by Lisa-Jo | Aug 26, 2016 | Can't Buy Me Love, Daughters, Family, motherless daughter, Uncategorized
)) Here it is. 42. I made it to my mom’s age. What an astounding thing to be able to look around the world through eyes that have now seen as much as hers did. And I can testify with her that God is good. And while life can feel broken and hard, I will never...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 22, 2016 | It Gets Better, Ordinary Glory, The ordinary extraordinary
I haven’t written in a long time because there has been so much to say. Counter-intuitive, I know. But that’s sometimes how summers are. You hope they’ll be long and slow and dreamy and instead they sort of run over you like kids through the...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 12, 2016 | It Gets Better, Love the body you've got, Motherhood
If you’re a mom then at some point you’ve had to deal with a diaper blowout in public. But the story I read by Jordan Watts about what happened to them in a Chick-Fil-A bathroom is like the apocalypse meets a kid’s upset stomach. There really are no...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 3, 2016 | Books you should read, Giveaways
I’ll admit it. I’m a TOTAL SKEPTIC when it comes to happiness. I’m always convinced that any kind of happiness is basically just the opening act for terrible disaster or tragedy. The second my life starts to spark with some happiness, I begin to...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 1, 2016 | (in)courage
My daughter comes to me with snot and tears streaked down her face and asks between wails, “Do you still love me, Mama? Even when I’m crabby?” She then bursts into more sobs as I take her small frame onto my lap and wipe the hair out of her eyes. I...
