When I was a teenager I barrel raced competitively. This meant crisscrossing the state for something like 30 weekends a year. Most of those trips were spent sitting next to my dad in the front seat of our Ford F250, pulling a horse trailer containing my beloved Tru and Blackjack, …

Moms of the world.  You work so damn hard. Like working in a coal mine hard (and I would know because once upon a time, I did, in fact, work at a coal mine). You do things that no one knows about. You’ve seen things that might make a weaker …

If you had to think of a message to send to the world, what would it be? I pondered this over and over again in the last few weeks after I was invited to take part in the Dear World Live event put on by the Reynolds School of Journalism …

If you’ve been hanging around Reno Moms Blog long enough, you know that we’re a group of ladies who like to cook…and eat. In fact, we’ve spent a good amount of time writing about our favorite recipes, meal planning and freezer cooking (and don’t get us wrong, we love a good …

A week ago I returned from a three day business trip and came home to an exhausted husband and my two sweet babies. I had missed them, but returning home after being away is always an adjustment. My husband grilled a tasty dinner and we fell into our nightly routine. …

Last week my husband and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary. We’re not breaking any record books yet, but in the last four years we have done a whole lot of living. Two houses. Two babies. New jobs and supporting two careers. A lot of change in a short amount …

Dear Reno Moms, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A year ago we set off on this adventure of creating a collaborative blog featuring local moms. We didn’t know if it would work. We didn’t know if anyone would read this blog, but we knew that when it came to being …

The U.S. has the sixth highest rate of premature birth in the world. Let me repeat that: The U.S. has the sixth highest rate of premature birth in the entire WORLD. We follow India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Nevada premature birth rates rank as one of the worst in …

Last week was National Immunization Week and I was invited to sit on a panel at the Immunize Nevada screening of an amazing short film made by high school students in California. The film, Invisible Threat,  is incredibly powerful and made with a journalistic integrity that we don’t see a lot of …

On the spectrum of hippie-granola-crunchy moms I fall somewhere in the middle. I’ve had doulas and midwifes at both of my children’s all natural births. I breastfeed. I adore Ina May. I practice hypnobirthing. I try to make my 3 year old do yoga with me. I  balance that out …