Archive for March, 2009
Mealtime Mama: A Crock Pot a Day…
by Rhonda Franz, nwaMotherlode contributor Laura Keeney lives in Rogers and is a busy wife and mom to two boys, one girl, and a boxer named Luke. When she’s not shuttling her kids to baseball, soccer, and dance, she might be spotted at Starbucks drinking coffee and hiding behind a book. Historically, spending time making [...]
Clifford, Curious George and other TV friends at the Jones Center Tuesday!
Just a reminder that it’s Spring Break Week ’09 at the Jones Center for Families in Springdale! Starting tomorrow (Tuesday, March 24) it’s AETN day and they’re bringing some of your kids’ favorite PBS characters: Curious George, Maya & Miguel, Clifford the Big Red Dog and WorldGirl! This event is open from 10 a.m. to [...]
Doc Talk: Postpartum depression or ‘baby blues’?
Doc Talk is a weekly series that lets you go on a virtual visit to the doctor’s office. We ask the questions moms want answers to, and the physicians of Mercy Health System provide the answers via video podcast. If you have a general medical question you’d like a video answer for, e-mail it to [...]
Drama for Mama: Desperate Housewives
Poor Edie. She may not have always been my favorite housewife, but I sure hated to see her go the way she did. If you missed Desperate Housewives on Sunday, you missed an action-packed episode. Here’s what happened: The big news? Edie may be dead!!! She found out about crazy Dave’s plot to hurt or [...]
Devotion in Motion: Those Little Aggravations
39 ‘ When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ Matthew 25:39-40 (NKJV) By Bro. John [...]
The Rockwood Files: The gift of perspective
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 My birthday plans were simple. Maybe a little shopping with my mother, who was visiting for the weekend. Maybe I’d talk my dad into planting some flowers in front of our house. A nice home-cooked meal for lunch. Then Tom and I would watch the [...]
Guess who’s going on a “Great Date”?
Tricia won the Great Date Giveaway! That means she and her husband will be enjoying a grown-up dinner for two at Bordinos Italian Restaurant followed by two tickets to the Cirque Eloize “Nebbia” show at the Walton Arts Center on March 25th. Here’s how it works when we do a drawing. We have a computer [...]
Waiting for Shlomo: Dealing with the grief
By Erin Myers How to deal with this grief? I cannot even begin to put it into words. The crying and outpouring comes in little spurts. Mostly, I am dull, and numb, and shocked, and depressed, and busy — with my own life, and family, and busy with the last bits of her life. I [...]
5 Minutes with a Mom: Dianna Albert
Childrens’ names and ages: Bobby 16, Thatcher 6 Hometown: Rich Hill, Mo. Where were you raised? Rich Hill, Mo., attended University of Arkansas If you had a whole weekend by yourself to “play”, what would you do? Be lonely, would miss the kids. Advice you wish someone had given you before you became a mom? [...]
Last chance to enter the drawing!
You’ve still got a few hours left to throw your name in the hat for our “Great Date Giveaway.” This week’s giveaway features a 50-dollar gift certificate for dinner at Bordinos Italian Restaurant followed by two show tickets to see Cirque Eloize “Nebbia” at the Walton Arts Center on March 25th. We’ll select a name [...]
Hair: “Help Me Rhonda” on perms
Dear Rhonda, Are perms totally “out”? Is there ever a good reason to get a perm anymore? Dear Permanently Curious, This is a great question. The fashion trends certainly seem to have turned backward to the 80s, so why shouldn’t the hair go with it, right? But we have to hope that not everything from [...]
Life With Ladybug: For Wendy
By Shannon Magsam All day yesterday — as I visited the Botanical Gardens and Gulley Park and the ice cream store with my husband, sister-in-law and Ladybug — I kept thinking about Wendy. Wendy died Saturday after battling an aggressive cancer for less than a year. She was only 34. She is survived by her [...]
Drama for Mama: American Idol
Elimination Night Recap: Well, I certainly didn’t see that one coming. Alexis Grace was voted off American Idol Wednesday night, which is a shame because she seemed to have real potential. Joining her in the bottom three were Michael Sarver and Allison Iraheta. Allison was sent back to safety, so it came down to Michael [...]
Send those pictures!
Don’t forget to send us some snapshots of your kiddos if you’d like to show them off in our new online photo gallery. (Just click on the Polaroid at the top of the page or scroll to the bottom of this page to see our Motherlode scrapbook.) We’ll be uploading new photos to the gallery [...]
Shop Talk: Easter clothes
With only a few weeks to go, Easter will be here before you can say “hopping down the bunny trail.” We thought we’d share a few online finds for cute Easter clothes. You’ve got to admit, mamas, Wal-Mart has come a long way in the kids’ clothing department. With nicer fabrics and better designs, it’s [...]