Warning:  This is a long one with lots of photos!  🙂 When we came home from Thailand, we were almost five weeks behind in homeschool.  The Denuge Fever had changed our whole trip, and it was looking like Pascaline would be doing homeschool through the whole summer to finish 3rd grade.  But there was another […]

(warning: it’s a long one) We met 18 years ago.  We were both signed up for a church youth conference and ended up sitting next to each other as the van drove us all from Seattle to Anaheim, CA.  “My name is John Louviere.  Think of groovy-hair because my hair is so groovy, except Loooo–viere.”  […]

Brian and I are EXTREMELY excited to host a House Concert featuring beautiful, original soul music from John Louviere!! John is one of our dearest friends.  Brian and I have known John for almost twenty years.  He is currently in the middle of a tour, visiting 20 cities in less than 40 days.  John is […]

Before we left for Thailand, Sony invited me to fly to Florida on March 30th to tape a special interview with Lifetime’s morning show for women, The Balancing Act.  I was excited about the idea, but also nervous about the timing.  We would be coming home from Thailand 48 hours prior.  Could I pull that […]

I had to share part of my devotional today.  It’s a beautiful piece of encouragement from The Artist’s Way.  If you needed to hear this as much as I did, post a comment and let me know you are out there.  Whether your an orphan in Cambodia shooting from a Tuk-Tuk with a dream of […]

He was sitting next to me.  The plane was headed to San Diego.  It was the middle of December, and I felt so exhausted I chose not to introduce myself—just close my eyes and rest.  Little did I know our new friendship would lead to one of our best family travel adventures! But first the […]