Why we would be the worst and best couple on the Amazing Race: A peek into our lives

I grew up watching the Amazing Race and always thought how fun and exciting and AMAZING it would be to travel around the world with someone, experiencing crazy and beautiful memories. Then I married Grayson and moved halfway around the world to South Asia and discovered we would be TERRIBLE...

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Norah's Birth Story

For anyone interested in Norah’s birth story, here ya go! Hopefully some of you may find encouragement or relate to some of the details of her birth story. And some of you may just be excited to finally hear how it all went down! The majority of my pregnancy had been quite normal, not many complaints....

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Giving Photos

Sometimes in this age of digital photos and constantly sharing photos with one another via things like Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp, we forget how beautifully simple a printed photo can be. Pictures are no longer worth a thousand words, just the number of MB's it will take to upload it to Facebook....

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Who are you listening to?

A few weeks back, the lady we pay to come daily to wash our dishes and clean our floors didn’t come for two days. And when she finally did come, she came early. On the ONE day I am ever out of my house before noon. And you know what, she didn’t wait, she turned right around and left. Many thoughts went...

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If I had put a pumpkin on our front porch..

What is it that you like about your American culture? Is it the freedom you have in almost all aspects of life (including going anywhere you want, saying whatever you want, wearing whatever you want, etc.)? Is it the American celebration of specific holidays? Or the style of clothes that...

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Some Nuts and Bolts (and a hand saw)

We have been living in our new city for four weeks! The last few weeks have been frustrating and exciting, sometimes feeling both emotions on the same day. We arrived in our city in the middle of the night and spent a few hours sleeping at our coworkers’ house. When the moving truck...

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"There's a first time for everything" ... The many new ones we've experienced

When you move to a new country (especially one literally half way around the world), countless new experiences hit you in the face rather abruptly. Some events are exhilarating and others are downright terrifying.  One day a new experience will make you want to stand in a corner and cry, and...

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