by Lisa-Jo | Dec 8, 2014 | Blogging, Faith, Just plain hard, South Africa
I don’t know about you, but there have been so many days lately when the world feels hurt and broken and tired. And we feel hurt and broken and tired. And I want to just bury my face in Zoe’s blonde tangles and sniff in all the wonder that went missing...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 2, 2014 | (in)courage, Christmas, Faith
My kids wait to be allowed to eat the candy off their newly constructed gingerbread houses. I wait in car pool lines and at bus stops. I wait at the DMV, the grocery store check out aisle and the garage. I wait in dentist’s offices and at baseball practices. I...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 1, 2014 | Christmas, No such thing as just a mom, surprised by motherhood
Yikes, I never email you all twice in one day – but this one was too good to miss. Through midnight PST today if you use the code HOLIDAY30 at checkout on Amazon – you’ll get an additional 30% off my book (or any book for that matter!). It was too...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 30, 2014 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
Today I put together a family advent countdown calendar. For the FIRST TIME EVER IN NEARLY TEN YEARS OF PARENTING. Because that’s how long I’ve been sleep deprived. Dear Moms of Littles, listen up here because this is for you – I know this time of...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 26, 2014 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Our crazy little rental house
I am a reluctant renter. Have been for years. Our last rental house was small, it had faux bricks that constantly fell off the kitchen walls and carpets that, well, let’s just say back then we had three kids under the age of six and leave the rest up to your...
