Archive for June, 2008
Devotion in Motion: Life Lessons
By Gwen Rockwood, mama of 3 Good Sunday morning, mamas. Thought I’d share a few more tidbits from one of my favorite devotional books, “Mother Angelica’s Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality.” Here’s hoping they touch you, inspire you or encourage you this week. You Are the Good News “This world is never [...]
The Rockwood Files: Climb Every Mountain
By Gwen Rockwood, columnist and mama of 3 Our third child is a wonderful baby girl who has just turned 1 ½ years old this month. She has golden, wavy hair, deep blue eyes and the sweetest smile I’ve ever seen. And, if I didn’t know otherwise, I would swear she was fathered by Spiderman [...]
Ashley Borgsmiller Going to Go Diego Go Live!
Ashley Borgsmiller of Fayetteville is the lucky mama who won four tickets from Motherlode to see Go Diego Go Live! Thanks a million to Walton Arts Center for donating tickets to this spectacular show! Ashley has two kiddos and both of them love Diego, Baby Jaguar and the entire cast of characters. In this particular [...]
Drama for Mama: So You Think You Can Dance, Elimination Night
By Gwen, mama of 3 On elimination night, the dancers always perform as a group to open the show. Thursday night’s group performance was a very cool, gangster hip-hop routine choreographed by Shane Sparks featuring dancers Twitch and Comfort, in particular. One of the couples which received the lowest number of votes from Wednesday night’s [...]
Life With Ladybug: Hold the phone
By Shannon For the first time ever today, my daughter asked to call a friend. It’s particularly amusing since she is not what I’d call a phone person. By age 6, most kids race to answer the phone and will gladly trip anyone else who tries to get it first. They’ll gamely chat with anyone [...]
Hair: “Help Me Rhonda”
Dear Rhonda, I just bought a new hairdryer and it came with a big diffuser attachment. I should probably already know this, but what in the heck am I supposed to do with this thing? Why do I need it? Dear Diffuser Dilemma,Listen, I know those blow dryer attachments can look pretty scary, but do [...]
Drama for Mama: So You Think You Can Dance
By Gwen, mama of 3 I don’t know about you girls, but I love, love, LOVE this show. Can’t get enough of it. The moves, the costumes, the personalities – it’s so good. Last week the field was narrowed from 20 to 18 dancers, and this week was marked with three stand-out performances. Here they [...]
Advice: “Mind Your Mama”
Dear Jennifer, I am a single mom of three boys ages 11 1/2, 9 and 3 1/2. I would like for the boys to have a fun summer and want them to feel like they have had a real break. At the same time, I’d like to instill in them a certain level of responsibility [...]
Go Diego Go show tickets for FREE!
Edited to add: We’re drawing to a close at 5 p.m. today, Friday, June 19. We’ll announce the winner on Friday! Just imagine how many “cool mom” points you’d earn with your kids if you took them to the Go Diego Go LIVE show at the Walton Arts Center. You’d be off-the-charts cool all summer [...]
All Akimbo: A second helping of baby love, please
So, yeah. This infertility thing. I know there are people out there who would object to me being called an infertile because I do already have a child. But I’ve tried for almost two years to have another one, to no avail … that doesn’t exactly make me Fertile Myrtle, either, right? Monikers aside, there [...]
Drama for Mama: Nashville Star
By Gwen, mama of 3 On Monday’s Nashville Star, each of the three judges took on a category of contestants to mentor. Jeffrey Steele mentored the groups while John Rich coached the ladies and Jewel polished up performances for the men. Here were the three stand-out performances of the night for this music lovin’ mama: [...]
Delicious Strawberry Pie recipe
My neighbor, Donna, whipped up some strawberry shortcake-esque dessert recently and brought over three for each of us. It wasn’t the typical cake, covered with strawberries, topped with whipped cream. It was much, much better. It was made with those little graham cracker crust cups/tart shells (they come in packs of four in the baking [...]
Beauty Buzz: Ask Amy
Dear Amy, How can I convince my mother that her pancake foundation is outdated? She has been doing it this way for 40 years. I know her make-up could look a lot better and much more natural, but I don’t know how to get her to try something new. Any advice? Dear Daughter, I had [...]
Let’s Hear it for the Dads (and fabulous husbands)!
I have always enjoyed looking into my husband’s face. It’s a face I love. But sometimes (like lately) I’m a little too busy to gaze lovingly into his eyes. In fact, I’m more apt to spout instructions at his backside as I head into my home office (again) to do some work. “Can you please [...]
The Rockwood Files: Raising Squirrels
By Gwen Rockwood Some fathers teach their kid to swing a bat. Some fathers teach their kid to swim. My father taught me to raise squirrels. He brought them home from work one day, the way some fathers tote home a briefcase. A self-employed landscaper and tree trimmer, he had accidentally rendered the two baby [...]