This summer we packed up our kids and took them on a two-week adventure in Africa. One week in Uganda to help build a school, and one week in Kenya to experience God’s grandeur on a safari. In order to get there, we traveled to four different continents in 48 hours. For real. We slept…
Preparing for your son’s wedding is an interesting journey as a mother—the details, the emotions, and all the little things in between. And underneath it all is something deeper: the realization that you really have to let that boy of yours go. This was our experience in the days leading up to Max’s wedding. Oh…
We had a big event heralding in June (Dave’s Ironman), and another big one to top it off (the BBS conference), but there were sure a lot of “little things” sandwiched in between. So let’s cover those suckers, but not without a little snippet of the Ironman: The month started out pretty heavenly for me……
Utah is a pretty gorgeous place in the summer, I tell you that. Right now, as we melt in the heat of the desert, I’m sure missing all that beauty up there. And most of all I’m missing having my girls with me 24-7. I love them. And oh man did I ever love…
Slowly but surely I’m catching up on our history here. Very motivated by this book my sister-in-law whipped up for me (here…and I really shouldn’t say “whipped” because I’m sure it wasn’t all that quick of a job…). I already wrote a bunch about November here and there, but here are the “little things” I…
Real quick… It’s almost midnight but I have to document the 26th of August in the few minutes before it’s over. Because exactly this day last year we were here: Heading off on a grand adventure to live in China for a semester. (Those teenagers don’t look overly happy about the prospect…) We arrived with…
We are thinking about moving and we have a child in Jr. High and a daughter that will be in 10th grade next year plus a first-grader. I was wondering what you thought about dual immersion programs in elementary school? For example first graders also learning Chinese? I LOVE dual immersion programs. I’d give…
On one of our first Sundays here in China Dave and I introduced the kids to the “theme” we wanted to have for our family while we’re here. And we just barely got it up on the wall. We’ll always have our family motto of course, which we refer to often (more on that HERE),…
This Q & A starts with a preface: It seems like there’s always a hot debate over how much pushing and high expectations are ok when it comes to raising kids (as evidenced by the comments in the Tiger Mother post a couple days ago…so much great insight I wanted to say “amen” to). The…