Thoughts of things our kids miss out on by living here hit me hard sometimes. I don't mind myself missing out on things because--hello, I made the choice to move here. But our kids didn't. I know there are so many things they gain by living here, but there are also some real things they don't have.
Read More"I rush home from work, grab all my notebooks, and rush to night school. It's so hard to focus on what the teacher is saying because all I can think about is what I'm going to make for dinner, whether we ran out of onions or if we still have a few, what I'm going to feed my kids for breakfast…
Read MoreOne of the beauties of where we live is the fun playground right outside our front door. The boys were outside playing today, and when Ruthie woke up from her nap we headed out to join them…
Read MoreThe other day I had past-its-prime yogurt and past-its-prime fruit in the fridge along with empty popsicle molds in the cabinet, so obviously it was popsicle time. The blender we inherited when we moved into this house had not been working…
Read MoreDuring the months preceding our move to Ethiopia, I must have said these words dozens of times: “We’ll spend the first several months in the capital city studying language, and then we’ll move down to Soddo where the hospital is.”…
Read MoreWe are in our second week of language school, and if you could see what we’ve been doing, you might think we were children…
Read MoreEleven days—that’s the length of time from now to the day our house will be sold and empty (hopefully 😬). By then, our suitcases for a month in Belgium should be packed. Our bags and bins to take to Ethiopia in August should be packed. Our boxes of sentimental items to store should be packed. Every closet, every drawer, every cabinet should be empty…
Read MoreDuring this season of life, people ask us a lot of questions about the ins and outs of our plan to move to Ethiopia. One particular question that is posed to me often is: “How does your mom feel about all this?!”
Read MorePip went to school yesterday with one shoe on. He had told me he couldn’t find his other shoe as he was walking out the door, and I said I would grab it as I went back inside to get several other things…
Read MoreMy birthday is on Valentine’s Day, and my last name is Love. To further the cheesy theme, I have red hair and my husband gets called Dr. Love all day…
Read MoreI’m at the airport headed to Dallas for the Proclaim Truth conference (which I’m super excited about!). One of the speakers is author Jen Wilkin, and this trip has me thinking back over things I’ve learned from her teaching.
Read MoreMoving to Ethiopia has been on our radar for over a decade, so as our family has grown and our possessions have grown, it’s always been in our minds that we would say goodbye to a lot of the things we own one day. That mindset affects a lot of things…
Read More“We don’t ever do crafts at home because our mommy hates them.” -Pip to a friend the other day 😬
…So it’s unlike me to write anything about how-to or DIY this or that. But sometimes I get inspired to take a big idea and make it do-able and simple, and that’s where this comes in.
Read MoreSometimes we’re in places of heightened awareness of what we have to be thankful for, and sometimes our vision about our life feels blurry and confused. But even if things seem blurry…
Read MoreThis post is the first in a series called #31daysofcalling--check out the whole series to get a peek (well, it’s really a lot more than a peek) into why our family is headed to Ethiopia…
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