Fairfield County Mom

Post and giveaway are sponsored by Omni Dallas but the opinions are our own. Thank you for supporting our sponsors. Back in October, the FC Moms Blog owners had the chance to spend the weekend in Dallas with 60+ other...

May 1st. Today would have been my mom's 70th birthday. I imagine we would have had a big party including all of her friends and family, with her spending most of her time being overjoyed by her only grandchild,...

From the day they're born, kids get seemingly endless streams of gifts from generous family members and friends. People put painstaking effort into choosing the perfect toys or keepsakes. And they just want to give you something that's perfect...

May is such a wonderful month for so many reasons! To list a few, flowers are blooming {thanks to April showers}, windows can be opened, the smell of BBQ is back in the air, and there are many great...

Did you know April is National Infertility Awareness Month? Are you surprised that it was established in 1989? I was when I learned this earlier this month. I remember watching the movie Baby Mama (2008) and thinking how funny...

(A letter to my son before he becomes a big brother) Dear Boden, Little one, you're no longer so little. And it all happened faster than I could prepare either one of us for it. As a stay at home mom,...

Personal Care - the list of items we need is endless. The lotions, creams, gels, masks . . . just thinking about the choices makes my head spin. Now add the element of greening your personal care. It seems impossible,...

My daughter loved her pacifier. In all honesty, so did I. The pacifier, lovingly nicknamed "ba," allowed us to make it through colic, sick days, a flight to and from California, teething and vaccines and taught her how to self...

I have to admit that this has been one of my favorite posts to write, since education is very close to my heart. Before you start to panic and think...UGH not another, "I-can-get-your-child-into-an-ivy-league-school," business, this is certainly not that. In fact, one...

I was never big on having children. I mean, there was a part of me that wanted them IN THE FUTURE, but a) it was never absolute, and b) I kept moving that “future” farther and farther in front...