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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 7, 2010 | Faith, Travel
I pray at the kitchen sink more than anywhere else. I think it’s something to do with the soothing warm water and the fact that washing dishes is a focused task. Compared to, say, cleaning up the living room, which has me rabbit trailing between toys and books and the...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 3, 2010 | Faith, South Africa, Travel
A large chunk of my heart is buried under a tree that looks like this. A Jacaranda tree. They turn my hometown of Pretoria, South Africa lush purple every October. I miss that piece. It’s been two years since I buried it under a tree and boarded a plane for the...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 28, 2010 | Callings, Faith
You know that I work full time outside the home, right? I’ve whined shared about it here often enough. Last week it took me away from home and my boys for four full days. And four days in toddler time is basically an eternity. But after I got home, wrassled my boys,...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 18, 2010 | Faith, Sweetstuff
I write because it’s one of the times I feel most like myself. I write because, like others, I need a place to re-tell my story and process it’s twists and turns. I trace my fingers over the memories of the day or last year, reading the raised braille of...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 18, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
There are a lot of things about my dad’s parenting I would change if I could go back in time. Instead, I take those memories and wring the lessons out of them that I want to be sure to unlearn as I journey through parenthood myself. But, some days I am surprised. Some...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 12, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes parenting is a sonnet. Filled with moonlit, rocking chair, baby skin-to-skin moments. But sometimes, it is just not. Sometimes there are no words to beautify the exhausting moments of parenting. There is only a new kind of carpet cleaner cracked open for the...
