Mom Blogs:

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama This Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 14-16) is the PetSmart National Adoption Weekend. I know for a fact there are some sweet cats and kittens at the Fayetteville PetSmart store […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Wednesday will be a good day. Because by early afternoon, the kitchen and bathroom counters will be clean, the floors shiny and there’ll be fresh vacuum […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama My babycakes isn’t just a fifth-grader this year. She’s a MIDDLE SCHOOLER. That sounds worse, doesn’t it? Three weeks in and she’s LOVING it. Loves the lockers, changing classes, her […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I’m beginning to think that, although our dog Charlie has been blessed with a super-powered Beagle nose, perhaps he didn’t get a great deal of Beagle […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 By this time next week, I’ll be sitting in a quiet house. The boys will have gone back to school and this time they’ll be taking […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 I have a theory that check-out clerks know a lot about people. And they don’t have to read tea leaves to do it. That long receipt […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Sweaty greetings from the middle of a heat wave. Today I took the kids to the pool for a swim lesson and waited by the water’s […]

By Carrie Perrien Smith Food allergies and sensitivities are a major inconvenience for me. But I’m lucky to know I have them. Thousands of people wander through life with no idea that is their problem. […]