by Lisa-Jo | Jul 23, 2012 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
I promise you, you will get lots of things wrong this week. You will lose your temper. You will say words you wish you could swallow. You will be frustrated and frazzled and tired and unable to face the dishes in the sink. You will feel scared and uncertain and unable...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 16, 2012 | Blogging, Cheering for you, Compassion, Faith, Family, Travel
We come home from the lake and even I am sun tanned as much as someone with an English father and Dutch mother can be. All those minnows and mornings on the quiet of a lake that’s seen my husband, his mother and his grandfather all grow up calm me. The quiet water...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 12, 2012 | Cheering for you, Girlfriends, Kids, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
In the last week alone I have ordered food from the McDonald’s drive through window, paid for the food, and then driven off without it. I have taken the highway I can drive in my sleep in the wrong direction and had to go all the way to the airport to turn...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 10, 2012 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
It doesn’t help me to think you have it all together. It doesn’t help me if your house is immaculate for the three hours this week that I come over to visit. If your kids are perfectly groomed. To see your menu planned for the entire week. To believe that...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 28, 2012 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, The ordinary extraordinary
I look around our cluttered playroom and tell myself when it looks like the ones I’ve seen on Pinterest I’ll start a list of fun projects for the kids. I look at my kitchen and tell myself when I can find the Tupperware lids and have invested in some decent pots and...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 26, 2012 | Cheering for you, Daughters, Faith, Motherhood, Uncategorized
There’s an uncomfortable part of my arms I do not like. Between shoulder and elbow there’s a sort of soft, squishy no-man’s land that testifies to my love for sugar and the three kids who make finding time for lifting weights more complicated than...
