by Lisa-Jo | Feb 18, 2013 | Blogging, Faith, Motherhood
A four part series. I’ve been thinking about how we moms want our kids to remember us. And maybe what we think will make an impression on them is very different than what they end up remembering. Maybe it’s not keeping up on the laundry or the dishes or...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 6, 2013 | Faith, Motherhood, Raising Boys
So that was a thing, eh? Lots of us with big feelings about how to respond to the media, sports, entertainment and our kids. Thank you for taking me and my hot head and processing together. I’m still processing. Probably will be for a while. Yesterday afternoon...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 23, 2013 | Cheering for you, Faith, Family
Sometimes when the world feels big and mothering and working and writing feel like they’re eating me and my time alive, I turn to the sink. There’s something about that hot water washing away all last night’s leftovers and today’s anxieties. It...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 16, 2012 | Faith, Rabid fear of parenting
We wake up in the still, quiet house with our hearts thundering in our ears and sweat sticking T-Shirts to our chests. Hair matted, fists clenched. Eyelids sticking shut trying to make sense of where we are. Where our dreams have dragged us. Every parent has...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 11, 2012 | Christmas, Faith, Family
It’ll be five years on the 27th since Pete drove down the back roads of Owosso, Michigan to a small hospital and the hard delivery of our second-born son, Micah. I could barely look at him once he made it out I was so beat. I remember the email Peter wrote to...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 14, 2012 | Blogging, Cheering for you, Faith, The book
Fear can feel a lot like quicksand. It occurs to me late at night as I lie in bed and sigh and roll and shift and think about that last chapter I wrote and what words are missing and what words need to be cut right out. Peter is spread out in the exact same position...
