Coastal Bend Mom Collective

10/12/2026

It’s “Take your pumpkins to see some pumpkins” season! Yay!!

Thank you Snaps by Linzy for this awesome list!

Local PUMPKIN PATCHES 🎃

🏫 Preschool Picture Day Expert
🪄 Mini Session Magician
✏ South Texas Homeschooler Photographer
📧 [email protected]
👉🏻Based out of Corpus Christi, TX & Booking Preschools from Victoria to the Valley

10/04/2026

Check this out!!

Middle School & High school students: Join our FREE YES Entrepreneurial Learning Camp October 12-16! (Young Entrepreneur Scholars). Register at https://www.tamucc.edu/education/departments/garcia-center/programs/yes-program.php
Activities include:
Financial literacy
Boardroom etiquette
Resume building
College preparation
Guest speakers
Confidence building
Learning to pitch an idea
Breakfast, lunch, & afternoon snack served
Awards banquet Friday
Located at the Antonio E. Garcia Arts & Education Center, 2021 Agnes Street.

09/26/2026

Parents, we wanted to make sure this was on your radar.

Hundreds of complaints have reportedly been filed involving Millie Moon diapers, with parents describing reactions including severe redness, rashes, welts, blistering and peeling.

We know how quickly parents go through diapers and how much trust you put into the products you use on your little ones every single day. When concerns like these are being raised, we believe families deserve to know about them.

At this time, we have not identified an official CPSC recall or stop-use warning for Millie Moon diapers. However, if your child experiences a concerning skin reaction while using any diaper product, stop using the product and contact your pediatrician.

Please share this with a parent or caregiver who may use Millie Moon. Sometimes simply making someone aware can make a difference.

09/12/2026

Weekends are a great time to head out for yummy breakfast with the fam!

This is a great round up! Which is your fave?

09/12/2026

I was in college, on my way to work, at Tanco in San Antonio, at 8:45 AM on 9/11/01.

I was listening to the radio in my Mustang and the DJ said something had just happened and President Bush had been reading to elementary kiddos, but had just excused himself. They didn’t know what had happened yet.

By the time I got to work a little before 9, news was being reported of a plane and NY and the World Trade Center.

I called Jared and told him to turn on the TV because something was happening in New York and I needed him to keep me updated.

I considered (and still consider) New York one of my homes. I was so confused and didn’t know how to feel.

I turned the radios on at the store (we didn’t have a TV) and reports started pouring in.

Jared brought a TV to the store so we could watch while at work.

I remember how I felt, how type store looked, where I sat when I talked on the phone to my mom and we worried together for all of our friends and for our beloved New York.

And we were so grateful that my sister was still a week or two away from moving back to NYC. Had it happened a month later, she would have been there.

We had so many friends share their stories of being there, friends who should have been at one of the towers, but didn’t go that day for whatever reason…

It still takes my breath away.

I will never, ever forget. The day, the tragedy, the HELPERS, oh my gosh, the helpers, and the togetherness that our country felt in the days following.

We must never, ever forget.

Love one another, friends. 💙

08/26/2026

🦋☕️ FIVE CUPS OF AMBITION, COMING RIGHT UP! ☕️🦋

Y’all. Reading through your Dolly songs, memories, quotes and stories was just about the sweetest way we could have spent the last day. From Jolene and Coat of Many Colors to Hard Candy Christmas, Islands in the Stream and, of course, I Will Always Love You, every comment was a little reminder of just how many lives Dolly touched. 🤍

We put all 25 entries in our virtual hat and randomly drew FIVE people to receive a little coffee money today:

☕️ Desiree Pill
☕️ Patty Barrera
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☕️ Nadein Garner
☕️ Jo Ann Sandoval Trevino

Check your DMs, friends and shoot me your email! Your cup is on me!

And maybe that’s the best way to honor Dolly today: be kind, be generous, make somebody smile, and leave the world just a little brighter than you found it.

Now go pour yourself a cup of ambition. 💕

Love and Smiles,
Elisabeth

08/26/2026

In honor of one of the greatest humans that ever lived, tomorrow I’m sending out 5 cups of ambition. ☕️🦋

Because if Dolly taught us anything, it’s to work hard, love big, laugh often, and leave people a little better than you found them.

To enter:
🦋 Comment with your favorite Dolly song, lyric, or memory
🦋 Tag a friend who loves Dolly, too

I’ll pick 5 people and send a little coffee money via DM tomorrow — because even though it’s going to be tough to stumble out of bed, a cup of ambition might help. 🤍

Entries close tomorrow at noon.

This isn’t sponsored, affiliated with, or endorsed by anyone. It’s simply me wanting to put a tiny bit of kindness into the world in honor of beautiful Dolly.

Pour yourself a cup of ambition. 🦋☕️

Love,
Elisabeth

08/25/2026

Fly high,🦋

Dolly Parton has been part of the soundtrack of my life for as long as I can remember. Sitting with in the garage with my daddy playing guitar, listening to 8 tracks then cassettes then CD’s in the car with PawPaw…all the songs I heard as a little girl…and the ones that have somehow found their way into so many chapters of my life.

I woke up feeling sad today. Missing my dad. So I listened to worship music all the way to work - envisioning my dad in heaven making music.

There is something so comforting knowing that a voice and spirit that brought so much joy here could simply carry on in heaven.

Then I heard the news. And my heart broke.

But I can’t help but smile thinking that maybe my dad might run into Dolly somewhere up there, guitar in hand, and pull up a chair beside her in the greatest pickers circle of all - playing songs and swapping stories for eternity.

Gosh, I look forward to the day that I get to be there.

Thank you, Dolly, for the music, the laughter, the kindness, the faith, and the beautiful legacy you leave behind.

What a gift you have been to this world.

And what a soundtrack you gave us.
💙

06/23/2026

It’s the season of summer BBQ’s, picnics and beach/lake meals.

While I love a great backyard BBQ – I’m seriously tired of the heat. That is why I love making great food that is cool and refreshing.

Today on the blog – we are making an easy chicken spinach salad. Light, healthy and yummy.

Peep the blog for the super simple and delicious recipe: https://coastalbendmom.com/in-the-kitchen/super-delicious-and-super-easy-chicken-spinach-salad/

06/22/2026

ICE CREAM ALL DAY for this mama - how about you? Bonus points if you drop your fave popsicle/ice cream flavor and I'll pick one of you to win Hooks tickets!