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I'm Shannon. Writer and stay-at-home mom of three (boy-girl twins + another little guy). I live for coffee, reading, and a good beer. Also pedicures. This is where I scribble my thoughts about motherhood and life. Enjoy!
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It happened again. I sent babies off to school in the fall and they came back big kids. Swipe to see their first day of preschool last fall - and an even bigger throwback to their first day of preschool ever. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL WORLD HAPPENED THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS? #lifewithtwins #twinstagram #boygirltwins #lastdayofpreschool #fiveyearsold #slowdown
“Not right now, I’m doing my words!” she tells Nolan when he wanders over to the kitchen table and asks her to play, “I need to practice for Kindergarten!” . Someone is ready to move on. When I asked if she was excited or sad (or both) that today is her last day of preschool, she said excited. . “Not both?” I asked, probing. . She thought for a moment, then shook her head. “No because then I get to be in Kindergarten and I get to be gone all day at school. Doesn’t that sound fun?” . I thought back to my own days of coloring and snacks and reading and making friends. I agreed it did. . She’s been asking every day to practice these sight words, sent home from preschool to work on over the summer, trying to sound them out even though I’ve told her over and over again they don’t always sound out that well. . “Mommy, I want to be done,” she tells me, after going through a couple dozen words, most of which she needed help with. . “Okay,” I say, wondering if she’s discouraged. . “I did so good though,” she tells me before she leaves the table with her crooked grin, “I got three all by myself!” . Scratch the discouragement. . There’s a lesson here for us all I’m sure. For now, I’ll leave it at a freckled little girl who’s ready to call herself a Kindergartener and head off to school all day with some sight words in her pocket this fall. . #brooklyngirl #kindergartener #fiveyearsold #rememberthis #momlife #writingmotherhood
I am so proud of these two. (Especially Nolan - throwing those little three-year olds on stage is a big ask and he rocked his first recital!) . I asked Nolan if he wanted to dance again next year and he said, “Yes. With sparkles in my hair.” Brooklyn sighed into her cereal at breakfast this morning and said, “Recitals are just the most fun part of dancing, right mom?” . They are. And there’s just something about watching your kids enjoy something that was a huge part of your own life that brings out all the feels. 😊😭💕 @qcdance #dance #dancelife #recital #dancingfeet #dreambjg #toocutetohandle #sparkleseverywhere
“I often wonder how to explain to my children the shades of gray that exist in the world. Maybe bad guys aren’t all that bad. Maybe our country’s history is not so neatly divided into victory and defeat. Unfortunately, if there’s anything children are terrible at, it’s nuance. . My own early education largely glossed over the uncomfortable truths of slavery, sexism, racism, and xenophobia in America’s past. History was often presented through the rosiest of rose-colored glasses… . It wasn’t until I sought out a more balanced view of history that I found a more complete story to our nation’s past. . I wonder how I can introduce these truths to my children.” {new post, Raising the Good Guys and Bad Guys, featured over @shelovesmag, link in profile} #raisinghumans #momlife #lifewithpreschoolers #feminist #nuance
Another bedtime conversation (overheard after giving them a consequence for having to remind them over and over again that it was time to settle down): . B: I don’t like that mommy gave us a consequence. C: Me either. B: Maybe we should give HER a consequence. C: Like what? B: Let’s take all her money. C: We don’t know where it is. B: Oh yeah. Good thinking. . Also, the joke is on them because they already DO take all my money. 😂 . #lifewithtwins #boygirltwins #twinstagram #toocool #momlife #rememberthis #takemymoney
Remember when this was all covered with mountains of snow? And the thought that we would ever see green grass or wear shorts again seemed laughable, if not impossible? . Well FYI, spring came. Just like it always does. And I am so, so grateful. 💕 . #threelittlewilliams #springtime #letthembelittle #tuesdayafternoon #itssimplytuesday #preschoolerlife
Mother’s Day looked like a bed full of bagels, coffee, flowers, homemade cards, and wiggly little bodies. It looked like a morning at church followed by a lunch of enchiladas with all the fixings. It looked like dishes and wiping bottoms and talking about listening ears. It looked like grilling burgers for dinner with family. It looked like a gift that I’m told is still somewhere in the mail. And it looked like watching airplanes before dropping Tyson off at the airport for a week-long work trip...because that’s one way to be brought right back into the real world. (It’s going to look like a face mask and some freshly painted nails tonight to compensate. 💅🏻) . Happy Mother’s Day, however today looked for you. 💕 #threelittlewilliams #momlife #mothersday
I mean...*technically* everyone is in the picture... . (Mother’s Day Photo Challenge Day Five: Mom Truth) #threelittlewilliams #momlife #twincitiesmom #mnmama #itried #AH_ECFELovesMoms2019
“At our ‘old’ (read: just two months ago) church, I was in charge of the volunteers in the birth-Kindergarten children’s ministry area. I filled snack cups, checked nametags, paged parents, sent out reminder emails, and led huddle for our group, filling them in on announcements and coming up with some sort of inspiration for the hour. The night before my last day, I sat with my laptop and a notebook, searching for the words to tell my group I was leaving. How did I tell them we’d found a different church? How did I tell them I just couldn’t stay here anymore? It didn’t take long for me to search Rachel Held Evans’ blog, to scroll through the archives and find the one titled ‘Life After Evangelicalism’. It was there I found her words to sum up my decision. It was Rachel’s words I so often turned to when I couldn’t find words of my own. When my own brain was in tumult, she projected clarity. She was a writers’ writer and a thinker’s thinker; someone who could harness into words what felt trapped in my own head.” {new post, My Own Search for Sunday, link in profile} #rhe #becauseofrhe #faith #deconstruction #eschetchayil

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