Meet Louise…
Thanks for stopping at our little blog! I’m Louise, and I’m currently in the “taxi” season of child raising, spending lots of time in my car but still loving the teenage years more than the toddler years. I love running, hiking, reading, good coffee (with good friends) and good salsa. I love northern Michigan in the summertime. In addition to time spent with my husband and three children, I also work in fundraising for a women and children’s center.
What I Love Right Now!
Stitch Fix – If you haven’t discovered this personal styling service in a box, it’s so fun. You sign up online for a personal stylist to select 5 items for you (clothing, bags, shoes, jewelry) and you can schedule a “fix” as often as you want. The clothes are cute and fun and different, and mine fit so well! I love it.
Finally, an app that makes me a better friend
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...
read more“Dear Dad”: How Camp Letters Haven’t Changed Since 1931
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 mother (my grandmother...
read moreShe Believed She Could: Help Girls ‘Dream with All Their Hearts’
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 local news...
read more“…Now Turn to the Person on Your Left”
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 much time as I...
read moreI’m a Dance Mom, and Ready to Admit It
(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 with...
read more‘Walking the Walk’ in Friendship
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 with a friend....
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