by Lisa-Jo | Nov 27, 2013 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Family
For the days we are running on empty. For the days we just don’t think we have it in us to pick up one more load of groceries, read one more story, play one more game of Monopoly, wash one more round of sheets. For the days when we think everyone else has it...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 24, 2012 | Christmas
All I want is to be in church. Right in the deep of the service in a row not far from the front. In a sea of my favorite Christmas carols, letting the music wash over me and my tired, end-of-year self. I want to sink into that place of remembering what happened that...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 11, 2012 | Christmas, Faith, Family
It’ll be five years on the 27th since Pete drove down the back roads of Owosso, Michigan to a small hospital and the hard delivery of our second-born son, Micah. I could barely look at him once he made it out I was so beat. I remember the email Peter wrote to...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 30, 2012 | Christmas, Five Minute Friday
After years of living all over the world my husband and I have a theory: “people are people are people.” {Especially kids, heh.} And when you all show up here every Friday for what’s nearly two years straight now, with your gut-punchingly awesome...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 27, 2012 | Christmas, Family, South Africa
Christmas in South Africa was always hot. Kids gathered around the tree, sunburns still stinging. “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” pounding hopefully out over the radio. Our tree was always a live one and the years we gathered at Ouma and...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 24, 2011 | Christmas, Faith
Into the dark. Into the night. Into the ache and pain and wave after wave of labor. Into the dirt between handfuls of straw clutched in desperate fists. Into the bite of teeth clenched down and muscles baring down and midwives singing down the fear, the fever in her...
