About Rocky Mountain Moms Blog
Rocky Mountain Moms Blog is a member of the Silicon Valley Moms Group. Other blogs in the group include Silicon Valley Moms Blog, DC Metro Moms Blog , New York City Moms Blog, Chicago Moms Blog, Los Angeles Moms Blog, 50-Something Moms Blog and New Jersey Moms Blog. Soon to launch: MidWest Moms Blog, Pacific North West Moms Blog and Philadelphia Moms Blog.
Come Meet The Rocky Mountain Moms Blog Contributors (more to come...)!
Aviva is very excited to be the first contributing member to Rocky Mountain
Moms Blog! How she went from living in Broomfield,CO, collecting money
from medical insurance companies to living in Loveland, blogging about
anything and everything parenting is a very odd, completely disjointed
story with no obvious rhyme or reason.
Suffice it to say, when Aviva isn’t blogging over at Rocky Mountain Moms Blog, she is singing and dancing as a member, script writer, choreographer and Stage Director with Loveland Choral Society
. Aviva loves it when she can go to the Rialto Theatre and bark out
directions to people who actually listen to her (most of the time).
Aviva also has a less bossy side. She is a certified parent educator
and child development specialist who built and developed the
Loveland/Berthoud Parents as Teachers (PAT) program, helped establish the Har Shalom Preschool, and has been known to make obscene phone calls help at her husband's office when not schlepping a child to high school, middle School or elementary School.
Aviva is an author of the award winning book “Mommy Guilt: Learn To Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most and Raise Happier Kids" and Spanish edition "Mama Culpable." Lately, Aviva spends all of her free time (between midnight and 3 AM) hammering at her keyboard attempting to start finish another book with Devra. Aviva and Devra
also travel the world together encouraging and empowering anyone and
everyone to enjoy parenthood as much as possible. Aviva is a featured
expert on PBSParents.Org.
Aviva's commentary can be found in The Boston Globe, Parenting
Magazine, and BabyCenter as well as many other impressive places which
do not require she drive, write a script, or give any directions what
so ever to get there.
Brie found a diamond in the rough in college: her now husband Luke. After many years of distance and countless foreign adventures together, the two became parents in August 2009 to sweet Cora Rose. When she is not catching up from early mommy-hood sleep deprivation, Brie can be found making light of things on her blog: Brie's Blunderings.
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Once upon a time Daphne moved to Colorado. Then she moved back to
NY. Then
(because figuring out where you belong is really hard) she moved back
to Colorado, which she now calls home along with her husband
of 10 years and their two daughters, Kira and Acadia.
Daphne gave up life as a hospital executive with
nary a backwards glance, and now spends her days shmearing peanut
butter, driving to
swimming lessons, and fielding pop-quizzes from her 5- and 7-year olds
on such wide-ranging topics as politics, religion and anatomy. She has
published articles in Mother Verse
and Earnshaw’s magazines and is a contributing writer at The Mama Bird Diaries. With just five extra hours a day she swears
she could finish her novel, become more active at the kids’ school and achieve
inner peace.
Daphne is trying to save the world, but marching the family down the green path isn’t always easy. She chronicles her attempts, the successes and failures, at her site A Greener Biener.
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Back in August of 1994, Denise packed her bags, loaded up her car to
the gills, waved goodbye to her native New York and headed west. Fast
forward to fifteen years later, she married the guy that had the
courage to tour around the country with her, earned a teaching degree,
gave birth to two beautiful daughters, and couldn't imagine calling any
place other than Colorado home.
Today Denise stays at home with her girls and finds herself dabbling in just about everything from baking to hiking to Graduate School at the University of Colorado. While her hubby is off chasing snow for his job, you can find the girls seeking out some new adventure daily. For a glimpse into her life, stop by EatPlayLove where Denise has been tinkering around her personal blog since 2007.
Emily Hill records most of her ramblings on freshly baked, though she's set to launch a new site, is this REALLY my life?, on January 1, 2010. She is a contributing editor for Boutique Café, SassyScoops.com and is one of the newest bloggers for Rocky Mountain Moms Blog, a sister site of Silicon Valley Moms Blog. You can also find her guest posting on sites like TodaysMama, Make and Takes, Mom It Forward, I Never Grew Up and petit elefant. Hand-picked for her writing style (less a style and more the ramblings of a mom trying to hold on to her sanity), she entertains readers with her personal take on everything from local business to motherhood to the latest must-have products for mom and baby.
Just before launching georgie tees, a business she started with a girlfriend in 2005, Emily worked for The LoveSac Corporation as their Communications Manager, where she thoroughly enjoyed writing press releases for a company with a name like LoveSac. Emily has since used those same press-release-writing skills as a freelance writer for a variety of companies including YouCanMakeThis.com, Rain, Cheeky & Swank and Armed Work Wear. Though Emily was born and raised in California she is braving the frigid winters in Sandy, Utah with her husband and four children.
In spite of that fact, she soldiers on in the quest to conquer her version of domesticity next to Paul, her slightly shorter husband, their toddler son, and a dumb dog named Gus.
Her life is good and you can read more about it on her blog "My Life as a Kalli."
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After a year and a half of traveling I-70 to see one another, Mandi moved
from Kansas City to Denver in 2004 to be with her now husband, Bill
(and to enjoy good hair days). She spent her pre-Mommy days
successfully selling radio and internet advertising for several
national and local companies. For many years Mandi rescued dogs and
fostered them until they found homes. That's how they ended up with
Baxter, a Beagle/Dachschund mix who has no use for people, and Cosmo, a
Golden Retreiver who will offer his paw to anyone in the vicinity.
