by Lisa-Jo | May 13, 2016 | Cheering for you, It Gets Better, Ordinary Glory, Rabid fear of parenting, Uncategorized
On Friday nights we all stay in. We have pizza and a movie and three kids scrunched onto a single couch cushion because this is how they like it. Except for whoever ends up in the middle. We are a family that never gets tired of a good story. By Friday night, I don’t...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 28, 2016 | (in)courage, Cheering for you
What if you didn’t listen to the mean girl in your head today? What if, instead, you decided to be kind to yourself today? What if you looked in the mirror and smiled? Instead of counted gray hairs and wrinkles. What if you didn’t step onto the scale? What if,...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 9, 2016 | Can't Buy Me Love, Cheering for you
My friend, Stephanie, is a blind date expert. Not by choice. She spent several years going on a series of some of the funniest, weirdest, and most interesting blind dates. She wrote a book about it – I Was Blind (Dating), but Now I See, which chronicles some of...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 2, 2016 | Books you should read, Cheering for you, Faith
I’m having a lot of feelings about a book that releases today. I’m sent hundreds of books to review and it’s a huge and wonderful perk of being a blogger. But this one, this one is different. I have to tell you about this book. Not because anyone...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 28, 2016 | Callings, Cheering for you, Motherhood, No more mom guilt
There are 4 things you may or may not know about me: I’m South African, but my accent these days is mostly just confused. Unless I’m using words like, tawlk or cahn’t. My husband married me knowing I emphatically did not want to be a mom. Sixteen years later we have 3...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 22, 2016 | Callings, Cheering for you
“You don’t get it mom. Kids can be cruel.” It’s what my 8 year old son told me from the bathtub where I was treating his head for lice. His eyes were red from all the crying after he saw his new buzz cut for the first time. We’d shorn him. Because of the lice. I...
