by Lisa-Jo | Jul 25, 2011 | Family, Inbetween, South Africa, Travel
We’ve been back since Wednesday last week. We just finally finished unpacking tonight. And only because there was an assortment of my favorite jams, candies and cookies buried beneath the layers of clothes. Jet lag still has me hitting the sheets by 9pm and...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jul 11, 2011 | Inbetween, Kids, South Africa, Travel
My dad bounces along with Jackson on the back of an open Land rover. We’ve spent the day with elephants, meerkats, cheetahs and an assortment of snakes. The wind blows our chapped cheeks in this dry winter sunshine and our hair will be hard to untangle tonight. We are...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 7, 2011 | Blogging, Inbetween, Travel
Some days I’m ashamed of our house. {Sorry house} Other days I’m pretty sure our house is ashamed of me. The house and I? We have a love-hate relationship. Some days more hate than love. You see, it’s not really my house. I’m a renter. There, I said it. I’m a...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 26, 2010 | Family, Inbetween, Travel
I’ve spent hundreds of hours of my life in airports. And I still contend there is something magical about them. They sweep us up and out of ourselves; a moment of complete suspension, between one reality and another. And we see more reflected in the windows than...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 13, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys
I watched you–wild and fearless–in the water and saw the boy you are becoming. You laughed at the sprays, danced in the drops, gulped down a fire hydrant’s worth. I saw you at five. You have journeyed miles since four. I saw you at six, seven, eight...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 6, 2010 | A year of "no", Callings, Faith, Inbetween
So, I know I’ve been blathering on rather obliquely over the last month. About feeling lost when you’re following the spiderweb of God’s will. About discovering life after coming out of a season of “no.” About learning not to be afraid of...
