by Lisa-Jo | Mar 5, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
(As transcribed from the text messages I received last week while traveling for work.) And then the babysitter said, “I KNEW they were being too quiet while I was putting away dishes. Jack let Micah into the bathroom and they’d turned the tub into a...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 2, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
In the car on a crowded highway in the dark a small voice sings off key. It’s the song I have sung to him almost every day of his four and a half years. The song I have sung till I am tired of the melody and the words have lost all meaning. The song that evokes 3am...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 12, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes parenting is a sonnet. Filled with moonlit, rocking chair, baby skin-to-skin moments. But sometimes, it is just not. Sometimes there are no words to beautify the exhausting moments of parenting. There is only a new kind of carpet cleaner cracked open for the...
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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 8, 2010 | Kids
This boy. He’s still mine. His big brother is slowly peeling away from my side and grafting in with his father – measuring hands, muscles, and strength against the man he wants to become. But his brother, this one, is still all baby fat and believing that...
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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 7, 2010 | Kids
We’ve been house bound since Thursday night. We’ve mashed, smashed and eaten play-doh. We’ve finger painted the glass door. We’ve played drums and guitar and shaken our respective booties to the beat of the Wiggles. We’ve made brownies,...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jan 22, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
This boy. We should have named this boy Houdini. All last week he escaped his crib in the pitch black dark of his bedroom, over the side rail and via the changing table, dropping fearless down to the floor. At 2am he greets me nose-to-nose, eyeball-to-eyeball over the...
