by Lisa-Jo | Apr 7, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
You think a day is going to go one way and then your two-year-old projectile vomits all down your front and into your lap. Those moments are out-of-body experiences. Because, as much as your mind might be freaking out about the partially digested hamburger that is...
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by Lisa-Jo | Apr 6, 2010 | Kids
Fourteen years ago I stood in the same place I stood tonight. I was 21 and about to fall for the Midwestern boy with the green eyes who was trying to steal third base. Spring on the Washington DC mall – it was a cherry blossom love story. I couldn’t have...
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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 31, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
I am not good at crafts. I am not the mom who will beautifully dye and decorate eggs or create an Easter tree. I admire Spring wreaths from afar and instead let my boys wallow in the Spring mud up close. I feel hopelessly inadequate in the face of all the remarkable...
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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 21, 2010 | Faith, Kids
There’s a small, dirty sock in the hallway. It anchors me. No matter what storms of worry might rage. No matter how small the boat might seem. That smaller-yet-still sock anchors me. It anchors me to this And this in turn leads me hand-over-hand, down the...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 18, 2010 | Kids
I wonder why I never went back to my childhood church after I returned to South Africa I wonder why I never told the first boy that said he loved me that I loved him back. I wonder why I never remember to close the microwave door after using it. I wonder why I never...
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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 16, 2010 | Family, Kids, Raising Boys
Pete and I are 35 and still have never owned a house. We rent a quirky little home with a backyard that is at times better suited to bundu-bashing than games of baseball or catch. The carpets are stained with melted play-doh and mud has been tracked in irreversible...
