by Lisa-Jo | Oct 30, 2013 | Motherhood, Raising Boys, The hard good stuff
We’re facing each other in the hallway. His fists are clenched and my jaw is clenched and our voices echo off the walls. There are photos of all three kids blown up on the wall and they’re beautiful and utterly inappropriate right now because we’re about to go head to...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 28, 2013 | Motherhood, Raising Boys
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain There...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 6, 2013 | Faith, Motherhood, Raising Boys
So that was a thing, eh? Lots of us with big feelings about how to respond to the media, sports, entertainment and our kids. Thank you for taking me and my hot head and processing together. I’m still processing. Probably will be for a while. Yesterday afternoon...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 29, 2012 | Faith, Motherhood, Raising Boys
Dear Jackson and Micah, Sons, you’re both fast asleep in the bunk bed next door and I’m sitting here wrapped in the blue and gold Michigan blanket that Micah got in Traverse City this year. It’s early and even Wolfie isn’t awake yet. I need to...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 25, 2012 | Motherhood, Raising Boys
It’s Sunday morning and we should be in church. Instead we’re the first ones at the pool and I’m watching Micah swim without flippers for the first time. He’s all awkward energy surfacing each time to yell across at me,”did you see, mom?...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 8, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting, Raising Boys
Fridays are for writing for five minutes. Only five minutes. Stream-of-consciousness style. Like you did when you were in 9th grade. Write and see what comes out. There’s no right or wrong. Got 5 minutes? Come and spend them writing <—click to tweet...
