by Lisa-Jo | Oct 3, 2016 | Cheering for you, It Gets Better, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom
It’s been a year now since we first started talking about what it would look like if I took one of the kids with me when I travel. I don’t travel a lot. But more than I expected. I get to go and encourage other moms. Yes, I get to. I remind myself, it’s always a gift....
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 6, 2016 | It Gets Better, Ordinary Glory
I’ve learned to like bagels with just cream cheese. Toasted bagels with plain cream cheese. I realize that this morning as I’m making coffee and toasting my bagels. “I’m so American,” I think. My South African dad loved his cream cheese on toast with a big helping of...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 22, 2016 | It Gets Better, Ordinary Glory, The ordinary extraordinary
I haven’t written in a long time because there has been so much to say. Counter-intuitive, I know. But that’s sometimes how summers are. You hope they’ll be long and slow and dreamy and instead they sort of run over you like kids through the...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 12, 2016 | It Gets Better, Love the body you've got, Motherhood
If you’re a mom then at some point you’ve had to deal with a diaper blowout in public. But the story I read by Jordan Watts about what happened to them in a Chick-Fil-A bathroom is like the apocalypse meets a kid’s upset stomach. There really are no...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 12, 2016 | Faith is Hard, It Gets Better
I’m not a good cook. But on sad days what I want to do is take refuge in a kitchen, sitting at a good friend’s kitchen counter. America has had a lot of sad days recently. And there’s comfort in chopping and talking and eating and being together....
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 6, 2016 | Cheering for you, It Gets Better, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom, Rabid fear of parenting
My friend Anna is currently in the most intense season of motherhood. Babies and toddlers. When she writes sometimes I have newborn PTSD remembering. But I also remember how intense the closeness of the Holy Spirit was in those years. How fine the line between heaven...
