Month: March 2012

Here comes Peter Cottontail! Yes, Easter is almost here and lots of Northwest Arkansas cities are hosting egg hunts, some starting this Saturday. We rounded up some of the region’s best, but please let us […]

Ozark Natural Foods is our new Mealtime Mama sponsor and we wanted to introduce this fabulous local gem to Motherlode readers. Obviously, many of you already know about — and take advantage of — this […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama and pet parent I’m back home after dropping my daughter off at school in the morning and I walk over to my computer. I’m itching to get to work. I […]

You have no idea how happy I was when I found out about this website from a report on 60 Minutes. My kids are in elementary school and I’m already having trouble helping them with […]

As moms, don’t you wish we all had this kind of patience all the time? Enjoy.

Only 10 days to go until Easter. Can you believe it? It’s coming up fast, and we’re finding so many cute things to put in the kids’ Easter baskets this year. Speaking of baskets, we […]

By Andi Douglas, nwaMotherlode beauty editor As a visual learner, a lot of beauty advice doesn’t always resonate with me without a frame of reference. Enter the color wheel. I’ve seen a lot of references […]

In case you missed it, the official first day of spring was last week. What’s that you say? You say you did NOT get all your spring cleaning projects done on that first day of […]

Look, mamas! We dreamed up a new video feature for the website, and we’re asking local moms to answer the big questions, like this one: “What has surprised you most about motherhood?” Click the play […]

Recipes by Jen Lewis Jen Lewis teaches cooking/entertaining classes at the design studio Whiteline Designs. She teaches cocktail/appetizer demonstration classes, 3-course meal classes with wine pairings and private parties. We’ve seen Jen in action and […]

¶ Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be filled with it and vomit.  Proverbs 25:16 (NKJV) By Bro. John L. Cash, “Country Preacher Dad” Today in the elementary […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I watched a man fish today at 30,000 feet above the Earth. He was sitting across the aisle one row ahead of me on an airplane […]

I was at the Faithful Friends Animal Clinic in Rogers a couple of weeks ago to pick up a bag of prescription cat food that our high-maintenance cat Percy has to eat. While I was […]