Browsing all posts in February, 2010.
Share the Word About Free Tax Preparation Services
While we BirminghamMoms might be confident preparing our own taxes or consulting with a professional tax preparer, there are many Alabamians who forfeit hard-earned dollars by claiming their tax refund through a check cashing, refund loan, or similar service. As is always the [...]
Elle Decor Came to Birmingham
To BirminghamMom shelter magazine junkies, I hope you didn’t miss the feature on Birmingham in Elle Decor magazine’s Jan/Feb issue.
We’re used to being a praised in our hometown favorites, Southern Living and our dearly departed Southern Accents and Cottage Living. We can even empathize with Elle Decor since it recently lost its own [...]
Mom’s Map Quest: The Errand Circuit
Every BirminghamMom is familiar with the daily to-do list that she keeps crossing down only to add more entries in equal measure.
Seldom are our to-dos self-contained little tasks. Rather, they are loaded with complicating factors.
* Multi-step: Make kid’s well visit appointment three weeks out, send [...]
Read Across America Day March 2nd
Reading is so important to me that I feel sorry for the folks who never get lost in a good book. Is there anything better than the feeling that you’ve got to know what happens, yet you hate for the story to end? You sort [...]
A Shallow View of Olympic Uniforms
When I see a yellow blouse or dress, I always think of the warning a former work colleague received from her grandmother, a descendant of Old Mobile society: “Just remembuh, you’ve gotta be ray-ully pretty to weah yellah.”
I’ve decided this subtle advice against wearing [...]
Harry Potter and Modern Medicine at UAB
I’m always game for exploiting any feature that will give the kids some extra educational mileage. Thus I was interested to see the exhibit running through March 5th, 2010 at UAB’s Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences titled Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine.
It’s hard for a museum exhibit to [...]
Find: Children’s Books Featuring African-American Kids
Over lunch a fellow BirminghamMom casually mentioned what a hard time she had finding books that featured African-American characters for her young son. She pointed out that there are many books about famous and accomplished black historical figures or books about black history, but it’s much more difficult to identify [...]
Valentine’s Day Poem by an Eight-Year-Old
A favorite Valentine’s poem by an eight year old girl:
Valentine’s Day
I hate you so much
Too much love and all that stuff.
I hate you Valentine’s Day
OK?
Soon enough Valentine’s Day will become fraught with expectations and will likely alternate between heartbreak and euphoria. But for now it [...]
Saban has a Process and So Does Mom: Kids’ Laundry and Kitchen Duties
There’s a lot of talk these days about Nick Saban and his “process” for developing his team. The BCS national championship has sports writers deconstructing what he does to make the team successful. Well, though I don’t have an agent or a contract, I do have a [...]
Valentine Follies
As Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s striking to note that every man is an easy mark for jewelry stores, fragrance counters and lingerie shops. Florists happily reinforce the implicit message that you will be scorned for the rest of the year if you don’t bring gifts come February 14th.
Guys, this [...]