The girls danced today. Sisters four years apart, they twirled and swayed and choreographed and giggled. Dramatic faces, pointed toes, hands like birds. And from my spot on the couch, it was a moment I wanted to freeze. It was a memory of girls whom I wanted to rescue from the inevitable growing-up, and the [...]
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In light of all of the heavy, tear-jerking, don’t-you-feel-sorry-for-them posts of late, I thought I would give depressing a break for today. Here are some fun {promise-I’ll-try-not-to-make-you-cry} answers to some random questions about a life lived over here in the jungle. Do you have an oven in your kitchen? No. {Since I don’t like to [...]
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She answered my questions with the minimums –one sentence or two at the most. And, try as I might, she kept responding to my best-friendly with no leading comments of her own, and then she delivered the ultimate subtle-shut-down. She asked no questions of me, the New Girl, at all. And so I busied myself [...]
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“What happens when trying to follow Jesus turns you into an awful person?” This was the honest question Matt and I talked about last night on our downstairs couch, in the 15 minute-window we had where the kids were asleep and we had the energy to talk about the important. It was a question born [...]
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Today I expected too much of my children. I swore in my head when my toddler dripped spaghetti, and then I swore out loud when I dropped the keys in the dirt. Today I rolled my eyes when a Thai woman asked to photo our {sweaty, tired} blonde family. And then I smiled-plastic, and I [...]
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So sorry for the last week of quiet! As most of you have suspected, the recent move has given us fresh ways to practice patience with our Internet (again). I won’t have access at home for a while, so things may be a bit quieter around these parts. Until then, I wanted to show some [...]
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The taxi drove away today, and the wails erupted. The car pulled from view, and I was left with three sobbing children on the street corner of my Asian neighborhood. I tell the story {and talk about the struggle of living away from family} here . . . {Sorry the last two sentences of the [...]
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It was Trash Day on Friday. And thank goodness . . . Yup. This was the mound of trash we pulled out of our house this past week as we are preparing to move overseas (in just 8 days now). Puzzles that were missing pieces, sweaters with holes, half-filled bottles of lotion we forgot we [...]
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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.
