by Louise | Oct 15, 2021 | Encourage, Faith, Louise, Parenting, Uncategorized
After years of writing (here, in my journal, and in my millions of half-finished notebooks around the house) about life with kids and navigating their baby years, tween years and teenage years, it’s finally here: the dreaded “empty nest.” We dropped...
by Shannon | Oct 7, 2018 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
You know the expression, Everything comes around again?” Well, in case you were wondering, I’m here to tell you that it’s true. Everything does. Everything. For example: Those super high-waisted jeans that I wore in the first few years of college?...
by Shannon | Aug 15, 2018 | Encourage, Parenting, Shannon
‘Twas the night before school starts and all through the home, The children were sleeping because I took their phones. My kids and my spouse were all tucked into bed, And I knew I should join them, but thoughts filled my head… Had I signed all the forms...
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 Louise | Aug 15, 2017 | Encourage, Louise, Parenting, Uncategorized
School is about to start again, and I’m trying my best to wring some “summer” out of these last August days before we step onto the treadmill of school routines, evening sports and nonstop activity. But the last week or so has been very un-summery....
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