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Ladybug, Ladybug: Keeping It Classy in a Buggy World

Compiled by Kari Hoglund Kounkel · 13 Chapters by 13 Women

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Blooming into the world

Coming Soon

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

The Book

Dignity and delight were
never supposed to be enemies.

This one's for every woman — the married, the single, and the ones stuck somewhere in the confusing middle we lovingly call The Halfsies.

There is room here for women who are thriving. Women who are rebuilding. Women who are exhausted, healing, becoming. Women who wear pearls and women who keep glue sticks, bobby pins, and cough drops floating in the bottom of their purse like a survival kit from a minor apocalypse.

You belong here too.

13 chapters. 13 flowers. 13 verses.
With plenty of space for you — because this was never a performance you watched from the audience. It's a table you joined.

Meet the Collaborators

13 Chapters. 13 Voices. 13 Flowers.

Each chapter reveals how one woman has navigated this buggy, buggy world. It starts with her verse and ends with her signature flower.

Chapter One · Trust
The Iris
The Iris
Iris Harris
Proverbs 31:25
Chapter Two · Think
The Marigold
The Marigold
Kari Hoglund Kounkel
Romans 12:2
Chapter Three · Act
The Sunflower
The Sunflower
Laurie Geisse
Proverbs 31:26
Chapter Four · Dress
The Rose
The Rose
Elizabeth West-Myers
1 Peter 3:3–4
Chapter Five · Speak
The Wildflower
The Wildflower
Lynn Dirkes
Ephesians 4:29
Chapter Six · Wait
The Lily
The Lily
Emily Kounkel
Lamentations 3:25–26
Chapter Seven · Walk
The Daisy
The Daisy
Jill Rosnow
Micah 6:8
Chapter Eight · Heal
The Lotus
The Lotus
Aprilynn Mauer
Psalm 147:3
Chapter Nine · Hope
The Forget-Me-Not
The Forget-Me-Not
Amy Theisen Walz
Romans 15:13
Chapter Ten · Work
The Violet
The Violet
April Beachem
Colossians 3:23–24
Chapter Eleven · Shine
The Morning Glory
The Morning Glory
Nicole Kounkel
Matthew 5:14–16
Chapter Twelve · Build
The Poppy
The Poppy
Zona Gutzwiller
Proverbs 14:1
Chapter Thirteen · You
The Thirteenth
YOU
1 Peter 2:9

The Cast

Meet the Legacy Ladies

Five voices who wander through the pages like holy aunties — opinions, lipstick, emotional-support casseroles, and the audacity to tell you the truth.

Junebug McGrath
Junebug McGrath
Micah 6:8
Meera Patel
Meera Patel
Proverbs 31:25
Charlene DuBois
Charlene DuBois
James 5:12
Trixie Ramone
Trixie Ramone
Matthew 5:16
LaToya Buchanan
LaToya Buchanan
Ephesians 6:10–11

The Rhythm

What's inside every chapter

Soil & Seed
The teaching — where the truth gets planted.
Ladybug Landing
A true story from a real woman's life.
Aphid Alley
Where ladybugs hunt pests — and so do you.
Bug-Off Box™
Sanctified rebellion with props and glitter.
Ladybug Lesson
The one thing to carry into the week.

From the Legacy Ladies

Ladybug Wisdom

A word from the Ladies — one for every chapter. Swipe the garden. 🪲

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Free Companion

The Ladybug Garden Kit

A free printable to walk the book one bloom at a time — the Manifesto, the thirteen flowers, and a pot to plant them in. Finish a chapter, plant a flower. The thirteenth flower is you.

The fully bloomed Ladybug Garden — twelve flowers plus a thirteenth outline for you to fill in
1
Print it — cardstock if you have it, copy paper works just fine.
2
Cut out the pot and the twelve flowers.
3
Finish a chapter, add that flower to your pot — however you like to build.
13
The thirteenth flower is you. Draw it, paint it, press a real one — then show us what you grew.
Download the Garden Kit 🌸

We’d Love to See What You Grew

Show us your garden

When your garden is complete — or your story is ready — send it our way. Your bloom might be the one that encourages the next lady still finding her petals.

Every garden is read by a real human before anything is ever shared.

The Series

Things I Didn’t Tell You

The gentle, sideways-honest series running alongside the launch. Read the things that didn’t make the book — then, when you’re ready, tell me yours.

Read the series

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