by Lisa-Jo | Mar 4, 2014 | surprised by motherhood
I signed 300 bookplates. I thought of you as I signed them. Thought of you holding my story in your hands. And then I got all goose-bumpy. But it might just have been the snow. Or the sight of what my boys had done to the bathroom. Again. I signed 300 book plates for...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 2, 2014 | Daughters, Motherhood
“I wuv you mama, you my BEST fwend,” she mumbles from the sacred dark. She has one tiny palm pressed against each of my cheeks and she smells of baby lotion and her dad’s Doritos. The night light shoots stars and the moon into orbit around about her...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 28, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
It’s Friday, let’s write for five minutes flat. All on the same word: CHOOSE GO: The world spins in endless cycles of names flashing by in bright lights. And sometimes I’m dazzled by them and I think, why am I just sitting here in this minivan? I...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 25, 2014 | Motherhood, surprised by motherhood
So I wrote this book called Surprised by Motherhood. It comes out on April Fool’s day. Because that is the story of my life. You can click here to pre-order it. Yesterday I got my first copy. And in case you think that writing a book looks like a cross between...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 24, 2014 | Cheering for you, Faith, Just plain hard, surprised by motherhood
“You’re just no good at that.” There’s a voice that tells me this often. It’s funny how it doesn’t matter what I’m doing. I can be cooking or organizing the pantry or picking out new curtains or working on a piece of writing or figuring out how to fund a kitchen for a...
