful, even if it is planned.  Our family recently had a short stay at The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.  We really are lucky...

It’s well into the new year, and one of the things that’s always on my goal list is to declutter and organize my home. The holidays are over, but I’m looking at all the stuff that accumulated or neglected....

I am one of those parents who takes many, many pictures and videos in an effort to capture life moments as they are happening. I don’t know how else to try and collect as much life as I can...

On Jan. 1, I said to myself, “This is my year.” I didn’t know why I believed that, but I wholeheartedly did. And do. The year has started out well. Lots of good things happening. But I got a phone...

For the last eight or nine years our family has been doing something different at the start of a new year.  Instead of making traditional goals or resolutions, we each pick a word for the year and we really...