by Lisa-Jo | Dec 7, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood
I was asked that in an interview. How do you encourage/support/champion kids? And my answer was simple: encourage/support/champion their mothers. Because the every-dayness of every day can get moms down. The routine. The one more load of wash. The endless round trips...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 9, 2010 | Blogging, Family, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes sleep is just more important than writing. Know what I mean?
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 8, 2010 | Family, Kids, Raising Boys
I watch you, Jackson. I watch you watching your dad. I watch you growing up and into him, crawling underneath his skin. I see how you yearn to know more and more of him and how you would sleep legs slung over him every night if he’d let you. Watching you I learn...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 7, 2010 | Faith, Family, Kids
“Why can’t I see God?” This is the question that consumed my two-and-a-half year old for a big chunk of the summer. It was our kids’ first time attending our church’s vacation Bible school (VBS) and it made a profound impression on both...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 1, 2010 | Kids, Raising Boys
“Mama has a baby in her tummy, I have a baby doggie in my tummy and Jackson has a baby super hero in his tummy.” “My tummy hurts – the baby doggy in my tummy is really kicking me.” On explaining to Jackson that “ma’am”...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 29, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood
Math and I have never been close. English literature and I? Bosom buddies. But Math – not so much. In my third year of law school I took a class called “Trusts & Estates.” Yes, it was just as thrilling as it sounds. We had to work out what...
