Tots of Art-VMFA

Ages 14–30 months, accompanied by an adult Select Thursdays, 11 am–noon Art Education Center Enrollment limit: 12 toddlers $10 (VMFA members $8) per toddler/adult pair, advance registration required Captivate your toddler and encourage budding curiosity! Tots of Art fosters growth in mobility and introduces young artists to new sensory and fine motor experiences that only […]

Move With Me at Cartwheels and Coffee

Every Wednesday at 10:00 am Clap your hands, stomp your feet, move your bodies to the beat! Miss Sarah Ruppel, of the Richmond Ballet, leads a creative and energetic movement time for your little dancers every Wednesday at 10. Strap on your dancing shoes and get ready to move! Cost: FREE with admission

Time to Sing at Cartwheels and Coffee

Every Tuesday at 10:00 am You and your little ones will enjoy singing, dancing, and making music together. Kids will use simple instruments and movements to learn new songs as well as sing along with their favorites! Cost: FREE with admission

Move With Me at Cartwheels and Coffee

Every Wednesday at 10:00 am Clap your hands, stomp your feet, move your bodies to the beat! Miss Sarah Ruppel, of the Richmond Ballet, leads a creative and energetic movement time for your little dancers every Wednesday at 10. Strap on your dancing shoes and get ready to move! Cost: FREE with admission

Rules of a Beach Trip with Little Ones

Beach Babies... actually in the ocean!  I didn't bribe them for this picture.

Greetings from Myrtle Beach! Like us, you may be soon heading to (or recently returned from) some time at the beach with your family.  Seriously, we are really having a great time in spite of with our six- and four-year-old!  I am sitting here on our balcony, enjoying my cup of coffee and listening to […]

Latch On For World Breastfeeding Week

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Richmonders have two options to show support for breastfeeding mothers around the world on August 2nd, 2014. If every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breastfeeding up to the age of two years, about 800,000 child lives would be saved […]

What Can You Not Get Rid Of?

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This past two weeks, we went through a really unfortunate series of events that involved us putting an offer on a house, putting our own house up for sale, and then going in reverse.  The house deal fell through, and we are deciding to be happy where we are.  Whew.  Now I can breathe again. In […]

Collecting Lasts

The day we moved to Richmond with a 9 month old, and the day we moved away, with a four year old and one on the way.

We came to Richmond alone, miles away from family and friends. As my husband and I unloaded our then nine-month-old-son and two cats into our newly purchased empty home, we looked at each other with a bit of trepidation and asked, “What now?”   We were here for my husband’s medical residency at VCU. We […]

Will Kate Hall Stumble and Fall?

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As moms, we all know how difficult it must be to experience the premature birth of a baby. The anxiety is overwhelming as tiny babies struggle to breathe and thrive. Premature babies are most often born due to idiopathic labor – or ‘labor with no known cause’. Stefanie and Karl Smith, who founded The Jack […]

Thank You, Richmondmom.com!

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Dear Richmondmom.com family, A little over three years ago, we were new here in Richmond.  I stumbled across Richmondmom.com and became hooked on the Facebook page and the newsletter, especially the Real Richmond Parents articles.  Soon I got the guts to submit an article myself and heard back very quickly from Kate Hall, who accepted […]