Shannon Mangerchine
Shannon lives in Central City, New Orleans with her husband, Jeremy, and three sons, Noah, Eli and Zeke. She left a career in Human Resources to take on her dream of being a stay-at-home mom. During this time, she and her husband founded a non-profit called Bastion Resources with the purpose of inspiring others to live a life of intimacy with God. Shannon is passionate about creating community and engaging in meaningful conversation around the dinner table. Recently, she created The Intentional Daily Journal to help people live with more purpose and clarity, which is available for purchase on Amazon. In her free time, Shannon enjoys all types of fitness, trying new restaurants, reading and discussing books with her book club, coffee dates with friends and hanging at the park with her family. Shannon is constantly creating new healthy recipes and sharing them on her blog Dinner Done by 9am.
Making the Most of Meal Time:: 45 Family Conversation Starters to Build Connection and...
I grew up as the only child of a single mom who often had to work in the evening, so from elementary school and on, I often found myself eating dinner alone. I would...
Parenting Win :: How to Quickly and Easily Organize Your Kid’s Art for FREE...
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Parenting Win :: How to Quickly and Easily Organize Your Kid's Art for FREE with the Artebula App
My husband is an artist, so one of our core values...
30 Ways to Celebrate Teacher Appreciation While Social Distancing
Teacher Appreciation Day is May 5. Now, more than ever, after homeschooling our own children for a month, I think we all have a heightened appreciation for just how hard teaching children is and...
What Does Your Family Stand For:: Creating a Family Motto
My husband and I had a marriage motto before we ever had kids, and it happened to work well to adapt it for our whole family. Our motto is "Together or not at all."...
Processing the Pandemic :: 25 Journal Prompts for Practicing Self-Care
Throughout the first couple weeks of this quarantine, I carried on as if everything was normal, suppressing all of my emotions, burying them deep down while lying to myself, telling myself I was feeling...
Making Easter Fun and Meaningful While Staying Home
With stay-at-home mandates and social distancing in full effect, Easter is going to look different this year. Families won't be engaging in the usual public egg hunts, church services, and feasts with friends, but...
Living Through a Quarantine :: A Pantry-Based Meal Plan
Throughout the world, people are finding themselves quarantined due to sickness or government imposed shelter in place orders due to the coronavirus. This means we have a lot of people with limited access to...
Preparing for COVID-19 :: What to Stock Up On
With social distancing in full swing courtesy of the coronavirus and grocery store inventory running low in many places, it is important to stock up and be prepared in the event that your family...
Surviving COVID-19 :: 30 Fun, Cheap and Easy Boredom Busters for Kids
With schools closed as a result of the coronavirus, many of us moms are finding ourselves unexpectedly confined to the house with kids, scrambling to come up with ways to entertain them without spending...
Settling the Great Debate :: Whether to Put Your Baby on a Sleep and...
Years ago, as a brand new mom, I remember reading all of the books and articles about sleep schedules, parent-led feeding, baby-led feeding, attachment parenting, discipline styles, cloth diapering, homemade baby food, breastfeeding and...
You Want Me to Put Poop in My Washing Machine? :: Everything You Need...
Due to more environmental awareness in recent years, cloth diapering has been making a comeback. These aren’t the cloth diapers of our childhood though, the white ones that were folded and pinned in place...
4 Reasons Why You Should Make Your Picky Eaters Eat School Lunch
If you follow my Instagram feed you might incorrectly assume that my kids are great eaters and aren’t picky at all. Truth is, each of my kids is picky in their own way. They...
Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinners
With school and after school activities back in full swing we all need a few quick and easy dinners in our back pocket. Certain dinners lend themselves better to quick preparation, things like stir-fry,...
How to Choose a Word for the Year and Stay Focused on it
The basic idea behind having a word for the year is to pick one word in January that resonates with you and that you would like to focus on for the entire year. This...