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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My husband is an inspirational leader– an Inspirational Leader. And when he worked as a student pastor, he challenged kids with Jesus-living time and again. And this week as we were looking through some old kid-videos, we found these clips from a message he gave once at the local high school during a global awareness [...]
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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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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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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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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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Yup, you didn’t misread that title. Along with several of our amazing interns, my husband rode an ostrich yesterday, Swiss-Family-Robinson style. We are in Chiang Rai {about 2 hours north of Chiang Mai} for a retreat this week, and, well, I’ll let you see for yourself . . . Comment.
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I’ve watched my husband work for hours in front of his laptop these last three days. Mostly at night, after the kids are in bed and the general quiet descends. Choosing photos. Smoothing away teenage acne. Adjusting color tones. Capturing in utmost the beauty that already resides. He was able to photograph each of the [...]
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If you are interested, below is the link to the sermon Matt gave this past Sunday. He was able to share the full story of how we decided to move to Thailand and was able to challenge us all to love and follow Jesus sacrificially. My favorite thing he said was, “Jesus did not die on a [...]
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I love that I was Matt Parker’s date to senior prom, and I’m glad that our first (of many) kisses took place on a beach. I love that I knew him when he was bald and bearded, and that he is the only man in the world who would spend two hours to pull my [...]
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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.
