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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Enjoy this 10-Step Instructional Guide to Messing Up St. Patrick’s Day for Your Kids: 1. Don’t plan anything the night before. In fact, better-yet, forget about the holiday completely until the morning-of. 2. Announce enthusiastically that the family will have something green for breakfast. 3. Be too lazy to make pancakes. Opt for toast and [...]
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Sometimes the hardest space in a parent’s day to fill {with young children, especially} is that time between “Dinner is finished” and “Let’s start getting everyone ready for bed.” That can be a tough hour for multiple reasons. Here’s a little family-fun activity we did last night during those post-dinner loooonnngggg minutes before bedtime-routines began [...]
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We’ve just experienced one of the best gifts of friendship ever given to our family– two of Matt’s closest friends flew around the globe for a visit. I’m working on a post about it, promise, but until then, here are some snapshots of life around these parts lately– Asia’s Starbucks {though we do, actually, also [...]
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Can’t read Thai, like me? No problem. At this coffee shop near our house, you can always just order the Rib. Eyes. Seen anything funny this weekend?
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Upcoming posts will have some thoughts and ideas on the importance of developing good work habits– in our kids and in ourselves. There’ll be thoughts on the underlying value of work today and then practical ideas for chores, in the near-future. There is value in work. In laundry and dishes and diapers. In typing emails [...]
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Ever been at an Asian restaurant and your kids wanted to use the provided chopsticks, but didn’t know how? We were at a noodle-place down the road from our house when our kids were getting frustrated by the same dilemma. My husband, Matt, played hero and went all-McGyver on us, and the kids became instant-chopstick-using-pros. [...]
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We had an incident this week. It included my husband riding his motorbike, dressed all-snazzy-professional for a meeting, and being nearly-attacked by two psycho street dogs. The details are perhaps not as important as the results, which were: road-rashed knees, jarred and, thus, very stiff, back, scraped scooter, and holes in his best suit pants. [...]
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. . . to ten in Thai, and he is really stinkin’ cute when he does it. Here’s a sampling, just because, you know, kids are funny little people. Enjoy.
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I was reading over at Lysa TerKeurst’s today and saw the following video, which made me smile. And chuckle. A lot. It’s a compilation of an audience’s reaction to one of Oprah’s Favorite Things Shows. And I know that Christmas can be stressful and exhausting and maybe even lonely, but surely there was something we experienced that should [...]
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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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