by Louise | May 26, 2016 | Dessert, Empower, Food, Louise, Recipes, Uncategorized
School’s out! For the first week at least, we’ve been BUSY! One daughter had an overnight class trip, one is working ahead on her required volunteer service for next semester and my son is, um, “taking it easy” for a few days. I know things...
by Shannon | May 19, 2016 | Encourage, Shannon, Uncategorized
There’s something about increments of ‘5’ that make us sit up and take notice. We celebrate those anniversaries (5th, 10th, 25th etc) as more monumental than others. Why? No idea. It’s just one of those generally accepted societal truths. To...
by Louise | Apr 28, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Uncategorized
There is a cool new app out right now called Tip Yourself (props to my husband for discovering it first). It’s a finance app, and the theory is that if you tip service professionals for a job well done, why not tip yourself? You connect the app to your bank...
by Louise | Apr 17, 2016 | Faith, Inspire, Louise, Uncategorized
My twins turned 15 last week so we have 2 new permit-drivers in the family. I won’t embarrass them here – they’re doing as well as can be expected with five days’ experience on city streets. (And as a passenger, I’ve cut the gasping and...
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...
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