Meet Shannon…
Hello! My name is Shannon and I’m happy you stopped by! Twenty years ago I left my family and “city-life” in the South to come to a small town in the midwest with my husband. Three kids and a couple of dogs later I find my life full to the brim… and often overflowing onto my running shoes! I spend my time trying to remember which child to pick up when, gulping coffee, eating icing and working hard to find and follow the path that God has set out before me.
Just Do It
So....I finally did it. (Nike would be so proud of me.) I finally came up with a solution to something that had been bugging me for longer than I care to remember...and I got it done. It wasn't life-shattering or destiny-altering by any means. In fact, my family...
read moreVictory Lap!
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 total failure....
read moreClean Slate
Every morning is new. EVERY. MORNING. Those regrets that come crashing into your consciousness the moment you're awake enough to realize them? They don't have a right to you. Chances are…. You messed up yesterday. Maybe big….maybe small….but I'd surmise there is...
read more10 Things (mostly) Under $7 That Make Me Smile
The Sleep Cycle app. I am kind of addicted to it. It's a free app that monitors how well you sleep at night...but that's not all--no that's not all. Somehow it uses your phone's microphone to figure out how deeply you are (or aren't) sleeping, how many hours you're...
read moreHow Many Moments in a Day?
When my eldest was little, probably around two and a half, I took him to an amusement park about two hours away. We went, just us, and spent the day wandering around doing whatever we wanted. Of course there were lots of crazy-long lines and super overpriced food, but...
read moreSwitching Tracks
Have you ever seen a train switch tracks? It's not something I'd recommend for regular entertainment. But...when you're sitting front and center as the first car behind the blinking striped railroad crossing barrier, trapped between that and 4 minivans with a carload...
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