by Lisa-Jo | Jun 2, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood
My boys officially smell of summer. And to me summer smells like sunscreen. The ritual has begun – the spraying and lathering and rubbing into scalps of sweet smelling SPF 50 on blond hair and pale white bodies. {Sorry, boys, you may have got my blue eyes, but...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 31, 2010 | Family, Kids, MOB, Motherhood, Raising Boys
Your kids need a bath and it’s not even 9 am yet. One minute they’re kissing up to you and the next minute they’re terrorizing you. You turn your back on your make up bag for a second and discover this. Underpants are regularly re-purposed as super...
by Lisa-Jo | May 27, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Motherhood
It’s sticky hot. Pants-stuck-to-the-backs-of-your-legs hot. But once a week during the lunch hour me and my crew load up into the car without air conditioning and drive windows down, crazy hair blowing, to share life with a group of friends. We come kids, diaper bags...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 24, 2010 | A thousand gifts, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
It’s hard to start a new week with a load of worry. I’ve been carrying quite a lot of it lately. It’s heavy and uncomfortable. It’s giving me bad posture – it has me looking down instead of up. I shrug my shoulders, try to bear up under it, shift the weight around...
by Lisa-Jo | May 19, 2010 | Kids, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel
I’m raising two boys two and a half years and nearly 8,000 miles away from the country that runs in their veins. The blood red dust of the Karoo, the ostrich, the meerkat, the hadida. Thick accents and thicker maize meal cooked in three legged black pots over...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 18, 2010 | Family, Kids, Motherhood, Raising Boys, Travel
We have these dreamy towels from Bed, Bath and Beyond. They’re the nicest ones we’ve ever owned. Big, fluffy bath sheets. I believe their official color is “linen.” We used them for exactly one year before they went into storage for the next nearly five. One year in...
