by Lisa-Jo | Mar 26, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you, Girlfriends
This past week our family was so sick we couldn’t see straight. It was a 72-hour marathon of toilets and buckets and bowls, and the laundry running round the clock on repeat. One by one I watched each kid succumb until it was finally my turn. Pete was the last...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 23, 2015 | Blogging
UPDATED: Well we hit our goal number of survey responses WAY faster than I ever imagined. A thousand thanks for sharing!! This survey is now closed. And I look forward to sharing some of the fun findings! I’ve been blogging here for seven years now. That’s...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 12, 2015 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, Ordinary Glory
You know how some nights you are just tired and run down and it’s 10pm and there’s STILL one straggler kid who isn’t asleep yet and all you really want is to crawl into bed with that book you can’t seem to get past chapter 3 on because...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 10, 2015 | Faith, Ordinary Glory
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, 2015 | Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, Rabid fear of parenting, surprised by motherhood, Uncategorized
Before we got married, I told my husband that I didn’t plan to have children. I may not have put it quite as politely as that. But I was carrying around a gut wound of leftover childhood junk, and it had convinced me that I’d rather run far away than have kids. It was...
