by Lisa-Jo | Jul 16, 2012 | Blogging, Cheering for you, Compassion, Faith, Family, Travel
We come home from the lake and even I am sun tanned as much as someone with an English father and Dutch mother can be. All those minnows and mornings on the quiet of a lake that’s seen my husband, his mother and his grandfather all grow up calm me. The quiet water...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 11, 2012 | Family, Motherhood, Travel
Our family is off to the lake and the woods on vacation this week. Where there’s no Internet. So I’m sharing five of my favorite posts from the last couple years while I’m gone. I hope they’ll be favorites for you too. Wishing you watermelon...
by Lisa-Jo | May 31, 2012 | Family, Motherhood, Our crazy little rental house
We all have them, right? Those things around the house – those chores, those foibles, those weird little nooks and crannies that we would really rather avoid. Would rather put our feet up on the furniture, lick the brownie bowl and pretend we don’t see. Or...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 18, 2012 | Blogging, Daughters, Faith, Family, Girlfriends, The hard good stuff
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-one-year-old baby girl. And my darling, there’s some stuff that comes with being a girl that...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 10, 2012 | Family, Giveaways, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
I’ve often felt motherhood was a test I was failing. Less so lately. But at the sleep-deprived beginning I would read all those books that tell you when the baby should be sleeping and when the baby should be eating and when the baby should be this, that, and...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 9, 2012 | Family, Inbetween, Kids, South Africa, Travel
We are the sum total of our stories. So when we sit down at the computer and open a vein we offer life to someone else. We pour out what we’ve learned or failed to learn as a lifeline to someone else. We offer our stories across computer screens,...
