by Lisa-Jo | Apr 6, 2015 | Books you should read, Girlfriends
The older I get the more I think about friendship. I’m sitting across a cup of tea in Christie’s 100 year old farm house when I tell her, “I didn’t realize how lonely I was last year.” She’s known me since the days I swore...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 3, 2015 | Cheering for you, Faith, Just plain hard
My kids don’t wake me up at night anymore for milk. Or to get a diaper changed. When they wake me now it’s because they’ve had a nightmare and the darkness is suffocating them. And at 2 in the morning a small, timid voice will appear at the head of...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 1, 2015 | Cheering for you, surprised by motherhood
It’s one year today, since my book, Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected About Being a Mom was released! Yes, it came out on April Fool’s Day because OF COURSE. It’s like my book baby is now a toddler. And since I learned from last...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 30, 2015 | Blogging, Cheering for you
Last week over 1,000 of you answered the first blog survey I’ve ever hosted on this blog. I had to cut it off after 1,000 because whoa – a LOT of information. I now have over 150 pages of data, charts and fascinating information about you guys. For...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 26, 2015 | Cheering for you, Family, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom
After long days and nights and days again and at the end of long weeks I often wish I could reach through these words and give you each a medal. You there on the other side of the screen. You who yelled at your kids in the minivan this morning after they...
