Life With Ladybug

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama “Honey, it looks like on our anniversary this year you were taking a steroid,” I called out from the kitchen as I looked at the 2/26/08 date on the Prednisone […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama December 2007: I sat on my 5-year-old daughter’s bed at 10:28 on a school night silently berating myself for letting her drink hot chocolate at Tim’s Pizza earlier. We had […]

By Shannon, a little cowgirl’s mama Pink boots, the color of princess cupcake frosting, with a little steel toe. So cute I want to eat them with a spoon. And with Ladybug standing in them […]

Where do babies come from? It’s the classic question, the one we all anticipate when we have kids. I have to admit I’ve always taken the cowardly route when it came to answering my daughter’s […]

By Shannon, Ladybug’s mama Driving home from my parent’s house this past weekend it hit me that summer is officially over. Yes, the sun will still be beating down relentlessly and the calendar will still […]

I had a wii fit recently. You see, the little people inside the Wii Fit game system recently told me I was, um, well … that I was fat and 40! There. I said it. […]

We’re driving down the road and Ladybug is begging for a Chihuahua. I list all the reasons she can’t have one. We drive along in silence for a while. Then she announces, “I feel like […]

Sometimes I feel like that matchmaker who’s on a double date with the couple I’m fixing up. I keep throwing interesting tidbits out there, trying to make my two friends look as wonderful to each […]