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Thoughts on Motherhood, Miracles and Why We Should Stop Hacking Our Children’s Childhood

It’s like staring into a fire. Captivating. Mesmerizing. Like a meditation. Looking into the face of a sleeping newborn is bewitching. I could do it for hours and feel completely content. Watching them breat...

Why We Spent Only One Short Week in El Salvador (and the Precariousness of Travel)

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We made it to El Salvador. For months, almost since we'd come to Guatemala, my husband always said, "I want to check out El Salvador. I want to go to El Salvador." El Salvador was always on his mind. We'd...

Why I’m Not Satisfied With My Life (And You Shouldn’t Be Either)

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It's been growing slowly for several months. A slight feeling of frustration, restlessness, annoyance... A dissatisfaction with this or that. Irritation at circumstances and situations. Don't get me ...

Staying Home is Easier Than Daring to Adventure, But…

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It was February 2012 when we pulled into Panajachel, Guatemala and rented our first house, intending to stay for only a few weeks. Those weeks turned into months, which turned into a year, which developed ...

Getting an Ultrasound in Guatemala (and We’re Having a…)

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Greg and I climb into our 'disaster' of a truck... the adventure mobile that has undergone several re-models and 'unmodels', and now has an uncertain future. But that's another story that I may share in a ...

So… I’m Pregnant. Yes, With Number SIX!

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NOT a basketball, this is #5 I really thought this day would never come. I was positive that after number five, Atlas (right), we were DONE having kids. The nausea. The hormones. The discomfort. The s...

THIS is Why We Love Travel!

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Except for a few side trips (to California, Idaho and Yellowstone), we spent about three months in Salt Lake City area, while we prepped our truck for the next leg of our trip. We installed A/C (a ...

7 Ways Family Travel Confirms that ‘All Men Are Created Equal’

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Huh? I know it's the 4th of July, but what could family travel - traveling to places like India or Peru - even have to do with the Declaration of Independence? The famous words penned by Thoma...

Sunday Morning Confession

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I woke up this morning with that feeling you have when you've slept too long - kind of what I imagine you would feel like if you got hit with a baseball bat in the head - my eyes felt puffy and swollen shut...

‘Focus’ is Like Fuel for My Body and Mind

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// Wow! I'm so impressed with myself. I told you that I stayed up the whole night the night before last. Well, I was awake the entire day, and felt great! I focused a lot on my website, and I was reall...