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The Rockwood Files: One fish, two fish…

01/02/2010 Gwen

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A few years ago, my husband Tom made a mistake. Without thinking through the consequences, he did something rash and now we’re both paying the price. […]

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The Rockwood Files: “You better watch out…”

12/23/2009 Gwen

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Even though Christmas isn’t over yet, I’m already a little sad that soon it will be. The kids will rip through those hours of shopping and […]

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Military Mama

Military Mama: Just Keep Swimming

12/22/2009 Shannon

By Jade Stone, military mom The Christmas season is in to full swing and there’s a myriad of Christmas parties that one feels obligated to attend.  I do my social duty to make an appearance […]

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The Rockwood Files

The Rockwood Files: The Blessings of Being “Boring”

12/19/2009 Gwen

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Unless you’ve recently been run over by a reindeer or were in a coma, you have no doubt heard more than you probably wanted to about […]

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Life With Ladybug

Life with Ladybug: Brand new Fun City even ‘funner’!

12/17/2009 nwamamas

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mom So I’m diggin’ Fun City’s new digs! They recently moved just a hop, skip and a jump away from their old location. Now they’re in the shopping center off 412 […]

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Military Mama

Military Mama: Bittersweet homecoming

12/16/2009 nwamamas

By Jade Stone, military mama It’s that time of year when the weather is unpredictable at best, busy days become busier and the task of daily chores seem to pile up without explanation! But this […]

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The Rockwood Files: Making a list and trimming it twice

12/12/2009 Gwen

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Every year I swear I’m not going to let this happen again. But inevitably, it happens. I wake up one morning in early December and realize […]

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Life With Ladybug

Life With Ladybug: Raindrops on roses

12/10/2009 Shannon

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mom My husband’s niece, Kelly, and her husband just announced this week they’re expecting a baby. The family’s all a-twitter and Kelly and I have been e-mailing back and forth (she’s […]

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The Rockwood Files

The Rockwood Files: ‘Tis the season to drive

12/05/2009 Gwen

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’ve got that familiar feeling of pre-trip anxiety today. I’m packing up what feels like our entire house for a short five-day trip to Minneapolis to […]

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Life With Ladybug

Life With Ladybug: Spell me h-a-p-p-y

12/03/2009 Shannon

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mom OK, I know some moms see the big smiley face (or star) on their kids’ paper every week, but it’s been a long time coming for us. Ladybug just got […]

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