Dec 13, 2012 | -, Crafts & Hobbies, Family Time, Holidays, Parenting & Family, Recreation
By TMoM Team Member Dani Luft I have a few talents, but being crafty is not really one of them. I am a little jealous of those moms who can sew dresses, make cute burp cloths, create angry bird sandwiches for their child’s lunch, or buy an old item at a yard sale and...
Dec 7, 2012 | -, Family Time, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Tweens & Teens
By Donna Small I love my children desperately. There are, however, days that I don’t like them very much. And while I feel confident anyone who has children understands and can empathize feeling that way, it may require a certain amount of explanation. My eldest...
Nov 28, 2012 | Family Time, Holidays, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Shelley H. Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to start planning for the holidays! There are a few special holiday events that have become annual traditions for my family. Around this time, I’m always checking my calendar to be sure I’ve allotted the time and...
Sep 1, 2012 | Family Time, For the Home, Local Resources, Parenting & Family, Recreation, Vacations & Weekend Trips
Let’s daydream a little. If you had the opportunity to own a vacation home, where would you choose? Would you hightail it to a mountain chalet or lay low at a beach bungalow? If you asked me this question last spring I would have quickly answered, “The...
Aug 5, 2012 | Family Time, From the Heart, Humor, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Marriage & Couples, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Jill Osborn Living at home with my parents to save some money for a house, wasn’t exactly how my husband and I pictured our lives when we got married, it does have it’s perks… especially since we have a toddler and I’m pregnant again. I thought I might share...
Jul 23, 2012 | Crafts & Hobbies, Family Time, Parenting & Family, Recreation
By Jessica Simmons, author of the blog Very Pinteresting With the heat wave this month, I’d love nothing more than to hibernate inside and enjoy the air conditioning, but my kids tend to balk at that suggestion. Now that my oldest son has left for sleep away camp, His...
Jul 22, 2012 | Crafts & Hobbies, Family Time, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Recreation
We all need some quite time during the long summer days. This is an idea that my mom used in her preschool classroom. She helped me set this up in my son’s room when he was younger and it worked wonders. Find a bookshelf or organizer similar to the one pictured. This...
Feb 27, 2012 | Family Time, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies, Raising Children
By Katie Reynolds After 18 fast years of parenting, we were given a do-over. As parents, I think we all wish for a do-over now and again – or maybe a rewind button, “wish I had the opportunity to handle that better.” Well at 43 years old – with four children from...
Feb 4, 2012 | Family Time, Food & Nutrition, Parenting & Family, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Lisa Witherspoon, author of www.thegoldenspoons.blogspot.com We often hear chefs like Rachael Ray and Emeril Lagasse talking about Cooking with Kids. In 2007, Disney-Pixar even released an animated movie called Ratatouille that was all about cooking. The main...
Dec 17, 2011 | Crafts & Hobbies, Family Time, Holidays, Parenting & Family, Recreation
By Jessica Simmons, author of the blog Very Pinteresting For years I did the typical “themed” Christmas tree. Every ornament and adornment for our tree was red or gold, and I only used white lights. I thought it served the purpose of being both festive and elegant....
Nov 14, 2011 | Family Time, Parenting & Family, Parks & Outdoor Activities, Recreation, Sports
By Jessica Tuttle, Membership Director at BRCC It’s hard to believe that the Holiday Season is almost here. Seems like yesterday, everyone was dusting off their clubs and getting ready for their golf game. Now we are putting our golf clubs away, getting out our...
Nov 5, 2011 | -, Family Time, Holidays, Local Events, Local Resources, Parenting & Family
It is that time of year again! Whether you have never visited Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights, or if you go every year, we have a surprise for you! It is the 20th anniversary, and there will be brand-new displays throughout your Festival of Lights journey. ...
Sep 29, 2011 | Entertaining, Family Time, Local Resources, Marriage & Couples, Moms & Dads, Non Profits, Parenting & Family, Recreation, Sports
It is that time of year again where the symphony season is just getting started. If you were reading our site last winter, you may remember my post saying I was one of those people who was originally very skeptical about the symphony. I had the typical stereotypes...
Jul 27, 2011 | Family Time, Local Resources, Non Profits, Parenting & Family
Victory Junction was founded in 2004 by Kyle and Pattie Petty in honor of their late son Adam, who believed from a young age that every child deserves the opportunity to celebrate being a kid. The year-round camp serves children ages six to 16 with chronic medical...
Jul 24, 2011 | Family Time, Local Resources, Non Profits, Parenting & Family
Summer is the perfect time of year to consider a volunteer project with your whole family. Not only can children learn valuable “working” skills and all about different organizations – as well as how these organizations fit within society – ...
