by Lisa-Jo | Nov 11, 2013 | Daughters, Motherhood
When did we learn to hate our bodies? I’m trying to find the line in time. The point between then and now that explains the how –how our daughters can go from running with abandon on unselfconscious legs to running for the work of losing those last few...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 11, 2013 | Daughters
We sit in an exhausted circle of pink shag carpet on her hardwood bedroom floor. Spent. The nebulizer is humming and I’m holding the little fishy shaped face mask to her mouth. Her sweaty cheek is pressed against the crook of my elbow and her curls are tickling...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 20, 2013 | Daughters, Motherhood
I’m tired and she’s tired. And she’s been weeping with frustration, her face a smudge of red cheeks and snotty trails. I go down on my knees beside her little, chubby legs. They’re curving over the edge of her green froggy potty stool and she is glaring...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 10, 2013 | Daughters, Faith, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
My tiny human, my gorgeous darling, my little one – you are a girl. You are our first girl and I will never stop celebrating it. You are a gorgeous, dimpled, delicious, just-two-year-old baby girl. And my darling, there’s some stuff that comes with being a girl that I...
by Lisa-Jo | May 14, 2013 | Daughters, Faith, Giveaways
Nothing has made me more aware of my relationship with my body than having a daughter. I want to be the mom in the mirror my daughter will look up to; I want us both to grow comfortable in our own skins and for that reason I’m so grateful for the tools, stories, and...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 19, 2013 | Daughters, Motherhood
Where to begin? How is it possible to have two children and still not know all there is to know about being a mom? She was unexpected. A secret I unwrapped on the morning of my 36th birthday. A third baby. And weeks later I would learn that she was a girl and it would...
