It’s Thursday morning, and I wake up with my mind racing. The balls are spinning in the air, and it seems the faster I juggle, the more likely I am to drop one, or two, or seven for that matter. I have about twelve too many projects going on at once, no consistent childcare help, [...]
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Admittedly, I am a crappy pray-er. I have the attention span of a cocker-spaniel whose owners are having a dinnerparty, and the result of my distraction is that my prayer life is sporadic, hurried, and fuzzy, at best. Last week, though, I learned about a new tool to use in prayer that has really helped [...]
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I homeschool my kids. I see them from 6:30 in the morning until about 8:30 in the evening, with the exception of an hour-and-a-half lesson in taekwondo a few times a week or the occasional playdate. We don’t have family close by to watch the kids for the weekend, and we live in Asia where [...]
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So, yeah, our family has food issues. I have one kid that has claimed vegetarianism for the past 6 months, one kid that I think has a gluten-allergy and also hates rice {yeah, in Asia, he hates rice}, and another child that literally wants ketchup on everything from noodles to watermelon {yeah, I am not [...]
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I complain. I whine. I grumble about what could be better, what hasn’t worked out. I pout, I wallow. I hold onto grudges and pick specks out of other eyes. I look at this and want that, doubt the present and think-cynical about the future. I resent the work motherhood and marriage and ministry requires– [...]
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So I remembered a story this week– a story that took place about a billion minutes prior to this one. It happened in a dirt-floored home where wine was poured from pottery, where feet were washed and figs were dessert. It was a home that rivaled the southern-hospitality I know, though the guests probably sat [...]
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Having a hard time pushing the vegetables onto the daily menu at your house? Struggling with kids who won’t eat their greens, even if it means “no dessert for a month, mister!?” Sometimes dinnertime can become a warzone, and then no one’s happy eating anything, anyway, and the meal you worked so hard to make [...]
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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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Sweaty heads and dirty feet tumbled into the car after an evening last week at BHJ Girl’s Home in Thailand. And we waved goodbye out the window as the gate was closed behind us, and I asked my three kids in the backseat, “Well, did you have fun?” And, immediately, my son started in– “I didn’t [...]
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Water is important– for grown-ups, for kids, for that goldfish your son talked you into buying. It helps fight fatigue and cancer, helps regulate the body’s digestive system, clears your skin, wards off sickness, and helps your brain fire on all {well, at least, more} cylinders. But, like most things, we seldom want what’s really [...]
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My daughter, Ava, turned four years- old this Saturday. She’s the baby of the family, and I would be lying to say that there’s something about the last one that begs me to slow down more, that awakens this insatiable desire to video long snatches of nothing-much, for fear I’ll forget her, forget them. And [...]
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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.