Mom Blogs:

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. […]

By Shannon Magsam Ten thousand steps. That’s the number of steps you should take every day to be really healthy, according to fit friends’ comments and the booklet that came with my new fancy pedometer. […]

By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Early one morning as I was brushing my teeth, I heard clattering coming from the shower followed by my husband’s not-so-chipper morning voice. “Honey! Why are […]