Christ Follower. Wife. Mama. Adventurer.
Well, that escalated quickly. Last week I was hiking in the rainforest of Costa Rica trying to find a red-eye tree frog and this week I’m fighting the masses for a roll of toilet paper. Just because I classify myself in the homeschool mom category doesn’t mean this is my norm. Our norm consists of…
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I’ll be honest, when my parents first told me my dad’s job was relocating him to Singapore, I was less than thrilled. Asia did nothing for me. I was a little bit bummed that the relocation wasn’t somewhere more exotic or sophisticated. Australia? Paris? I can think of 20 places I’d rather visit than Asia.…
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I’ve always loved to travel. There’s something so easily correlated between God and my travels. He’s so easy to find. His presence feels so obvious to me. Think about following your favorite artist around their gallery, around each corner is a new masterpiece to marvel at. When you stand at the bottom of a waterfall…
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Since we’ve returned from Asia, I’ve had several people say something to me along these lines: “That trip looked incredible, it’s too bad your kids weren’t a couple of years older so they could get something out of it.” I’ve thought about these comments for a while. “Did we waste an opportunity? Should we have…
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What’s the biggest mistake you can make when planning your Disney vacation? That’s easy: not taking advantage of Disney’s FastPass system. In fact, if you don’t utilize it correctly I can tell you right now which attractions you will have to miss out on. What is a FastPass you ask? Well, basically you reserve a…
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Honesty is the best policy, right? So let me start out with an honest confession: I’m not a light packer. I don’t think I’ll ever make it into that classification. I do however think I’ve finally moved out of the over-packer column. So hey, that’s progress. Because we travel so often I’ve had a lot…
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They say hindsight is 20/20. How different would my life look if I had a little crystal ball that let me peek into the future? How would my days change? We all get the same amount of hours each day and countless times I’ve laid in bed and wondered if I’ve made my hours count.…
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Every trip we take pushes me to grow in some way. Sometimes it’s a little, and then sometimes it’s a lot. Sometimes it’s in ways I expect, and then other times, I don’t see it coming. Sometimes it’s in the views at the top of the mountains and sometimes it’s when I’m down in the…
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You guys remember that show FearFactor? I’m pretty sure I could have won it. I’ve never had any ‘real fears.’ Get in a bucket with snakes? spiders? If the price was right, sure. Jump off the tallest building? Sure. I’d ride anything, go anywhere, jump off or out of anything, I’d pretty much try anything…
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This isn’t the first time we’ve had a trip hijacked by the weather. If you remember, we spent a week water-logged in the Caribbean this past fall. I’ll be honest, when the weather forecast showed rain for the week of our most recent beach trip, we debated canceling our trip. In the end, we decided…
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