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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 10, 2010 | Family, Marriage
I had an illuminating trip with Peter a couple weeks ago. This is Peter. He is my husband of 11 years and 2 baby boys. It started at 4:30 am with a taxi ride to the airport, followed by several sausage biscuits, cini-minis and a super size coca-cola. Disgusting? Yes....
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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 7, 2010 | Faith, Travel
I pray at the kitchen sink more than anywhere else. I think it’s something to do with the soothing warm water and the fact that washing dishes is a focused task. Compared to, say, cleaning up the living room, which has me rabbit trailing between toys and books and the...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 5, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
(As transcribed from the text messages I received last week while traveling for work.) And then the babysitter said, “I KNEW they were being too quiet while I was putting away dishes. Jack let Micah into the bathroom and they’d turned the tub into a...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 3, 2010 | Faith, South Africa, Travel
A large chunk of my heart is buried under a tree that looks like this. A Jacaranda tree. They turn my hometown of Pretoria, South Africa lush purple every October. I miss that piece. It’s been two years since I buried it under a tree and boarded a plane for the...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 2, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
In the car on a crowded highway in the dark a small voice sings off key. It’s the song I have sung to him almost every day of his four and a half years. The song I have sung till I am tired of the melody and the words have lost all meaning. The song that evokes 3am...
