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A few days in Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Once we bought plane tickets to Guatemala, we began looking for places to visit. (We booked cheap tickets without any other plan or details - 'figure it out later' is my go-to). Breese found information on a market in the…

Tips for staying in a hostel as a family

While traveling we stay in all kinds of different places. Sometimes it is an apartment. Sometimes it’s a hostel. We slept in a cave in Jordan and a hut on the Sinai. Most places I find are on Booking.com, Airbnb,…

Israeli/Palestinian Dual Narrative Tour {Abraham Tours}

I'm sitting in a cute boho style cafe. The wind is blowing off the Sea of Aqaba through the open windows tangling my hair in a million ways. I might have pretty cool dreads at the end of this trip.…

Budget traveling – planning ahead saves $$$

Well, I still need to share some basics about our trip...like WHY we are doing it! Instead of waiting to get all those thoughts together, I figured I'd just start sharing answers to some of the questions I most commonly…

We bought them (1 one-way tickets to North Africa)

After years of traveling in our Avion, we began looking for an Airstream that we could completely remodel to fit our specific family needs. We especially wanted a double axel for safety reasons and scoured online for years to find…

Guacamole – the apprentice

My oldest daughter makes guacamole almost as much as she makes cookies – which is basically every other day. Good thing we have so many in our family and that the next door neighbors wander over to eat it too. Her little sister wanted to…

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questions & conversations {adoption}

I know there are countless adoptive families and those considering adoption that read this blog. I don’t talk about adoption too often anymore – it isn’t that we don’t think about it, but it is that we don’t think about it. Kinda hard to explain.…

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Counters & Cabinets

After posting the tour of our finished kitchen, I received several questions about our cabinets, counters, and the process for it all. Hopefully, this post will answer most of those questions! First, I knew I wanted lots of windows and ZERO upper cabinets. I am…

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my reed & lily pad {The Little Mermaid Jr.}

After months of build up, my girls made their musical theatre debuts over the weekend. With a few friends and their cousins, they joined with other Classical Conversation homeschoolers in our area for a production of The Little Mermaid, Jr. Chris spent his high school…

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Going for it

I looked out the window and saw him talking to himself on the trampoline. I couldn’t figure out what he was doing and then all the sudden he started jumping and just went for it – his first back flip! I gasped in shock. Evidently,…

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