Tips and Tricks

Ashley Smalley, MS, RD, LD, Dietician, Mercy Hospital When you're pregnant, you need to eat the right foods. After all, you're supporting a growing life. During pregnancy you'll need lots of extras. That includes extra protein, iron, calcium and folic acid. You’ll...

If you read my last post, you know things can get a little hectic at my house around the holidays.  And, although you might not be able to tell from my last post, I really do enjoy hosting Thanksgiving...

We are so excited by the amazing response we've gotten to our 1st Annual Iowa City Moms Blog's Readers' Choice Awards! We asked YOU, our lovely readers, to nominate your favorite local businesses in each category.  The businesses with...

Now that the fun of Summer has ended and Fall and settled in nicely, I have pleaded with myself to become more organized and LESS cluttered. One day, one drawer, one corner at a time. And today I started...

A few weeks back, I wrote my first post in what I am considering to be a brief, hopefully helpful "series" of child speech and language development. For more information on what you should see in your two-year-old, please...

Ask any mom what life is like, and you will likely hear one common answer start to emerge: busy. While very fulfilling, life as a mom brings a certain brand of crazy, exhausting, stressful, fall-into-bed-at-night-with-every-body-part-aching level of activity. Add...

You know when you log onto Pinterest and see all of those amazing bento box lunches and you roll your eyes thinking ‘Who in the world is spending so much time making a lunch that their kids have less...

Once school starts my fall/winter season pretty much goes like this . . . Then, I get to January and realize that not only am I exhausted but that I pretty much crabbed/yelled/sighed my way through the holiday . ....

Last time, I took you through the supplies you need to get started on canning, along with a healthy dose of inspiration for why canning is so awesome. This time, I’m taking you step by step through the easiest...

Hoover was dreamy. We first set eyes on each other just two months before our wedding day. He was big, tall, and stronger than the others.  He stood out from the crowd. He looked at me from across the...