In honor of all the hearts floating around these days, I am re-posting a piece I wrote about eight months ago. We were just returning to Asia after a glorious six weeks in the U.S. with family and friends, good bread and better coffee, and I was wrestling with what love looks like, in a [...]
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We got married a dozen years ago when we had just barely turned legal to drink a glass of wine, and everyone said we were too young. But we would just roll our eyes at each other behind their backs. We picked out invitations and cake-flavors in the same month we studied to pass college [...]
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So, meet Teri Miller. She is a homeschooling mom with seven kids {yeah, not a typo.} She’s writes beautifully-authentic on her blog, Stumbling Around in the Light, and she has this singing voice that’s hard not to be jealous of. I should know. She sings sometimes at our home church in Colorado. I asked Teri [...]
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My husband’s not a schmoozer. He’s not one to say something for the purpose of inflating an ego, and he’s not one to walk-in-a-straight-line-and-follow-the-rules, either. He’s more of the envelope-pusher, hard question-asker, brutally-honest type-of-guy. He’s the person you want for a friend {if you want someone with the guts to call you on your crap}, [...]
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This year has marked each of us, uniquely. And I wonder, today, what my kids will say about their Thailand experience, thus far. I wonder if they’ll be excited to use “elephant riding” as a truth when they play “Two Truths and a Lie” at summer camp some day. I wonder if they’ll have hearts [...]
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I fear I’ve gotten it all wrong. I sit here, and I look back at the last 24 hours, the last week, maybe even the last 33 years, and I wonder if somewhere embedded in the depths of me is a clawing desire for success. To mother kids that “turn out.” To get {and keep} [...]
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From highschool student to young single, from tired parent to even-more tired empty-nester, our days can often be defined as a fight for the things that matter. This article is about that struggle, and following the post, I’ve added some questions my husband asked me after I told him what I wrote about this afternoon [...]
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And it’s not our anniversary or anything, but I’m just wanting to say that . . . I love my husband. Now, more than ever. Really. Now, more than ever. 15 years ago, he brought me flowers to senior prom. It was a time when we were youthfully-skinny and happily-carefree. And now he brings me [...]
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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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I’ve watched two men struggle to keep afloat. My little man, Cade, is barely a whole handful of years. Last week, we logged countless pool hours during our vacation to Pattaya in Southern Thailand. And Cade was determined to swim. In the deep end. He desperately wanted the freedom to be a contender in the [...]
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Eleven years ago today, I wore white and held flowers and cried as I promised these words, I, Laura, take you, Matt, to be my treasured husband. By the grace of God, I promise to respect your spiritual leadership in our home. I desire to encourage you in your dreams and to support you in whatever [...]
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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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Destined Traveler.
Mentoring Young Adults, Hosting Teams, Educating about Human Trafficking.