If you could write your body a letter this summer, what would it say? Something like the following? ********************* Dear Body, Get skinnier, and fast. I’ve gotta put on a bathing suit next week and that means you need to shape up and get it together, like literally on both counts. Lose the rolls and [...]
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Some Stats 12: years married, by Monday of next week. 13: times moved, by the same day. And the process of moving begins, again, for our family today. Finding the lost Connect Four chips under the couch. Dragging out the suitcases from storage and checking for spiders. Sorting clothes and art projects and broken legs [...]
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Ever felt hammered by life? Ever needed the arms of Another to hold you up, to help you ride a wave that you just couldn’t manage on your own? Enjoy this {kinda-funny} image of the daily Battling . . . *Disclaimer: We are not terribly irresponsible parents to let our kid body surf despite the [...]
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Remember this? It’s a video I took briefly back in October when we started raising money for new bathing/toilet facilities for the 42 girls here at Breanna’s House of Joy Children’s Home. . . Because of the generous donations of so many across the United States, construction finished this week on a brand-new, indoor locker [...]
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We started this year with stars in our eyes– big plans to save the world and all that. We were stuffed-full of glossy-idealism and the dramatic-Following. And maybe I’m being too hard on myself, on us, but somehow, I don’t really think so. Because when the heat gets turned up, the true gold shines through– [...]
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So we know that work is a natural part of life, but how and when do we transition from doing everything for our kids to expecting them to do some things for themselves? At what point do we start assigning chores to children and which chores are age-appropriate anyway? What practical systems work to consistently [...]
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The following post is my final writing for the IdeaCamp Conference on Orphan Care which is happening next weekend in Arkansas. If you will be attending, I pray the following encourages your discussions while there. If you’re not planning to go, I hope the following inspires you to embrace whatever shape service and love happen [...]
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If you have struggled or are struggling with depression {or discouragement}, I hope this post will be helpful, though it’s an admittedly longer one than usual. Please understand that I speak not as an expert of any kind, but merely as one who’s tasted the weighty dark depression/discouragement which can bring. And while I talk [...]
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The following is a post I’ve been thinking about for two weeks, but have been living out for a few months now. As we begin a New Year, I’ve read a lot from other blogs about choosing one word as a resolution of sorts for 2011. Alece is talking about it, and so is Nicole. [...]
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Some things are just better said. Like even though you’re supposed to be “Miss Suzy-Homemaker-Homeschooling Mom,” you hate to cook and your kids eat cereal for dinner three times a week {not really an exaggeration}. Or like the confession that you stood yesterday by the refrigerator door and ate a whole chocolate bar you were [...]
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“What happens when trying to follow Jesus turns you into an awful person?” This was the honest question Matt and I talked about last night on our downstairs couch, in the 15 minute-window we had where the kids were asleep and we had the energy to talk about the important. It was a question born [...]
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ALifeOverseas.com / LauraParkerBlog.com.
My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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