by Lisa-Jo | Dec 5, 2012 | Callings, Cheering for you, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
I talk a lot here about how small a mother’s routine can feel. Perhaps, however, I don’t talk enough about how big the impact of that routine can be. Celebrating the small is directly related to recognizing the massive, Kingdom impact. Kids are forever....
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 3, 2012 | Daughters, Family, Motherhood
Some days when I walk into Panera – my other office – I think about how ordinary my life feels. How there don’t seem to be Instagram-worthy moments between the car seats and the goldfish crackers and the exact same route walked every single day to...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 30, 2012 | Christmas, Five Minute Friday
After years of living all over the world my husband and I have a theory: “people are people are people.” {Especially kids, heh.} And when you all show up here every Friday for what’s nearly two years straight now, with your gut-punchingly awesome...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 29, 2012 | (in)courage, Girlfriends
The thing about women is that we always assume the girl next door, the women across the aisle, the mom in the car pool lane, your husband’s best friend’s wife, your cousin, great aunt or the stranger in the dressing room next to you at the mall has it...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 27, 2012 | Christmas, Family, South Africa
Christmas in South Africa was always hot. Kids gathered around the tree, sunburns still stinging. “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” pounding hopefully out over the radio. Our tree was always a live one and the years we gathered at Ouma and...
