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The Rockwood Files: Pickers and choosers

05/09/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Remodeling your house is a little like having a baby. It’s wonderful and exciting – right up until the sledgehammer smashes into the first wall. Then […]

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The Rockwood Files: Fruity chocolate

05/02/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 There’s a big bag of candy on the kitchen counter and no one is eating it. In a house with three kids and a chocolate-loving husband, […]

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The Rockwood Files: Dear Greg

04/18/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Dear Greg, April sucks. It really does. Each year as the calendar creeps closer to April 20th, the knot in my throat gets a little bigger […]

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The Rockwood Files: Resting My Eyes

04/11/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I opened my eyes and fought my way up toward the surface of consciousness after a deep, blissful sleep. The first thing I saw was 10-year-old […]

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Life with Ladybug: Not digging Graves’ Disease

04/09/2015 nwamamas

By Shannon Magsam I have a friend who may have thyroid cancer and I’m more than freaked out about it, but praying that she gets the help she needs, has surgery and gets the all-clear […]

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The Rockwood Files: How Spring Break nearly broke me

04/04/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 The world that exists inside your own head is a much kinder, gentler world than the one outside. I know this because, inside my head, I’m […]

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Empty Nexter: How to plan your funeral in three easy steps

04/03/2015 nwamamas

By Carrie Perrien Smith I got the call from Mom at 4:10 on the afternoon of Saturday, February 21. It was punctuated with “I don’t know what I will do without your father.” At age […]

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Slightly Tilted: Split Personalities

04/01/2015 nwamamas

By Jen Adair, Blogger at Slightly Tilted, Entreprenuer, Homeschool Mom to two fab kiddos Lately, my kids have become British in the morning and rednecks hillbillies after four in the afternoon. I don’t really know […]

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The Rockwood Files: The Name Game

03/28/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 In Dale Carnegie’s famous book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” he wrote that you should use a person’s name when you’re talking to them […]

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The Rockwood Files: Have trash, will travel

03/21/2015 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 When I noticed the delivery box on the front steps, I flung open the door and greedily grabbed it. I hauled it to the kitchen, grabbed […]

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