Life With Ladybug

By Shannon Magsam In an effort to be healthier, my daughter and I are having a “step-off”. This morning, like we have every morning for a week, we put on our clothes and then strapped […]

A few weeks ago, I took my tweeny-bopper to her first concert with a few friends — one of mine and  one of hers (plus a little sister). Taylor Swift rocked the BOK in Tulsa […]

By Shannon Magsam I’ll be honest: I’ve considered booking a boudoir session with a professional photographer. Some of my friends have shown me their beautiful (classy) (tasteful) boudoir shots and we’ve joked, “We’ll be happy […]

So we’re two weeks into summer break and Ladybug and I are already busy knocking out our Summer Bucket Lists. Last year (inspired by the back of a Chick-fil-A kid’s meal bag), my daughter took […]

By Shannon Magsam, nwaMotherlode.com co-founder and Ladybug’s mama Lately, I keep hearing the admonition that life can’t be lived behind a computer. That to write words people want to read, you have to get out […]

By Shannon Magsam So I mentioned recently that we’ve become chicken farmers. Yep [chews tobacco, spits]. We have three little hens: one black, one red and one speckled. They’re only a few months old, so […]

By Shannon Magsam On the 3-hour drive to my parents’ house to celebrate Mother’s Day last Friday night, my husband, Ladybug and I were chatting happily. Suddenly, we noticed a car was speeding up the […]

By Shannon Magsam, mama of 1 Remember when your kids were tiny babies and you were so protective of their “soft spot”? You guarded it, you might have even obsessed about making sure nothing hit […]