Five Minute Friday: Together

by Lisa-Jo | Apr 20, 2012 | Blogging, Five Minute Friday, Love me my man, Raising Boys

Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We write because we love words and the relief it is to just write them without worrying if they’re just right or not. So we take five minutes on Friday and write like we used to run when we were kids. On...

What I want my daughter to know about the mean girls

by Lisa-Jo | Apr 18, 2012 | Blogging, Daughters, Faith, Family, Girlfriends, The hard good stuff

My tiny human, my gorgeous darling, my little one – you are a girl. You are our first girl and I will never stop celebrating it.  You are a gorgeous, dimpled, delicious, just-one-year-old baby girl. And my darling, there’s some stuff that comes with being a girl that...

A super vacuum giveaway for all the super women! {Contest now closed}

by Lisa-Jo | Apr 16, 2012 | Blogging, Giveaways, Motherhood, Our crazy little rental house

UPDATED: This contest is now closed. The randomly selected winner of the might Oreck and his sidekick hand held vac is commenter number 366 – Michelle Small! Congrats, Michelle and thanks everyone else who entered. We have a Cheerios problem at our house. Also a...

Winners and sneak peek of tomorrow’s giveaway

by Lisa-Jo | Apr 15, 2012 | Blogging, Freebies, Giveaways, Motherhood

If I had a million dollars I would be sending each of you a year’s worth of Saturday night babysitting and a copy of Megan Tietz and Laura Oyer’s beautiful book Spirit-Led Parenting: From Fear to Freedom in Baby’s First Year. Because your comments over...

Five Minute Friday: Good-Bye

by Lisa-Jo | Apr 13, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, South Africa, The hard good stuff, Travel

Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We set a timer, throw caution to the winds and try to remember what it was like to just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Want to play Five Minute Friday? It’s easy peasy! 1. Write for...