Browsing all posts in November, 2009.

Week Before Thanksgiving Best Time for Santa Photos

It’s time to bust open a time-saving tip for the good of moms everywhere and share that late November is the best time to see Santa.
See, Santa doesn’t just set up his North Pole photo opportunity on the day after Thanksgiving. In most of the places he [...]

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Anyone who has ever had pregnancy brain can only chuckle self-consciously at this “checklist” posted inside Butch Cassidy’s, a burger joint in Mobile. Maybe the second column of the list would have been really funny, even preposterous, before kids, but now you know that it does indeed take a checklist [...]

Find: Artist’s Sketch Based on Your Photo

I recently received an ad for a beautiful oil portrait and the price underneath it caught my eye – $1250. Only then I realized it was $1250 off of the portrait price. And while certainly there are some BirminghamMoms who will sacrifice to own such a [...]

Make a Hometown Memory: Veterans Day Parade

There’s no finer way to honor Veterans than with a parade, and if you’re a BirminghamMom, you owe it to yourself and your kids to experience our local Veterans Day parade that is the nation’s oldest. Raymond Weeks, a Birmingham veteran, initiated the first celebration [...]

Family Weekend: Moss Rock Festival in Hoover

The Moss Rock Festival at The Preserve in Hoover is a perfect fall afternoon for the family. The setting is an architecturally planned community surrounded by tall trees and soft, picnic-blanket turf right down its center axis. It’s here that musicians will play and kids will gallop and you can just pause to enjoy [...]