He said that the greatest love is to lay down your life for a friend. And I agree. Because, hey, it was Jesus who said it. But, I think Jesus also might have said that a fairly strong showing of love is in just showing up– especially when the showing up involves the taking of [...]
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Last Saturday, our family went to the annual Chiang Mai Flower Festival in downtown Chiang Mai. The floats were gorgeous, the crowd was large, and yes, we caved and bought the kids all obnoxiously-large helium balloons. Enjoy the photos, and here’s to hoping your weekend has a little beauty, or people-around, or even a reason [...]
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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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Do you remember when I wrote about a promise given under aspen trees last year? It was a promise for Joy to Come, even on foreign soil, 8,500 miles from the Colorado sky I so loved. And if you’ve followed here for any amount of time, you’ll know it’s been a long ten months. If [...]
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The hubs is a cool dude on so many levels. One of his secret-ninja skillz is in taking uh-mazing pictures. Here are a few of my personal favorites from this last year. And if a pictures is worth a thousand words, well, maybe Matt should become the blogger in the family, after all. As you [...]
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The following post is part of the photography focus of the blog entitled Latitude 18. Matt took these several weeks ago during a final debrief week at Koh Phi Phi beach in Southern Thailand with our team of students. It seemed the perfect setting to finish up three months of ministry and begin to talk about [...]
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As usual, all photo credit goes to the hubby {and his really nice camera and his MacBook}. He can cook, he’s still hot after 11 years, and he can take sweet pictures. Man, I’m glad I married that guy. Photos are of: Village on the River outside of Chiang Rai, Village Scenes, HillTribe Girl in [...]
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Happy Weekend, Friends. Here’s a super-short clip of the scenery we drive past daily near our house in Doi Saket. It’s a far cry from Pikes Peak in Colorado, but gorgeous, nonetheless. {And don’t worry, Mom, I do wear a helmet when driving the scooter. Promise.} Are you thankful to be seeing anything new this [...]
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Living in a foreign country serves you with constant reminders that you do not belong. Just this week, we spent four hours in the waiting room of the Thai immigration office. Four hours. Waiting. Vulnerable. Nervously offering paperwork to officials in hopes that our passports would be stamped worthy of remaining in their country for a year. [...]
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In honor of Kelty’s seventh birthday, my mom and I took her out for a fun salad dinner, a little shopping, and our first exposure to the ever-popular fish-spa therapy here in Chiang Mai. Essentially, you pay money to stick your perfectly-healthy feet into a tank to let hundreds of fish nibble at your toes. [...]
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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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