The Truth About Pursuing What We Love
August 16th, 2010
Moms, Guilt and Lies!
June 22nd, 2010
Walking into a New World: My Dad
It is Monday afternoon, June 21st. I’m sitting in the hospital cafeteria. We have been here for seven days. The days have meshed together that sometimes it feels like we just got here and other times a single day feels like a year. At 11:30am, last Monday, I was on the phone with my brothers. [...]
June 14th, 2010
I am a Work in Progress: Self Portraits Revisited
I am back from being in Denver all weekend. The trip was wonderful on so many levels, but it’s always good to be home. Today is the second Monday of the month which means it’s time to post a new SOAR! photography exercise. I’ve asked the SOAR! Recipients to revisit the idea of Self Portraits. [...]
June 9th, 2010
How My Kids Inspire Me as an Artist
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 option. [...]
June 8th, 2010
The Best Part to Losing Our Luggage…
…was this little note waiting for me on my bed from Blaze. How can you not love that! Good news New York CONFIDENCE ladies! Our suitcase of workshop materials was found! We have NO IDEA what faraway places our suitcase traveled to, but it is back with us. We are excited to send you a [...]
June 2nd, 2010
22 Women, 1 Lost Suitcase and a Missed Flight equals…
…an intense-intense four days in New Jersey and New York. Our suitcase with all, and I mean ALL, our workshop materials was lost. But the NY CONFIDENCE women were so great—they just rolled with it. And we had a POWERFUL weekend together. After the workshop ended, we started Monday morning with a baby [...]
May 26th, 2010
My Beginning Will Not Be My End
(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.” [...]
May 13th, 2010
My Mother’s Day Surprise!
I have the most amazing husband in the world. Brian worked all last week on a big surprise for Mother’s Day. He kept telling me how it was going to be all about me because he’s messed up enough in the past, and he is much wiser and older now. For instance, he assured [...]
May 5th, 2010
Guess Who Turns Six Today!
His birthday breakfast vision is very clear. It needs to happen in our bed (not his?) with blueberry pancakes, lots of melted butter and syrup. He wants a GI Joe birthday part in our backyard. And he’s begging for a scavenger hunt (feel free to share any ideas! ) Pascaline already gave him his birthday [...]
May 4th, 2010
Guess What’s Inside? It’s a Mother’s Day Gift for YOU!
It’s Mother’s Day, and we want to celebrate all the beautiful women out there who are mamas! There are all different types of moms from the one who feels like everyday is a saran wrap day as she peels her little ones off her, to the woman who loves on her students at school, to [...]
