by Lisa-Jo | Dec 13, 2010 | Christmas, Faith, Family, South Africa, Travel
As we travel toward December 25th, I will be marking the four weeks of Advent with this series – Pregnant with Christmas. You can read part one here and part two over here. With one child born two days after Christmas and my tummy full of another one right now,...
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by Lisa-Jo | Dec 10, 2010 | Christmas, Faith, Family
In early memory, mission music was ringing around my nursery door. I was born in Zululand. And lived my first three years there before moving inland again in South Africa. My dad was a recently graduated doctor working on a remote mission hospital. My mom was brave....
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 9, 2010 | Faith, Travel
I couldn’t speak a work of Russian when we arrived in Ukraine. Nor any Ukrainian either, come to think of it. It never occurred to me that I wouldn’t be able to read street signs, subway maps or store fronts. I felt like I was two years old all over again....
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 7, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood
I was asked that in an interview. How do you encourage/support/champion kids? And my answer was simple: encourage/support/champion their mothers. Because the every-dayness of every day can get moms down. The routine. The one more load of wash. The endless round trips...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 5, 2010 | Faith, Motherhood
As we travel toward December 25th, I will be marking the four weeks of Advent with this series – Pregnant with Christmas. With one child born two days after Christmas and my tummy full of another one right now, so many of my thoughts are on that teenage mother...
