by Lisa-Jo | Apr 20, 2011 | Blogging, Callings, Faith, Motherhood
Every time my fingers get itchy for a keyboard lately, it’s all mama hormones that seem to come pouring out. For obvious reasons. There is, after all, a one-month-old who’s moved in, twinkled and be-dazzled our testosterone heavy household. But there are...
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...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 12, 2011 | Blogging, Family, Giveaways, Kids, Motherhood
Today was a real “don’t make me come up there” kind of day. For starters, I forgot that the air conditioner repair guys were scheduled to arrive at 8am. And 8am comes real early when one has only slept in 3 hour shifts, the last one ending at 7am. So...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 6, 2011 | Blogging, Kids, Motherhood, Sweetstuff
Some days you just put one foot in front of the other. You don’t run, you simply walk, and it’s brave even when it might not look that way from the outside. Some days you take a newborn to your dentist appointment and when she starts to cry you just smile and tell...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 31, 2011 | Daughters, Kids, Motherhood, Uncategorized
Let me count the ways: “For YOU created Zoe in my inmost being; you knit her together in my womb. I praise you because she is fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful I know that full well.” Psalm 139: 13-14
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 21, 2011 | Daughters, Kids, Motherhood
I didn’t know when I started this post that by the time I finished it we’d be five. That Spring and life would come three days early for us. That we only had one more day without her. I didn’t know how far and deep and wide I could still fall in...