Archive for February, 2012
Northwest Arkansas Mom’s Choice Business Awards and a HUGE giveaway
It’s no secret that when you’re scoping out the best businesses around, you find a mom and ask what she recommends. Women and mothers are always on the lookout for the “best” when it comes to restaurants, doctors, party places, music lessons and all the businesses necessary to take care of the whole family. Mamas, [...]
Crafty Mama: DIY Modern Art!
Guest post by artist Amber Perrodin Sale alert note from the mamas: Amber’s husband makes her artist panels (as seen in this post). He sells them on Etsy as Perrodin Supply Co. The Perrodins have generously offered to sell these to Motherlode readers at an exclusive 30% off. The coupon code at checkout is CraftyMama. [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: When he won’t get healthy
By Laurie Marshall A while back I mentioned that my husband was being treated for high blood pressure. Actually, there was a whole post about it. His doctor has him taking a couple of different medications three times a day, and it’s brought his numbers down enough that he doesn’t have to visit the clinic [...]
Beauty Buzz: Make-up 911
By Andi Douglas, nwaMotherlode beauty editor We all have a dusty old makeup bag stashed in the back of our bathroom cabinet filled with ill-fated expensive makeup that has cracked, melted or dried up before its time…it was so young and beautiful! Such a tragedy you can’t stand to throw it away. Until recently, I [...]
What We’re Reading: Remarkable memoirs
If you follow the mamas on Twitter (@nwaMotherlode) you’ve probably seen my (Shannon’s) tweets about the memoir Signs of Life. I was especially twitter-pated when the author, Natalie Taylor, tweeted back to me. It was … awesome to hear back from her, because I was right in the middle of the book and completely in [...]
Giveaway: Tickets to Peking Acrobats at Walton Arts Center
Note from the mamas: Jose’s on Dickson Street is temporarily closed, but the one in Springdale is still open. Just wanted to give you a heads-up! Do you have one of those kids who’s always tumbling, cartwheeling or bouncing around the house? Well, this show is the perfect fit for your little (or big) mover [...]
Mealtime Mama: Make these recipes tonight!
Recipes by Amy James, Our Everyday Dinners Amy and her husband of 13 years, John, have 3 little ones: Kate, Abby and Alex. Before kids, she was an MBA working in HR and John was a Family Practice doctor. “We ate out every night, stayed up past midnight, spent our weekends at the lake with [...]
Devotion in Motion: Letter to my son, on his 18th birthday
“To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV) By Bro. John L. Cash, “Country Preacher Dad” Dear Spencer, It’s so hard to believe that you’re 18 years old now and graduating high school. The thing that astounds me most is how quickly the time has gone by [...]
The Rockwood Files: “You can’t handle the tooth.”
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Early this morning, I opened my eyes and saw 7-year-old Jack’s eyes looking right at me, just inches from my face. “Mom,” he whispered. “I need to tell you something.” “What is it, Jack?” I groaned sleepily. “The tooth fairy didn’t come last night,” he said. [...]
You gotta see this video: Guaranteed to make you smile
Don’t you wish they were ALWAYS this easy to entertain? We LOVE this one. Happy Friday, mamas!
Listen to Your Mother: Send in those stories by Feb. 29!
Mamas and writerly friends, auditions are OPEN! But not for long! You have until Feb. 29th to send in that great story/post/essay you’ve written about any aspect of motherhood. Northwest Arkansas will have a local performance of the national Mother’s Day series of live readings called Listen to Your Mother and emailing your story is [...]
Roadtrip! Mamas made it to Blissdom!
The mamas drove all the way to Nashville on Wednesday and are happy to be soaking up all the bloggy goodness at the BlissDom 2012 Conference today! One fellow mama called it ”speed dating for bloggers”. We love that! BlissDom is an amazing conference for women “who find and express their bliss by publishing online”. That describes us, right? [...]
5 Minutes with a Mom: Heidi Simmons
Name: Heidi Simmons Kids’ names and ages: Luke 9, Alyssa 5 Where are you from and what brought you to NWA? My husband and I are both from Northeast Ohio, but we haven’t lived there in 20 years. We met when he was active duty military and married in Tennessee. When he decided to leave the Army, he [...]
Inside His Head: Is it time for the kids to meet my boyfriend?
OK, ladies, it’s time to travel back to that strange land that we (sometimes) just don’t understand … “Inside His Head”. Inside His Head has become very popular with the mamas, since women have a million questions about why men do the things they do. Our panel of husbands (whose identities will remain anonymous for [...]
Good Gossip: Aniston is a birthday girl, Sting’s a grandpa, and Rambo and Terminator go under the knife!
Good Gossip is our bi-weekly round-up of the best celebrity news we can find — minus the worst of the nasty tabloid rumors. So enjoy a heaping dish of good gossip! It’s guilt-free. Scarlett Johanson was spotted recently on a beach in Kauai, Hawaii with her boyfriend of five months, Nate Naylor. Naylor is a [...]