by Lisa-Jo | Apr 10, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, surprised by motherhood
Your broken pieces. Your awkward parts. Your jagged, learned-it-the-hard-way edges. Those pieces of yourself that you offer us, that you melt down into words and shape into stained glass truth for us to hold up to the light of our computer screens, fill us with...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 9, 2014 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
I’ve learned three things about motherhood in the last nine years. Motherhood is hard. Motherhood is glorious. And motherhood is very hard. Nothing. Nothing can properly capture a window into a mother’s world. So much magic, so much mundane, so much...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 8, 2014 | Cheering for you, Just plain hard, Ordinary Glory, surprised by motherhood
How do you measure meaning in the life of a mom? Is it in diapers changed? Loads of laundry folded? Dishes washed and stacked and put away? Is it in temper tantrums soothed, fevers treated, number of steps walked to rock babies back to sleep? What about all those...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 3, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, surprised by motherhood
I steal the time I need to write. Maybe you do too. Maybe you have young kids and a house to run and a job and writing has to happen in the fringe hours. Maybe you’re an accidental writer. Who can’t seem to quit. Me too. But here’s the thing –...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 3, 2014 | Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, surprised by motherhood
Here’s to the mothers. Here’s to the boo-boo kissers. Here’s to the get up and warm the milk at 2am women. You are braver than you know. You make the music that makes the life that gives the rhythm to the day in and out and in again. Courageous. You deliver babies by...
