http://www.lauraleighparker.com Life Overseas {a missionary blogs of life in Asia} Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:05:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/88ea54a0b2c7b923e211db41c950105b.png?s=48 http://www.lauraleighparker.com http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/bible-verse-rap/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/bible-verse-rap/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:08:15 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5556 And, now, for some happy . . . I looked at my school schedule last week and noticed we were already on week 12.  Combine that fact with the reality that we were all beginning to hate phonics workbooks and math facts, and our homeschooling took a “fall break” of sorts this week.  We read [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/bible-verse-rap/feed/ 11 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/the-prayer-free-for-all/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/the-prayer-free-for-all/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:45:39 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5430 My authentic-to-the-core husband hates praying aloud in groups so much that he typically won’t do it. Oh, he’ll sit there quietly and have epic conversations with God in his head, but you’ll seldom find him piping up and popcorn-praying-it.  He thinks his talks with God are personal, and he’d just prefer to keep them that [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/the-prayer-free-for-all/feed/ 22 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/yup-that-really-happened/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/yup-that-really-happened/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:19:05 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5337 We were driving in Friday afternoon traffic when Matt saw them, one lane over.  And we’ve seen families of, like, 17, crammed onto a single scooter, we’ve driven past a mother feeding her newborn a bottle on the back of one, and heck, our entire family has taken a joy-ride around the neighborhood on it’s [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/yup-that-really-happened/feed/ 8 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/funny-kid-plays-ukelele/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/funny-kid-plays-ukelele/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:38:54 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5164 Here’s to hoping you each have something to laugh about this weekend . . .]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/funny-kid-plays-ukelele/feed/ 14 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/kid-stop-interrupting/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/kid-stop-interrupting/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:40:07 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5154 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 [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/08/kid-stop-interrupting/feed/ 23 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/dear-body-incourage/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/dear-body-incourage/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:01:35 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4814 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 [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/dear-body-incourage/feed/ 4 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/fourth-july/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/fourth-july/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:11:46 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5012 For my American friends who read here and will celebrate a national holiday tomorrow . . . May your Fourth of July be spent in crazy-fun celebration this year. May you eat corn on the cob and apple pie till you feel sick and May you watch and wonder at fireworks somewhere– even if only on [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/07/fourth-july/feed/ 6 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/why-do-we-do-that-like-really/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/why-do-we-do-that-like-really/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:59:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4907 Okay, so here are the question{s} for the week– Why do we struggle when other people succeed? Why do we criticize, judge, roll our eyes, inwardly become a little green when someone else has better behaved kids, a bigger blog following, a nicer house, the promotion at work, the opportunity, the attention, the better body, [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/why-do-we-do-that-like-really/feed/ 11 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/random-observations-america/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/random-observations-america/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:19:43 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4865 I’ve been back in the States now for two weeks, after more than a year living outside its borders. Call it reverse-culture-shock, but here’s what I’ve observed about my homeland that I didn’t quite notice before: 1.  Subway has too many choices.  It’s confusing.  And it’s hard to read the menu. 2.  America is really clean. [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/06/random-observations-america/feed/ 39 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/wrinkles/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/wrinkles/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 13:19:05 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4732 Yeah, so I guess it is an inevitable reckoning. I may think of myself as the young one, the twenty-something, the slightyly-edgy-mom who had babies and wore a wedding ring barely out of college. And think that as I may, still, the reality is, that I am getting older. Evidence, you say? You got it. [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/wrinkles/feed/ 36 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/jesus-hitman/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/jesus-hitman/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:53:50 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4614 Ava:  Mom, put this {play dough creation} on your heart. Mom:  Honey, I don’t really want to do that. Ava:  Moomm, put it there, please. Mom:  Sweetie, no. I don’t want to do that right now. Ava:  {Eyes squint, voice-growly} Mom, if you don’t do this, Jesus is gonna punch you right in the face. [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/jesus-hitman/feed/ 28 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/bad-funnier/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/bad-funnier/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:54:42 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4538 I wrote in my last post that the video of Ava eating worms was my favorite video from our time in Thailand.  I was wrong.  This one is, quite possibly, much funnier, and I figured it would be a happy way to end my series on this past year. Thanks, again, for journeying with me [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/bad-funnier/feed/ 9