by Louise | Apr 8, 2016 | DIY, Empower, Louise, Penny Pinching, Uncategorized
My sister-in-law is the very best card-sender and holiday rememberer. Even though she works full time and is a busy mom and wife and volunteer, she sends her nieces and nephews cards for everything – birthdays, Easter, Valentine’s, Halloween, kindergarten...
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 14, 2016 | Faith, Inspire, Louise, She Believed She Could
There are sooo many wonderful groups making life better for people in our area. But there’s one that you may not have heard about yet – and it’s making a big difference in the lives of girls in Neosho. Over the past year I’ve gotten to know one of our...
by Louise | Mar 9, 2016 | Inform, Louise, Uncategorized
How much time do you take to get to know people around you? To really hear their stories, encourage them, be a friend, be a neighbor? You may be better at it than I’ve been lately! I’ll admit, I get caught up in my own busy-ness and don’t take as...
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 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...
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