Jun 16, 2011 | Family Time, Parenting & Family, Recreation, Vacations & Weekend Trips
By Guest Blogger Courtney Tucker Like many, I grew up coming to Myrtle Beach with my family. We spent many a summer running along the shore trying to catch seagulls – though we never did. When my parents bought their condominiums at Kingston Plantation we would...
Jun 10, 2011 | Children's Museums & Playhouses, Day Trips, Family Time, Local Resources, Parenting & Family, Recreation
Sponsored by Wet ‘N Wild Emerald Pointe If you have not yet been to Wet ‘N Wild Emerald Pointe, both you and your kids are missing out! Summer is just not complete unless my family has visited this waterpark at least once. You will feel like you are on a...
Jun 7, 2011 | Arts & Enrichment Activities, Family Time, Just for Dads, Moms & Dads, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups, Parenting & Family, Recreation
Sponsored by the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina; written by Andrew Plyler, Director of Adventure Guides YMCA Adventure Guides and Princesses is all about “fostering the father/child relationship.” No gift you give your son or daughter will mean as much as the time...
Jun 2, 2011 | Family Time, Local Resources, Non Profits, Parenting & Family
Sponsored by Riverwood Therapeutic Riding Center, written by Bree Hendrick When you first make your way down the winding gravel drive located just outside Winston-Salem’s city limits in Tobaccoville, the farm may look similar to many others you have seen before. ...
May 13, 2011 | -, Family Time, From the Heart
I come from a small family. I have one brother and just eight first cousins. We all lived in New Jersey growing up – including my grandparents on both sides – so we were able to see each other often. We don’t all get together as much as we’d...
Mar 11, 2011 | Education, Elementary, Family Time, Homeschooling, Parenting & Family
Have you heard of Africam? This is the coolest thing to share with your kids! I volunteered in my son’s classroom a few weeks ago and they were studying Kenya. As we worked on some different activities, his teacher had this website set up on the big screen in...
Feb 14, 2011 | -, Family Time, Holidays, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
Ahhh … Valentine’s Day. More often than not, you hear people exclaim, “I hate Valentine’s Day” or “We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day” or “It was invented by greeting card companies as a way to make...
Feb 4, 2011 | Birthday Parties, Family Time, Gift Ideas & Gift Shoppes, Local Resources, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Shopping
By Guest Blogger Stefanie Moore My kids are like a lot of kids, they want for nothing. They have toys in the playroom and in their bedrooms and in the living room. Every toy bin is overflowing. They are fortunate to have everything they need and more. Every year our...
Jan 29, 2011 | -, Family Time, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
Restless child says to mother, “Mom, can I play some Wii?” Mom looks at child with weary eyes, thinks about her growing piles of laundry, dishes in the sink, and unanswered emails. She replies, “Well, OK but just for 15 minutes.” Mom glances at...
Dec 2, 2010 | -, Day Trips, Family Time, Holidays, Parenting & Family, Recreation
By Leigh Ann McDonald Woodruff Despite the fact that I have lived in North Carolina (a state that leads in production of Christmas trees, particularly the popular Fraser fir) my whole life, I had never actually been to a Christmas tree farm for the “choose and cut”...
Nov 6, 2010 | -, Adult Health & Wellness, Family Time, Health, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Recreation
By Kelly Melang, fitness enthusiast and blogger for Forsyth Family magazine With the era of computer games, video games and the excuses they provide for a sedentary lifestyle, create the desire to exercise in your children by setting the example. Challenge them to...
Nov 5, 2010 | -, Family Time, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pop Culture, Books & Movies, Raising Children, Recreation
This time last year my daughter (who was five) was belting out the words to “Connected” (from Barbie’s Diamond Castle soundtrack) and “Part of Your World” (from the Little Mermaid soundtrack), plus other similar tunes. She sang the lyrics ad nauseum. In the car, in...
Oct 18, 2010 | Family Time, Just for Moms, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Parks & Outdoor Activities, Recreation
By Katie Moosbrugger In my house growing up, if you weren’t playing a sport full-time then you were watching and cheering one either on TV or on the side-lines. We were a pretty athletic family – and I guess a little competitive too – but it was the basis of my...
Oct 15, 2010 | -, Birthday Parties, Family Time, Local Resources, Tweens & Teens
By Amy Takacs My oldest daughter, Natalie, turned 10 this year. A decade of throwing kid birthday parties already under my belt, my goal was to come up with a celebration fit for a gaggle of tweens. We’ve done the park, bouncy tent in the backyard (twice), Children’s...
Oct 11, 2010 | Family Time, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Rachel Hoeing One day when I asked my daughter to do something that she wasn’t too crazy about doing, she looked at me and replied with a bit of sass, “I’d Rather Stick Pins in My Eyeballs.” You might be thinking. “Oh, she is going through the teenager attitude...
