by Lisa-Jo | Oct 25, 2009 | Family, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes I forget that inside this skin lives a woman who was not always a mom. And she needs to breathe too. This weekend three old friends visited and they helped me catch my breath. I didn’t even realize how long I’d been holding it until I exhaled...
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by Lisa-Jo | Oct 23, 2009 | Travel
I am South African. My husband is American. We have spent quite a bit of time in both places. Enough to have a child born in each country during our respective stays. To complicate matters further we spent a priceless nearly two and a half years in Ukraine where we...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 21, 2009 | Callings, Faith, Family, Kids
I sit in the late afternoon sun and watch my son load leaves onto his tractor. The same son who told me in no uncertain twenty-two month-old terms last night “Ear, Hurt. Docka.” It was late. The local pediatrician’s office was closing. We would have...
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by Lisa-Jo | Oct 17, 2009 | Faith, Marriage, Travel
In 1999 I got married twice. To the same guy. Once in the States and once in South Africa. Believe me, if you want to feel well and truly married, do it with back-to-back events four months apart. Because when you are picking out cakes for the second time around to...
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by Lisa-Jo | Oct 14, 2009 | Family, Kids, Raising Boys
Some days life comes at you in a fast, blurry, haze. You have to take a step back before it knocks you down. You adjust your focus and still can’t quite see things clearly. All you know for sure is that motherhood is a series of meals half eaten but never while...
