by Lisa-Jo | Feb 13, 2015 | Cheering for you, South Africa, Take Action
I don’t know about you, but the holidays with expectations attached to them can be really difficult. Mother’s Day is like that for me. And so is Valentine’s Day. Because there are all these built in expectations that tend to morph into unspoken...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 11, 2015 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, No more mom guilt, No such thing as just a mom
Sometimes I stand at mixers in Washington, DC and listen to people introduce themselves. It’s the most fascinating experience. All these walking, talking business cards. And their business is good and strong and brave most of the time. And very interesting. But...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 3, 2015 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, No more mom guilt
…this guest post from one of my mom friends and mentors, prayer warriors and fellow mom guilt survivors, Stacey Thacker…. I shut the door to my bedroom, well past eleven o’clock, and headed to my bathroom. Monday behaved as expected and, to be honest, got...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 26, 2015 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, Rabid fear of parenting
I had no clue how to be a mom. I had never done any real babysitting, never dreamed about my future kids, never wished for motherhood. And I had no idea that the labor continues long after the delivery. Consequently the first year of Jackson’s life was about the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 7, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you
Want to know what’s unnerving? Writing about your insecurities. But sometimes writing them down is the first step to unraveling them. This month at (in)courage we’re doing a series about insecurity. And speaking God’s truth into the lie of our own...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 30, 2014 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom
So here’s the thing – I don’t typically do resolutions. Or pick one word for the new year. I clean my house. I try to arrange some kind of order back into the medicine closet. I sort through my daughter’s clothes and tidy her room. I make the...
