Dear Moms of Littles – Here’s Your “*Don’t* Have To Do Holiday List” – You’re Welcome

by Lisa-Jo | Nov 23, 2015 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting

Last year was the first time I cooked a Thanksgiving turkey and put together a family advent countdown calendar. The FIRST TIME EVER IN NEARLY TEN YEARS OF PARENTING. Because that’s how long I’ve been sleep deprived. Dear Moms of Littles, listen up here...

What Christmas Says About Your Body as a Woman

by Lisa-Jo | Dec 16, 2014 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Love the body you've got, Motherhood

The thing about becoming a mother for the first time is how much it changes your body. And how little you expect that. No one warned me about that part. I didn’t have a mother to tell me that the pre-baby jeans I brought to the hospital I would absolutely not be...

If This Whole Year Has Felt Like Wasted Waiting And You’re About Ready to Give Up – Read This

by Lisa-Jo | Dec 10, 2014 | Christmas, Faith

Click here to listen the the audio recording of this post – a Christmas story for you as told by me. Christmas tells the once upon a time story of what happened when the whole earth and every person on it had been waiting. Waiting with bated breath and broken...

When You Need to Remember That Waiting Isn’t a Waste of Your Time or Your Life

by Lisa-Jo | Dec 2, 2014 | (in)courage, Christmas, Faith

My kids wait to be allowed to eat the candy off their newly constructed gingerbread houses. I wait in car pool lines and at bus stops. I wait at the DMV, the grocery store check out aisle and the garage. I wait in dentist’s offices and at baseball practices. I...

Deal Alert: How to Get My Book for 30% Off and Personally Signed In Time for Christmas

by Lisa-Jo | Dec 1, 2014 | Christmas, No such thing as just a mom, surprised by motherhood

Yikes, I never email you all twice in one day – but this one was too good to miss. Through midnight PST today if you use the code HOLIDAY30 at checkout on Amazon – you’ll get an additional 30% off my book (or any book for that matter!). It was too...

If You’re a Mom of Littles Stressing All the Christmas Traditions it’s OK to Make Like Elsa and “Let It Go” This Holiday Season

by Lisa-Jo | Nov 30, 2014 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting

Today I put together a family advent countdown calendar. For the FIRST TIME EVER IN NEARLY TEN YEARS OF PARENTING. Because that’s how long I’ve been sleep deprived. Dear Moms of Littles, listen up here because this is for you – I know this time of...