by Lisa-Jo | Jan 10, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
Fridays are pizza for dinner days. Fridays are leave the dishes, break out the paper plates nights. Fridays are forget the laundry, curl up with a good movie evenings. Fridays are write for just five minutes and forget the voices of fear that tell you you’re not...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 8, 2014 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, Ordinary Glory, Raising Boys
Son, here’s the thing. Sometimes come 9pm mama is just flat out done. So when you peer down from that top bunk bed eye to eye with me and question the end of your day with the everlasting, “but whyyyyy?,” a small world flashes before my eyes....
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 6, 2014 | Daughters, Faith, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
We were in the middle of a snow ball fight outside Gedney hall my senior year of college when he said it. Justin Myers said to me, “No fair if you turn sideways, ’cause then you’re an invisible target.” While everyone else laughed it took me a...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 3, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
Kick off your blogging year with a flash mob of writers —>Click to Tweet that. Where a beautiful crowd spends five minutes all writing on the same topic and then sharing them over here. It’s like free writing therapy for the tongue-tied, tired, or...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 2, 2014 | Eating Scripture, Faith
Of course there are one hundred things I’d like to do differently. But there’s this one that keeps coming back like a nagging, desperate voice that I can’t tune out anymore. The kids are still getting up at 6 in the morning with jet lag and...
