There is a beauty in raising boys that I did not expect to find. It is lodged somewhere between the screaming and the sword fights and the pushing and the spilled juice. I feel like I am always scrambling for a tiny piece of sanity, a rest in the midst of the deluge that is …
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Be Inspired: The Kelleys in Haiti
The Kelleys are inspirational to me. Mostly for the way they pushed straight past “Someday we want to move to Haiti” and right into “We ARE moving to Haiti.” That takes guts, that decision to GO to CHANGE to GROW. It especially takes guts when you have a child and a thriving photography business, like …
Free wallpapers worth having
Hi friends! The blog these come from, Make Under My Life, has so many great ideas for living PURPOSEFULLY… which I love (BE WARNED… YOU CAN GET LOST OVER THERE FOR A MORNING WITHOUT EVEN TRYING). I have needed both the reminders below in the last few weeks, so currently the “breathe” wallpaper is front and center. …
Places We Heart
Today I am taking a healthy dose of my own medicine. The lovely Wayfare Magazine published a post I wrote for their weekly Places We Heart column. I wrote all about the spaces that help our family stay healthy while living outside our home culture. The spaces I mention over at Wayfare? Well, they’re the …
The cope-a-meter.
I’m having an off day. One of those, “Why did we move here again?” moments that seems to be lasting for DAYS. Last week my cope-a-meter blitzed past “coping,” raced on towards “what the heck are we DOING here,” and then landed firmly in “I just really want some decent cheese.” If you need to …
Underneath the coffee trees
I love it under the coffee trees. Don’t you? We’re off to the coffee hills again tomorrow. I’ll be photographing more of the harvest process and Coffee Guy will be talking with farmers and making sure the coffee cherries are being processed correctly . I can’t wait. Being among the coffee trees re-connects me with …