Mandi
and Bill moved to a wonderful neighborhood in June 2007 where it
appeared that strollers and Golden Retrievers were mandatory. Two
months later they found out they were having a baby (they already had
the Golden), so they've been allowed to stay in the neighborhood. Now
they've proudly become "those" people and are in love with their son and their neighborhood.
Mandi's days are happily spent at home with their son, cleaning up drops of milk on the floor from the launching of sippie cups. She also sells spatulas for The Pampered Chef while trying to come up with the SAHM idea into the next million dollar business.
In her 17 years in Colorado, Melospiza has passed through several incarnations (although she's no closer to enlightenment, alas)--wildlife technician, house cleaner, lab rat, grad student, mom. After spending the past year helping kids Silas (born 2001) and Helen (born 2004) adjust to our new life in South Suburban Denver, she recently returned to full-time work. Melospiza also writes at Melospiza.
Michelle is a Colorado native who enjoys the sunshine and refrains
from the skiing. After following a number of career paths, including
education, advertising and administration, she and her husband,
Steven, settled in a rural community to run the family hardware
business and to raise their family, daughter Brooke, age thirteen and
son Joshua, age ten.
When she isn't volunteering for the youth wrestling and baseball programs or serving on one of the numerous comittees to which she belongs, Michelle enjoys photography, Pilates, cooking long and complicated recipes, and writing. She can be found most days at Ms. Congeniality were she ponders the meaning of life, wonders at the elusive mind of the teenage girl and boggles at the antics of a boy who can take an hour-long shower and still not manage to wash his own hair.
After seeing the
world greater United States as a
flight attendant, Michelle B. settled down with Prince Computer Geek and tied the
eternal knot. Five years later, after a stint in Market Research and spending
millions of other people’s dollars as an Advertising Media Buyer, she now spends
her days as a SAHM chasing the skinniest 2-year old boy you’ll ever meet (or I
guess probably won’t meet).
Besides, hunting around for bargains, obsessively snapping mediocre pictures, and catching skinny mini before he can shimmy his way out of the shopping cart, she can be found blogging on A Little Tipsy. No, she is not drunk, just a little clumsy. But, she shares a laundry load of creative tips and ideas to spice up life as a SAHM.
Natalie lives in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado with her
husband and two sons. When she's not trying to bake at high altitude,
she's trying to control her life and her hair at How Can I Control My Life if I Can't Control My Hair?
Suzanne Bastien is Crunchy Green Mom, a single mom to six amazing children ranging in age between 1 and 17 years.
Juggling high school age children, a full time job with a local school district, a dating
life to a wonderful man and his 5 year old son, blogging and managing to sneak
in a work out and sleep has kept this mom on her toes for years.
A transplant from her native Texas, having vowed never to leave her new home in Colorado, she fell in love with the horizon of the mountains. Want to know how to find cleaner hair dyes? Make up that is natural and good for you? Or perhaps want to know how well plates made out of leaves work? She’s the one to ask. Six kids, two doves, a family trying to leave behind less of a footprint, and more of a memory! She can be found on Twitter and most everywhere else as Crunchy Green Mom.
The Co-Founding Team:
PARTNER - SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP & CO-FOUNDER: Jill Asher is the co-founder of Silicon Valley Moms Group. The idea came to Jill over two years ago (March 2006) to start Silicon Valley Moms Blog, after she finished her one year "Presidency" of PAMP.
After inviting friend after friend to join this "crazy idea" that moms
would want to write about parenting experiences in their regional area,
Jill has watched Silicon Valley Moms Group blossom into over nine collaborative blogging communities.
By far, her biggest challenge and greatest joy is motherhood. Jill and her husband are the proud parents of two elementary school aged daughters. Jill admits that she is NOT A PERFECT PARENT and fears her daughter's teenage years. Her girls can be heard running around the house screaming, "Mommy is blogging again!" and she needs to bribe from time to time them with treats. Is she allowed to admit that? On the bright side, Jill really digs living in Silicon Valley and tries her best to blend in, praying that no one will hear her "New Jersey accent". Unless, of course, she is royally upset.
Jill handles PR, Marketing, Business Development and outreach for this collaborative community.
Beth Blecherman (Chief Technology Mom) is a techie turned blogger mom who is in charge of blogging technology and development for the Silicon Valley Moms Group
network. She also works on the outreach/development to obtain new
bloggers and organizing events for the network. Beth started her
career in application development, then system auditing and her last
role was Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. Beth's personal blog is on tips, tricks, and discussions about parents use of technology for their families (Techmamas). When not blogging, she can be found on Twitter, Facebook and tooling around other new online social networking sites...
MANAGING MEMBER, SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP: Tekla S. Nee,
a cofounder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group, serves as editor-in-chief
and CFO for the network of blogs. She has been writing about parenting
for more than 25 years for magazines like Parenting, BabyTalk, Working Woman, Special Reports: Family, and Better Health and Living. She blogged for five years before there was such a word, writing a weekly column about about her life with three kids for the Palo Alto Daily News. She's published three books, The Mommy Rescue Guide First Year; The Mommy Zone: Tales from the Trenches of Parenthood; and The Everything Baby's First Year Book (also published in Russian and Chinese).
And that's just in her spare time, during the day, she masquerades as a
mild-mannered technology journalist working for a major metropolitan
magazine.
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