It’s Monday morning, and I thought I’d do something different this by writing a post for all the little ones out there.   Enjoy! Meet Mr. Tookay!  He lived in our jungle house.  Have you ever seen a Gecko?  Mr. Tookay kind of looks like a Gecko except he is like a GIGANTICA Gecko!  He has [...]

We are home as of late last night.  I can’t tell you how good it is to be home, in my own bed, in my kitchen, with my mom brining dinner over tonight.  Brian and I feel dead to the world from jet lag, but the kids act as if we just got back from [...]

I was going to post photos from Angkor Wat today, but I’ve got to push it back another day b/c I’m in SHOCK!  We are making our way back home, and decided to stay two nights in Bangkok to break up the long journey. A dear friend of the family, who lives in Bangkok, helped [...]

After we left the orphanage in Phnom Penh, we flew to Siem Reap to explore one of the seven wonders of the world with our cameras:  Angkor Wat.  We had been so involved with the orphanage, loving every moment, that we forgot to book a hotel in Siem Reap.  So there I was, sitting in [...]

Where does one begin after the last couple weeks?  I must admit that I’m in tears, as I start writing this post.  At one point, I never knew when I’d have the strength to write a new post.  But alas, I’m so thankful to meet you here this morning.  Kari’s Mamabloo Photo Tale post was [...]

She Spoke too soon

Me Ra spoke too soon yesterday. This is her Husband, Brian. Last night after posting her blog and after dinner, she went to bed with her whole body hurting. No, not throwing up, but she’s got the same thing as the kids. This morning, she felt well enough to let me know I was in [...]

Our life has been made up of vomit and diarrhea the last seven days.  Yep, there is no nice way to put it but just say it as it is.  If this had lasted for one to three days, I don’t think I’d use a whole blog post to share.  BUT as of last night [...]

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.  And then the storm came.  It was the worst storm that month for San Diego.  The wind knocked our plane [...]

“It’s peculiar, to reach your destination,” he told me.  “You think you’ll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment.  Instead you get there and find distance still to go.” -So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger This quote couldn’t sum up the last few weeks of my life any [...]

Breakfast with Brian

We have left the island of Koh Tao.  But before parting, I had to share this image.  Every morning we had breakfast at this table overlooking the bay.  Brian was feeling so stuffed up, but doesn’t the scene itself look serene.  The kids would climb the rocks, and we would sit and read over a [...]