by Lisa-Jo | Aug 1, 2013 | Family, Motherhood, The ordinary extraordinary
I’m sitting at the kitchen table and there are 14 years worth of scratches and markers and crayons lived into these planks. There’s an empty teacup and the smell of dirty baby diaper in the air. Boys will be back soon from the skate park with their dad and I haven’t...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 28, 2012 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, The ordinary extraordinary
I look around our cluttered playroom and tell myself when it looks like the ones I’ve seen on Pinterest I’ll start a list of fun projects for the kids. I look at my kitchen and tell myself when I can find the Tupperware lids and have invested in some decent pots and...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 27, 2012 | Family, Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys, Sweetstuff, The ordinary extraordinary
“So,” he asks me. “What did you do today?” And I think about lists checked off and conference calls and the crock pot I had to run through the dishwasher and still rinse out by hand. I think about the four rooms that I vacuumed and the EBook...