by Lisa-Jo | Sep 26, 2013 | Blogging, Just plain hard, Motherhood
Gosh it’s been a couple of weeks. The Five Minute Friday link up is below. But I wanted to share this with you guys first. So read on, yes? I don’t know about you all and what meetings you’ve been in or where you’ve traveled or how many loads of laundry you’ve burned...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 24, 2013 | Motherhood
I have a daughter. It’s changed everything. My gorgeous, rough and tumble boys – I love them as hard as they love all things mud, dirt and mortal combat. But raising a girl – I ache to give her a head start in this Pinterest-perfect, photo shopped...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 15, 2013 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
It occurs to me how much I miss on the days when I’m frustrated. On the days when I hurry them through brushing teeth and climbing bunk bed ladders and demands for just one more sip of water. On evenings when I rush and mutter and long for the solace of bed and...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 9, 2013 | Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
I know in theory we all know there is no perfect mother. In reality, however, we seem to hold ourselves to a standard of motherhood that’s insane. I mean flat out, crazy-making, cuckoo land kind of nuts. And if that weren’t bad enough, we trick ourselves...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 2, 2013 | Just plain hard, Motherhood
My father sat in the pew of a church in Philadelphia with a slip of paper in his hands. The cold encamped outside was a far cry from the mosquito hot shores of South Africa. Three years. He had brought his young family Stateside for three years to add a Masters of...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 28, 2013 | Motherhood, Raising Boys
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain There...
