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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 22, 2016 | Cheering for you, Faith is Hard, Family, Holidays
I’ve been the community manager at the website (in)courage for six years now. That means six years of working with and for and alongside women. Writing about women, reading about women, talking to women, being in small groups of women and large groups of women. I...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 9, 2015 | Cheering for you, Faith, Family, Holidays, Just plain hard
I’ve been the community manager at the website (in)courage for five years. That means five years of working with and for and alongside women. Writing about women, reading about women, talking to women, being in small groups of women and large groups of women. I don’t...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 4, 2015 | Christmas, Holidays, Kids, Rabid fear of parenting
I hate commercials. I don’t think I can possibly overstate this. I make our children DVR any TV shows they want to watch so that they can fast forward through the commercials. They know that the best way to make my head explode is to leave the volume on during a...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 25, 2015 | Cheering for you, Christmas, Holidays, No more mom guilt, No such thing as just a mom
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 | Nov 12, 2015 | Holidays, Kids
As much as I love November and the holiday season, I dread the monsoon of marketing directed at our kids that comes with it. Nothing makes my head want to explode more than listening to a child who just got a new paint set, or backpack or soccer cleats start to whine...
