by Lisa-Jo | Jun 14, 2010 | Family, Kids, Marriage, Motherhood
The ceiling fan spins above us. Lazy but effective. It’s hot, humid, summer. And we are adrift in a big bed – the one with no frame or headboard. The one we’ve had thirteen years now. White sheets billow soft around us. Me and him. We share the sacred moment of the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Kids, Travel
the country and not the city. a house and not an apartment. a well weathered farm house and not a new build. upstairs not downstairs. on hard wood floors, not carpet or tiles. next to a corn field, not a lake. inland and not by the ocean (I think). OK, your...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 10, 2010 | A year of "no", Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Marriage, South Africa, Travel
I’ve been on a strange journey the last five years. And I felt lost for large chunks of it. Since our first son was born in South Africa five years ago this August, Pete and I have lived in five different houses on two continents. We have hurt, we have rebuilt,...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jun 9, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood
Some days your kid spits at the preschool director. Some days your kid who is supposed to be showing off how very ready he is for preschool flings pencils instead and declares, “You bad lady!” to the woman you had hoped he’d impress. Some days you...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 7, 2010 | Faith, Family, Inbetween, Kids, Travel
I feel it in my hand. Gossamer fine, delicate thread. I hold it loosely to be sure I don’t snap it. I’m following it. Spiderweb-delicate strand, it leads me; it pulls me forward. Hand-over-hand I follow. Sometimes, in deep dark black nights I can’t...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jun 3, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
Interesting, isn’t it, how many of us are afraid of our bathing suits? And then there are our jeans, our noses, our dress sizes, our cooking skills, our choices about what diapers to put on our kids, whether we will make our own baby food, our kids’ behavior, our...
