by Lisa-Jo | Feb 18, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
There are a lot of things about my dad’s parenting I would change if I could go back in time. Instead, I take those memories and wring the lessons out of them that I want to be sure to unlearn as I journey through parenthood myself. But, some days I am surprised. Some...
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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 15, 2010 | Family
So, you’ve seen it on the news, you’ve read about it online, you’ve followed the tweets. Now, here’s our insider’s perspective on what six straight days stuck inside due to back-to-back blizzards looks like and what we learned. 1. Table...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 12, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes parenting is a sonnet. Filled with moonlit, rocking chair, baby skin-to-skin moments. But sometimes, it is just not. Sometimes there are no words to beautify the exhausting moments of parenting. There is only a new kind of carpet cleaner cracked open for the...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 11, 2010 | Sweetstuff
I am most myself when I am buried nose deep in the well-thumbed pages of a favorite, familiar, beloved book. I am most myself when I am rocking, cheek-to-cheek, breathing in the sweet breath of one of our slumbering boys. I am most myself when I am sitting in the back...
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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 10, 2010 | Faith
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm: He said: “Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?” “Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.” “Have you entered the storehouses of the...
