by Lisa-Jo | Jan 18, 2016 | Faith, Girlfriends, Just plain hard
For the last few years it has become tradition for our family to spend Easter weekend in PA with Jon and Christie Purifoy at their farmhouse called Maplehurst. They’re friends who’ve known us the longest — since the days when none of us had kids yet....
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 13, 2016 | Books you should read, Cheering for you
Our Christmas tree is still up. As is the entire Christmas village. Our washing machine is still broken, but I think we are (finally!) free of the lice. I have a two day business trip out of town and my husband is lugging our laundry into work so he can borrow their...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 6, 2016 | Callings, Cheering for you, No such thing as just a mom
So here’s the lie I think we most often, most dangerously, buy into. We take that thing we love, that we’re passionate about, that we feel called to and we compare it to what other women are doing and then we belittle it by putting the word,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
We’re good at starting the New Year measuring ourselves, aren’t we? At weighing ourselves and being disappointed. At weighing our lives and our lists and our last year’s resolutions and realizing we failed to follow through. Again. We make ourselves...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 24, 2015 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Faith, Family
You guys, I’m sitting in bed in the dark close to midnight and typing this by the light of our hall closet. So you’re getting this post unedited, unretouched, unfiltered. My ten year old is curled up next to me because we have this deal on Wednesday nights...
