What We’re Reading

By April Wallace, Northwest Arkansas mama and nwaMotherlode contributor If there’s ever any holiday you can justify buying loads of books for, it should be Valentine’s Day because kids don’t tire of hearing that we […]

Book reviews: The Dearly Beloved and The Midnight Library By April Wallace, Northwest Arkansas mom and Early Childhood Editor for nwaMotherlode.com When my favorite bookstagram reviewer sang the praises of The Dearly Beloved by Cara […]

If you have little ones who are worried about going to sleep because of the possibility of “monsters” in the room, there’s a children’s book you can read to them to help put those fears […]

Reviews by April Wallace, Early Childhood Editor for nwaMotherlode.com Every year on October 1, I wake my boys up for the first batch of banana bread of the season and start the daily tradition of […]

Mamas, when Shannon and I founded this website in 2008, our oldest kids were in Kindergarten. Those sweet babies have now morphed into JUNIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! No one is more surprised than we are […]

Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult Okay, I know I’m late to the party. I can’t believe this was my first Jodi Picoult novel, but now I’m hooked! I loved, loved, loved Picoult’s 2016 novel Small […]

Mamas, I’d been in kind of a reading rut, typically choosing the same kinds of books over and over, when I stumbled across a recommendation for a book called “The Mother-in-Law” by Sally Hepworth. The […]

The other day, I said these exact words to myself (out loud) while driving the car: “I am SUCH an idiot!” And here’s the worst part. My teenage daughter was sitting right next to me. […]