by Louise | May 4, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Parenting
Mother’s Day is Sunday. The lessons I’ve learned aren’t all from my own mother. They are from all the moms in my life! I learned from my friends who struggled with infertility that mothering starts before babies are even on the way. I learned from other moms how to...
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 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 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...
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...
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