by Lisa-Jo | Sep 4, 2014 | Book Club, Just plain hard, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting, surprised by motherhood
There is nothing you can do, nothing you can say, nothing you can throw up, spit up, shout up that will make me love you less. There is nothing you can do wrong and nothing you can do right that will make me love you more. I love you as is. Period. Full stop. I love...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 2, 2014 | Daughters, Faith, motherless daughter, No such thing as just a mom
I knew a woman who was diagnosed with leukemia the year she turned 40. She died two years later. I turned 40 last week. And that woman was my mother. If I had two years left to live what would I do with them? If my days were numbered and my breath all counted out,...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 31, 2014 | Cheering for you, Just plain hard
There were two years in South Africa that were both the worst and most wonderful of my life. It made it easy to stay home on Sundays and get lost in a book or a TV show instead of a church service. Because there was always this lingering sense of showing up in a place...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 29, 2014 | Book Club, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, Rabid fear of parenting, surprised by motherhood
You might not have grown up thinking you wanted to be a mom. I know I didn’t. You might have dodged clichés like barefoot and pregnant as wild as any schoolboy dodges bruises and humiliation in the helter skelter of dodge ball. You might have prayed desperate...
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by Lisa-Jo | Aug 27, 2014 | Book Club, Cheering for you, surprised by motherhood
Sneaking in here with a fun announcement – on MONDAY 9/8 I’ll be kicking off an online Book Club for Surprised by Motherhood!!! We’re calling it a “Back to School Book Club for Moms” – because, really, at this time of year after...
