by Lisa-Jo | Jun 30, 2011 | Family, South Africa, Travel
How do you fit three years into three weeks? How do you pour a grain silo worth of time into a teaspoon? Slowly, perhaps. With lots of prayer to the God who multiplies loaves and fishes. You pray He will multiply the 21 days and nights into a season of memories so...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 29, 2011 | Family, South Africa, Travel
{Thanks to my brother, Joshua, for capturing this amazing afternoon and South African Airways for helping make it all possible} Want to keep up with this homecoming trip to South Africa? Sign up to get my posts emailed to your doorstep right here Or delivered to your...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 27, 2011 | South Africa, Travel
What? You’re going to South Africa? Yes, Ma’am- we fly out tonight (Monday, June 27th) at 5.20pm. Why on earth? Well, I’m South African. And while my husband is a home grown Michigander, for me home means South Africa. Specifically, Pretoria, South...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jun 17, 2011 | Five Minute Friday, South Africa, Travel
{Turns out it only takes one minute to read my five minutes out loud. Some of you asked, so here it is: click to listen to my five minutes on Home} This is the time of the week when we steal those five minutes while the kids are fingerpainting the dining room table,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 16, 2011 | Faith, South Africa, Travel
I pray at the kitchen sink more than anywhere else. I think it’s something to do with the soothing warm water and the fact that washing dishes is a focused task. Compared to, say, cleaning up the living room, which has me rabbit trailing between toys and books and the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 14, 2011 | South Africa, Travel
It’s been thirty pounds, give or take, since we were last home in South Africa. Thirty pounds, three and a half years, two mega care packages that took two months to arrive, countless Skype minutes, one World Cup, and a brand new baby girl. Two weeks from today...
