Chattanooga Moms

As a semi-only child (one brother seven years older) with parents too wise/lazy to over schedule my childhood with activities, I'm someone who likes having free time. The way I spend that free time is usually completely worthless (once...

It's 6am on Friday morning and I sneak out of my bed to avoid waking the passed out three year old, who came up to my room a few hours earlier with complaints of a bad dream, needing water...

My love affair with thrift store shopping has been burning deep inside since I realized I could buy weird, soft, old t-shirts from Goodwill instead of "borrowing" them from friends or finding them in the lost and found. I've...

My sister and I always joke that our mom (a teacher, well-deserving of her three-month break) sent us to a Vacation Bible School every single week during the summer. It didn't matter if it was at a Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian church,...

It is every parent's dream for their children to eat their veggies! We hear it all the time, how we need to have them eat more veggies! It is a feat worth bragging about. Our daughter loves veggies! We have...

Summer is approaching, and you know what that means. It is festival season! There was a time in my life when I would be planning for my trip to Bonnaroo. Then I grew up, moved to the suburbs, had...

I learned the value and magic of the performing arts from a very young age. I started taking ballet when I was four. I appeared with my mother in my first opera at about the same age (as the...

If you're anything like me, you're constantly trying to find some new playground areas for your kids. We have our standards - Vandergriff Park in Hixson and White Oak Park close to our home - but a new playground...

Eek. I am cringing writing that title. If you have seen me out in public (okay, Walmart) in my baggy pants and husband's old sweatshirt, trying to run in and grab milk before my windows break from the screams...

Before having children, you know we all cringed when we heard a misbehaving child at a restaurant. The screaming, food-chucking and tantrum-throwing isn’t pretty and certainly isn’t conducive to a fine dining experience. The poor parents look frazzled and...