I’m honored to introduce you all to my dear friend, Lisa Leshaw, known in the Her View From Home world as the Fairy Blog Mother.
She’s one of a kind.
The stories she shares are brim full of joy, enthusiasm, and encouragement as she takes the everyday nuances of life and stirs them up into exquisite and relatable prose. She has an uncanny way of mixing humor and insight while tugging on your heartstrings at the same time.
To sum up her demeanor in one sentence, I’ll borrow an analogy from Margaret Feinberg: she’s so full of love that it sloshes out and on every person she bumps into.
Truth.
You can read Lisa’s treasure box over at Her View From Home and find her in your local bookstore as she has been published multiple times in Chicken Soup books (including the newly released on August 8th, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Really Did That?), as well as in Guideposts, Huffington Post, Grown & Flown, Parent.co, and others.
For now, enjoy this beautiful post about raising her teenage son which has been around the globe and back by now, and first appeared on Her View From Home:
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Growing Up. You first, then me
by Lisa Leshaw
I am sitting on the front stoop coffee cup in hand, daydreaming about a little cherry-cheeked boy. The one that used to race up the front lawn (world around him be damned) in order to wrap himself in a Mom hug.
He could not get to me, then the center of his universe, fast enough.
Breathless with awe over his bestest kindergarten day ever, he spilled the beans on his older sister misbehaving at recess. Then he handed me a crumpled creased Mother’s Day picture with a giant heart and an “I Love you” with a perfect backward L.
I now watch this same child, I mean man-child (15-year-old to be exact) saunter past me with nary a glance. I detect a grunt, however. I believe it’s in response to my same stupid and annoying question “How was your day?”
Being ignored fuels the feeling challenged response in me.
I try to work the crowd (you my oldest son) much like a comedian fires jokes at a non-responsive audience.
“Did the coach say anything in practice today about the line-up for next week’s game?”
“Nope.”
“I like the new logo on your shirt.”
Barely perceptible nod.
We do our Mother-Son dance, our new daily ritual. I talk. You balk. I show interest. You show disdain. I cry when you’re not looking. I think I am in some kind of mourning as if I have lost you. Yet you stand here before me so that makes little sense.
** Read the rest at Her View From Home
You can connect with Lisa on Facebook and Twitter until she starts her blog (don’t tell her I said that).
Embrace the race, crazy Mommas!
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Shelby Spear
Shelby is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach, Certified Meditation Teacher (CMT), author, freelance writer, speaker, and love enthusiast who is passionate about helping others ‘change the way they look at things so the things they look at change.’ She has numerous stories featured in the national publication, Guideposts. She also has over 160 featured articles at online publications, including Her View From Home, Scary Mommy, Parenting Teens & Tweens, For Every Mom, Love What Matters, and Today. Her book, How Are You Feeling, Momma? (You don’t need to say, “I’m fine.”), co-authored with her dear friend, Lisa Leshaw, recently won the 2020 Publisher’s Weekly Book Life Prize as the finalist in the Inspirational/Spiritual category.
