by Lisa-Jo | Dec 30, 2012 | Blogging
I feel a bit tongue tied tonight. It’s late afternoon and I have a few quiet hours to knock out some words. But when you’ve been quiet for a week it can be hard to remember how to write. We’ve been five days in a farm house in Pennsylvania with...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 24, 2012 | Christmas
All I want is to be in church. Right in the deep of the service in a row not far from the front. In a sea of my favorite Christmas carols, letting the music wash over me and my tired, end-of-year self. I want to sink into that place of remembering what happened that...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 16, 2012 | Faith, Rabid fear of parenting
We wake up in the still, quiet house with our hearts thundering in our ears and sweat sticking T-Shirts to our chests. Hair matted, fists clenched. Eyelids sticking shut trying to make sense of where we are. Where our dreams have dragged us. Every parent has...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 13, 2012 | Blogging, Cheering for you, Motherhood, Writing
Five Minute Friday is on break until the New Year. To catch it’s breath. To reflect. To listen more than write. To rest. We’ll start fresh in January. And then we’ll write our fingers off together again in five minutes flat every Friday. It’ll be the...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 11, 2012 | Christmas, Faith, Family
It’ll be five years on the 27th since Pete drove down the back roads of Owosso, Michigan to a small hospital and the hard delivery of our second-born son, Micah. I could barely look at him once he made it out I was so beat. I remember the email Peter wrote to...
