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by Lisa-Jo | May 17, 2010 | A thousand gifts, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood, Sweetstuff
He traces my eyebrow with one chubby finger. “You make me so happy, mama,” he whispers. We are lying nose to nose on my pillow. It’s early. We’re the only two awake. Pete snores softly on the other side of the bed. For now, this is my Micah...
by Lisa-Jo | May 14, 2010 | Family, Motherhood, Sweetstuff
Third generation blue eyes. Wrinkles that laugh in lines down creased cheeks. My mom’s lopsided smile. Motherhood in every nook and cranny, where there never used to be a nook and cranny. The happy kind of tired. OK, your...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 13, 2010 | Faith, Travel
This one’s for my friend, Jenny Rain. She’s in Burundi today. Burundi is in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Photograph by Bruno...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 12, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Giveaways, Travel
I live in the in between. On the grand scale it’s in between countries, families, time zones and languages. On the more every day scale it’s in between rental homes, jobs, boisterous boys and loads of dishes. Being an in between person can make it hard to feel content...
by Lisa-Jo | May 10, 2010 | Callings, Faith
There is a dark thing that hides at the fringes of my faith. I can feel it there. Lurking in the shadows. Waiting. Waiting for the day that the diaper genie bag rips stinky wide open when I try to remove it last thing at night. Waiting for the unkind word from someone...
