by Shannon | Mar 20, 2016 | Encourage, Shannon
Last week it was almost 80 degrees. The skies were robin’s egg blue, the daffodils and pear trees had bloomed, the spring peepers were belting out a beautiful symphony…it was hard to believe it was the middle of March! Today it is stinkin’ cold....
by Shannon | Mar 16, 2016 | Encourage, Shannon
So it’s less than a week until Spring Break and my family still isn’t sure what it’s doing. We’ve talked about jumping in the car and heading west to hit the slopes. We’ve discussed going to visit family in Dallas for a few days....
by Louise | Mar 2, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Parenting
(Photo: Annie as a new ballerina, 2006) I spent the weekend at a dance competition. Yes, I’m sort of a dance mom. (Maybe not in the fake-eyelashes-hyper-competitive-brawling-with-other-dance-moms way, but we did recently acquire the costume travel duffel bag...
by Shannon | Feb 28, 2016 | Encourage, Shannon
My friend was going through some old pictures the other day and came across a huge bunch of them featuring us and our kids doing all kinds of super amazing things. Apparently we used to be fun and full of energy! We would load our combination of six small humans...
by Louise | Feb 27, 2016 | Encourage, Friendship, Louise
If the first rule of real estate is location, location, location, then the first rule of relationships is communication, communication, communication. But then – there’s middle school. My 13-year-old daughter came home with a sad tale of a disagreement...
by Shannon | Feb 18, 2016 | Encourage, Friendship, Shannon
Let me just start this post with a warning: expect total hideous (and possibly humiliating) honesty here. Notice I left out the word “profound.” This is a pretty surface-y piece of writing….but words won’t be minced. Some days I feel like a...
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