Month: October 2008

By Kim Blakely So, some people have wondered how I’m doing with the South Beach Diet. I’ve stuck with it and I’ve lost seven pounds, although I am cautiously hoping to gain every one of […]

Dear Amy, I am 35 and still get pimples! I think it’s worse now than when I was in junior high. What’s going on and how can I stop this??? Dear Pimply, I feel your […]

These three dishes are typically served at University Baptist Church’s annual Angel Fair, a fund-raiser open to the public for the church’s benevolent arm, Second Mile Ministries. The fair is always held just before Thanksgiving […]

So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There are lots of things I love about fall – the smell of chimney smoke, the rustle of red leaves on the driveway and the feeling […]

By Shannon Magsam, a bath junkie Fellow mamas, imagine my horror as I opened the shower door recently to discover an empty jar of Bath Junkie salt scrub. When I saw the lid askew and […]

Congratulations to Helen Urban of Fayetteville! Helen won the four tickets to see The Gruffalo at Walton Arts Center and dinner at Jose’s Mexican restaurant! Helen has two kiddos, 5-year-old Kelsey (well, she will be […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama “Honey, it looks like on our anniversary this year you were taking a steroid,” I called out from the kitchen as I looked at the 2/26/08 date on the Prednisone […]

By Jackie, the Music Mama What often separates the mamas from the papas is that women aren’t afraid to have a good cry now and then, when we really need one. For those times when […]