by Shannon | May 23, 2018 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
A lifetime ago…or maybe just a childhood ago….I stood over an isolate in the NICU staring at a wrinkly smushed little creature with a purplish bruised head. He was hooked up to wires and tubes as the machines around him hummed and beeped and I put my carefully washed...
by Gwen | Oct 13, 2017 | Encourage, Gwen, Parenting
I love Joplin. I just do. We went to the high school football game this evening, and the stadium was sprinkled with people that will put a smile on your face. The weather was gorgeous and the aroma of the concession stand was nostalgic. I looked down into the...
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 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 Shannon | Dec 31, 2015 | Parenting
The other night the kids and I watched the final episode of a Disney show. It’s a cute little thing that’s been running for a few years….and a miracle form of entertainment in the fact that ALL of my kids actually enjoy watching it together. So they were...
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