Flagstaff Mom Collective

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Make + Take Workshop at Salt + Peak!   We love Salt + Peak Boutique, and when we started brainstorming ideas for an event - a workshop quickly became our favorite! Every...

Have you ever heard of an escape room? It is a mystery story come to life where you are the detective. You have 60 minutes to find and decipher clues and escape the room. This interactive experience requires you to...

Tis the season of loads of work for moms! We may not be able to have the same Christmas magic for ourselves as we did pre-kids, but it is pretty dang magical to watch them tear those presents open...

Thank you for being a part of our community! We value you and want to get to know you better! As we hope all of our readers know, feedback from local Flagstaff area moms is VERY important to us. We...

I hear so much about the terrible twos and about how hard life is after bringing home a newborn, but there's a stage hidden in between there that I don't hear too much about - and it surprises me....

  Some winter day, far in the future, my son will sit around and talk about what the holidays were like when he was a child. I'm a sucker for nostalgia. One of my favorite quotes is from The Wonder...

When I think of the word tradition, I can't help but think of the song from "Fiddler On the Roof."  My ancestors on my maternal side came from that very same region that the Jews in the musical were...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Date Night at Drinking Horn Meadery! We were thrilled to host a Date Night with Drinking Horn Meadery. We've seen their bottles around town at Whole Foods and Majestic Marketplace and we sampled some...

*This post is in partnership with Tinkergarten. All experiences and opinions are my own.  If you've visited Foxglenn Park on a Wednesday morning this Fall, you may have seen a group of parents and children exploring and playing. Maybe you've...

Picking a name for your new baby! Yes, the most exciting, stressful, trying part of pregnancy (besides squeezing a baby out of your vagina). But just like labor, you will have to do it anyway. Everyone has a say in your...

  Finding balance? There is always so much talk of whether stay at home moms or working moms have it easier, better, or whatever. Having been both, my opinion is that being a mom can be challenging no matter what....

As winter approaches I always start thinking about birthday parties, since my boys were born in November and December! We have had a lot of birthday parties in Flagstaff and I am always looking for new ideas. Here is...

When I became pregnant with Suzanne, my husband asked me when we could tell people. "Whenever we want", I said. "No, I mean, when is it safe to tell people." Safe. He meant because 80% of miscarriages happen in the first trimester.  I would...