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by Lisa-Jo | Jun 3, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
Interesting, isn’t it, how many of us are afraid of our bathing suits? 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 baby food, our kids’ behavior, our...
by Lisa-Jo | May 27, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Motherhood
It’s sticky hot. Pants-stuck-to-the-backs-of-your-legs hot. But once a week during the lunch hour me and my crew load up into the car without air conditioning and drive windows down, crazy hair blowing, to share life with a group of friends. We come kids, diaper bags...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 24, 2010 | A thousand gifts, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
It’s hard to start a new week with a load of worry. I’ve been carrying quite a lot of it lately. It’s heavy and uncomfortable. It’s giving me bad posture – it has me looking down instead of up. I shrug my shoulders, try to bear up under it, shift the weight around...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 17, 2010 | A thousand gifts, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood, Sweetstuff
He traces my eyebrow with one chubby finger. “You make me so happy, mama,” he whispers. We are lying nose to nose on my pillow. It’s early. We’re the only two awake. Pete snores softly on the other side of the bed. For now, this is my Micah...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 13, 2010 | Faith, Travel
This one’s for my friend, Jenny Rain. She’s in Burundi today. Burundi is in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Photograph by Bruno...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 12, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Giveaways, Travel
I live in the in between. On the grand scale it’s in between countries, families, time zones and languages. On the more every day scale it’s in between rental homes, jobs, boisterous boys and loads of dishes. Being an in between person can make it hard to feel content...
