by Lisa-Jo | Oct 30, 2012 | 31 days to write your story, Faith, Family
So I sit in the dark as Sandy rages outside and our family sleeps in one room tonight. I sit in the old white rocker listening to Zoe breathe and the winds howl and I know why we need your words. Even in a storm. Especially in a storm. Because if no one wrote it down...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 12, 2012 | Faith, Family
I’m getting older in all the best ways. I know who I am and don’t hide from it anymore. I’ve been away from home five days and coming back is like slipping into your most comfortable sweat pants and having someone hand you a cup of hot chocolate....
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 5, 2012 | Blogging, Cheering for you, Faith
Interesting, isn’t it, how many of us are afraid that someone else will do our dreams better than we could? And then there are our jeans, our noses, our dress sizes, our cooking skills, our choices about what diapers to put on our kids, whether we will make our own...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 29, 2012 | Faith, Motherhood, Raising Boys
Dear Jackson and Micah, Sons, you’re both fast asleep in the bunk bed next door and I’m sitting here wrapped in the blue and gold Michigan blanket that Micah got in Traverse City this year. It’s early and even Wolfie isn’t awake yet. I need to...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 27, 2012 | Faith, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
Dear mom, I turned 38 yesterday. It rained. We had planned for family photos in the afternoon and instead we were soaked with the inevitable – families make plans and the heavens map their own course regardless. I had blow dried my hair for half an hour and in 8...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 23, 2012 | Blogging, Callings, Cheering for you, Faith, Social media
She was one of the last people in line after I got done talking about blogging and callings and the motherhood juggle. I could hear the urgency in her voice. What happens if someone else steals my dream while I’m waiting? What if they write my idea first before...
