by Shannon | May 1, 2016 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
Standing in a ridiculously slow line for the snack bar at a ridiculously over-priced and over-crowded indoor waterpark, I take slow even breaths as the cashiers try quite unsuccessfully to figure out how to remove french fries from an order and replace them with...
by Louise | Apr 28, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Uncategorized
There is a cool new app out right now called Tip Yourself (props to my husband for discovering it first). It’s a finance app, and the theory is that if you tip service professionals for a job well done, why not tip yourself? You connect the app to your bank...
by Shannon | Apr 10, 2016 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
I figure that between the almost-16 years I’ve been a parent, the 9 kids that our writers have in total, and the countless other “nephews and nieces” I’ve helped raise over the years….IN ADDITION TO the fact that I was a child myself...
by Shannon | Apr 6, 2016 | Encourage, Shannon
I have a saying for you–actually, I have a couple of them: Good moms have sticky floors, dirty counters and happy kids. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work. Life doesn’t always go the way we expect it...
by Gwen | Mar 31, 2016 | Encourage, Parenting
Yeah, I know we are all tired. But, April Fool’s Day is tomorrow. I have three kids who have it coming. All year long I am their taxi cab, nurse, maid, chef, psychologist… Tomorrow I am going to enjoy myself. Lucy freaks out if we talk about moving. The...
by Louise | Mar 28, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Parenting, Uncategorized
You know how everything kids do “these days” is nothing like what “we used to do”? It’s true in a million ways, except one: letters from camp! My mom was going through old family papers last week and hit the jackpot with letters that her...
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