by Lisa-Jo | May 20, 2013 | Cheering for you, Faith, Family
Contentment is a delicate bubble, isn’t it? We sit out on her back porch watching the kids play with soapy bubbles and the playground blinking through the trees in the background. It’s my favorite time of day, the sun waning and hints of fireflies flirting...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 22, 2013 | Family, Five Minute Friday, Motherhood
This week four friends have shared unique memories of their mothers with us. Here are parts one (the storytelling) and two (the mashed potatoes) and three (the laughing) and four (the imagining) in the series. It’s been a gift to unwrap each of them and wonder...
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 | Jan 21, 2013 | Cheering for you, Family, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
You’ve kept your temper all day against the onslaught of his. You’ve given grace and he’s yelled that he’s running away and started off down the block with face red and furious. You’ve chased after, you’ve told him people...
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 | Dec 3, 2012 | Daughters, Family, Motherhood
Some days when I walk into Panera – my other office – I think about how ordinary my life feels. How there don’t seem to be Instagram-worthy moments between the car seats and the goldfish crackers and the exact same route walked every single day to...
