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Life with Ladybug: Perspective
By Shannon Magsam I picked up the phone to call my husband. To vent. I’d been to the dentist and I really needed to get a crown — plus I was reminded that I really […]
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The Rockwood Files: Camp NotGonnaDoIt
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 In a few weeks it will officially be fall, which means I can stop making excuses for why I can’t go camping. I realize there are […]
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The Rockwood Files: Note to the younger me
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 A wonderful thing is happening at our house. The kids are becoming… capable. That sounds weird, I know. It’s not like they were helpless blobs all […]
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The Rockwood Files: Ripple in the gene pool
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Sometimes genetics can be cruel. Often the things you hope won’t get passed down to your kids are the very things that show up and start […]
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The Rockwood Files: Back to school angst
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Our 12-year-old groans every time he sees a back-to-school commercial, which lately seems to happen once every five seconds. (I can’t blame him. When adults go […]
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The Rockwood Files: Just call me Seamonster
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Today I read something in the newspaper that convinces me there are people in the world with entirely too much time on their hands. How else […]
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Empty Nexter: It’s our time to take the lead
By Carrie Perrien Smith I love the flexibility and freedom that empty nesting provides me. We all give so much to our family during our child-rearing years that we need the break — but never […]
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The Rockwood Files: Lessons from the old school
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I tossed a new book into the beach bag and headed out the door with the kids to swim team practice. We both dove in – […]
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Life with Ladybug: How to de-clutter (written by a recovering slob)
By Shannon Magsam, co-founder of nwaMotherlode.com and mama to 1 little lady(bug) My husband took two straight weeks off from work this summer. We went to Florida one week and the next week we stayed […]
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The Rockwood Files: Road warriors back from battle
By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 We made it. Dragging in past midnight, bleary-eyed with sore behinds from more than 10 hours sitting in the car, we each fell into our own […]