by Lisa-Jo | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Life has been a little bit like this lately. And it will be a little while longer. Good things. Busy things. Work things. Family things. So I’m taking a deep breath over here and some quiet time. Because even moms need a time out sometimes....
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
“I’m afraid the land of perfect is a myth. We might feel we are skirting the borders with our dream, but the reality is those borders don’t exist because perfect doesn’t.” ~Quitter, Jon Acuff. There is no such thing as perfect. Perfect doesn’t exist. Perfect is not an...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 15, 2011 | Daughters, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel, Uncategorized
{Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Five Minute Friday. It’s just that my days in the Southern hemisphere are few and my memories and words in this place are many. So I need more than five minutes this week. But the link up for your beautiful five minute moments...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 9, 2011 | Motherhood, Travel, Uncategorized
Since travel season – both near {we leave tonight to celebrate Pete’s grandma who turns 100. That’s 1-00, yo!} and far {more about that next week} – is upon us, I’ve started having travel-with-kids flashbacks. The kind you need therapy to...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 27, 2011 | Blogging, Uncategorized
My day job? Besides changing diapers, shuttling kids around, and trying to keep up with my laundry – it’s this. This amazing, humbling opportunity to encourage women in their every day, every where lives. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. And if you...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 18, 2011 | Callings, Faith, Kids, Motherhood, Uncategorized
To walk into the high top, past the three rings and the fire breather, between the clowns and the jugglers to face lions is no easy task. But we are called to it. Mothers. We are called to tame lions. And while I don’t know much, I am learning that it is...