by Shannon | Dec 19, 2020 | Encourage, Life in general, Shannon
This holiday season I’m finding myself bouncing wildly between two states of mind: 1. We are going to have a flipping AMAZING traditional Christmas if it flipping kills us! AND2. Nothing is going to be the same as it’s always been, so why bother trying?...
by Shannon | Aug 12, 2020 | Encourage, Life in general, Shannon, Uncategorized
Kid #3 starts school in the morning. As in…she’s leaving the house and going to another building for eight hours! Oh is she ever excited to start 8th grade…truly! She’s been organizing and labeling (and re-labeling and re-organizing) school and...
by Shannon | Aug 19, 2019 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
This. This water bottle. This bulky water bottle that my kid has been caring around with him to school, to sports, to work…for long as I can remember. I hate finding it all muddy sitting in the sink with the assumption that I’m going to clean it (which I do of course...
by Shannon | Aug 4, 2019 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
We’ve filled our days, focused on making memories, tried tons of new things, repeated traditions, eaten dozens of family meals, had movie nights, traveled lots of places, taken hundreds of pictures, enjoyed friends, cherished family, holed up in our rooms when...
by Shannon | May 15, 2019 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
With graduation just around the corner combined with the fact that all three of us (authors of this blog) have seniors….well, there have been some pretty sweet~bitter~sweet~bitter moments around here. I happen to know that one of us, I’ll let you guess...
by Shannon | Feb 24, 2019 | Encourage, Life in general, Shannon
I thought I could ignore it. Well, maybe not ignore it exactly..more like drape it with some trendy designer fabric and put little vintage chalkboards around it that say things in cute curly writing like: “We’re finally here!” “So proud and...
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