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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Okay, so I have a child who has started to interrupt conversations all. the. time. And when she was little, we did the whole, “Put your hand on my arm and wait patiently and quietly until I am finished with my long-adult conversation and then I will pay attention to you” thing. And, yes, that [...]
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I wrote this before I left for our recent visit to the States, about 8 weeks ago. . . I’ve found out a lot about myself this past year and a half. An older missionary who’s logged twenty years overseas once told me that, “Living in Thailand grew her and her children up,” and I [...]
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*Last chance to enter the giveaway for Thai rings, my thanks to you for being involved in this web-space. Just click ‘like’ on the facebook page. More details are here. There are a few voices in the blog world that truly cause me to pause. And soak in beauty, appreciate art a little more, and [...]
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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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We all make millions of choices in life. We choose where we live and what job we take. We choose the spouse we marry, for better or for worse, and we choose what movie we watch on a Friday night, again, for better or for worse. We humans take great pleasure and comfort in being [...]
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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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