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The Rockwood Files: Note to the younger me

09/06/2014 nwamamas

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

08/30/2014 nwamamas

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

08/23/2014 nwamamas

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

08/16/2014 nwamamas

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

08/13/2014 nwamamas

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

08/09/2014 nwamamas

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)

08/07/2014 nwamamas

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

08/02/2014 nwamamas

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 […]

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The Rockwood Files: Refrigerator shame

07/26/2014 nwamamas

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 My refrigerator made a fool of me today. This morning when I came downstairs to the kitchen, it was croaking – loudly. It sounded like an […]

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Life with Ladybug: Back to life. Back to reality.

07/24/2014 nwamamas

On our way back from Panama City Beach in Florida, we stopped by my parents’ house to spend the night – and to pick up a chicken. No, not KFC. Against my better judgment, we […]

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