by Lisa-Jo | Aug 9, 2012 | Five Minute Friday, Girlfriends, Motherhood
It’s a #FiveMinuteFriday! Where a beautiful crowd spends five minutes all writing on the same topic and then sharing ’em over here. Want to know how Five Minute Friday got started and how to participate? All the details are here. And every week I’ll...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 8, 2012 | Cheering for you, Faith, Girlfriends, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
I slipped out of my mommy skin tonight. For three stolen hours I remembered who I am apart from the small hands that pull on me and the high pitched voices that only know me as mommy and not as Lisa-Jo. I sat in a dark theater and exhaled the Destin and diaper changes...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 1, 2012 | Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
I’ll admit it. I cry in commercials. I also cry in movie trailers. I can go from rational to weepy in like 0.3 seconds. It comes with the hormones I think. And this Olympics – this time around as a mother to three with both sons full on living, breathing, swimming...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 23, 2012 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
I promise you, you will get lots of things wrong this week. You will lose your temper. You will say words you wish you could swallow. You will be frustrated and frazzled and tired and unable to face the dishes in the sink. You will feel scared and uncertain and unable...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 12, 2012 | Cheering for you, Girlfriends, Kids, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
In the last week alone I have ordered food from the McDonald’s drive through window, paid for the food, and then driven off without it. I have taken the highway I can drive in my sleep in the wrong direction and had to go all the way to the airport to turn...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 11, 2012 | Family, Motherhood, Travel
Our family is off to the lake and the woods on vacation this week. Where there’s no Internet. So I’m sharing five of my favorite posts from the last couple years while I’m gone. I hope they’ll be favorites for you too. Wishing you watermelon...
