Archive for October, 2009
The Rockwood Files: What a fly on the wall hears
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 One of the perks of being a parent is that you’re often part of some interesting conversations. Here are a few excerpts from recent chats at our house. The first took place with 5-year-old Jack while we were loading backpacks to take to school the next [...]
Shop ’til you drop: Candy Cane Lane 2009
The Junior Auxiliary of Rogers-Bentonville (JARB) is sponsoring Candy Cane Lane Holiday Market 2009! Specialized retailers from Northwest Arkansas and beyond will be selling a wide variety of lovely merchandise, so you’re sure to find something for most everyone on your Christmas list. Tickets are only $5 at the door and FREE for kids under [...]
Don’t forget the Cheez Quiz!
We’re having lots of fun finding out more about you through the answers in our Cheez Quiz jar. The question this latest go-round was: “Which of the following phrases do you find yourself saying most often?” The possible answers included: What do you say … ? (Prompting ‘please’ or ‘thank you’) Settle down Clean up [...]
Bentonville Bark Park Grand Opening Tomorrow!
The grand opening of the Bentonville Bark Park is tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 24) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. So load up your dogs and check out Northwest Arkansas’ new off-leash dog park! The event — which is sponsored by NWAdogparks.com — is expected to pull in over 500 people (we didn’t get a canine [...]
Drama for Mama: Grey’s Anatomy
This week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy was all about perspective — which means we got to see the show from several different doctors’ perspectives. Here’s what happened: A hotel fire sent lots of severely injured people flooding into the ER. One of the less critical patients was a woman with some burns on her leg [...]
Love it, want it: Cute sparkly Keds for girls
I just spotted these adorable little Keds for toddler girls at Kohls and fell in love with them. Of course, as rotten luck would have it, they didn’t have my daughter’s size so I clicked on over to the website to find them there. Just thought I’d pass along the photo and info in case [...]
Fashion Mama: The perfect pair of jeans
This just in: I just saw a preview for Oprah today (Thursday) that says she is going to talk about her new favorite brand of jeans on the show. She says they’re great for women with “a bootie.” Might want to set your DVR or tune in at 4 p.m. on ABC! I’ll be watchin’. [...]
Life With Ladybug: The Haunting
By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s faint-hearted mama I hate scary movies. I don’t like filling my mind with images I inevitably recall at inopportune moments –like when I’m walking out to my car in a dark parking garage. So what if the parking garage is at the public library? Dark parking garages are just creepy. My [...]
New in Town: Fun Ideas for NWA Families
If you’re new to Northwest Arkansas — or if you’re a new mama navigating the neighborhoods for the first time with a baby on the hip — we thought you’d appreciate some local exploring options. We asked some moms who were recently “new in town” themselves (thanks, new girls!) to tell us their favorite places [...]
Drama for Mama: The Good Wife
All signs are pointing to a possible liaison down the road between The Good Wife and her new boss. Alicia and Will attended law school together — so they have a little bit of history to entangle them immediately. In Tuesday night’s episode, Alicia and Will worked really late — “We’re the last ones here” [...]
Picture Mama: Send us kids in costume!
We’re working on putting together a photo collection of local kids in Halloween costumes, and we’ll publish it on Friday, October 30th. The photo collection will stay on the homepage all weekend and in our gallery and Picture Mama category indefinitely. If you’ve got some cute shots from last Halloween, send them in! Or, if [...]
Beauty Buzz: Limited edition products for a cause
By Andi Douglas, nwaMotherlode.com Beauty Buzz Editor October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and in support of that many brands have introduced limited edition products to support research efforts for finding a cure and to help raise awareness. Bonus for us: we get to help a great cause and score some hot new beauty finds! [...]
Time to Plant!
It happens every spring. I spot my neighbors beautiful pink tulips and yellow jonquils and wish I had something blooming in my stark flowerbed. But then I realize that you can’t get tulips in the spring unless you’ve planted them months before, and I’m never quite sure when to do that. But I just found [...]
Drama for Mama: Desperate Housewives
As fans of the show already know, there is never a dull moment on Wisteria Lane. Here’s what happened to the housewives this week: Lynette: Pregnant with twins and just entering the second trimester, Lynette got a visit from the boob fairy. And the fairy was generous — very generous. A man at work noticed [...]
Devotion in Motion: Party Mix for Cats!
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4 (NKJV) By Bro. John L. Cash, “Country Preacher Dad” I’ve always heard of “church mice”. But in our parsonage (our home next door to the church) we have “church cats”—a pair of tabbies named Marvin and Sister (pictured snoozing on a windowsill [...]