If you have a large family, you know how quickly going places can get expensive. What was a fun outing for our family of four has become almost completely unaffordable for our family of six. Needless to say, when we want to take the kids somewhere new, we do a good bit of research first. Our recent trip to New Orleans was no exception. We've visited often ...
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10 Ways to Widen Your Worldview
We live in small-town Mississippi so one of the things I have to be intentional about is helping expand my children's worldview. It's easy to forget the big, wide world is out there and tempting to think it's pretty much the same as here (or worse, to think it should be). So, with our homeschool curriculum and with other parts of our lives, we try to make sure they have ...
The world is wide.
It's nap time, and I'm sitting here sipping some coffee straight from Kenya and nibbling a bit of dark chocolate and thinking how perfect they taste together on this Mississippi afternoon. As I savor the rich flavor that comes only from Kenya, I think of coffee farms and tea fields, and if I close my eyes, I can almost feel the wind on my face and the warmth of the sun beating ...
Well, that was an adventure….
I'm sitting in Nairobi, hoping the fatigue I feel will overcome the adrenaline and allow me to fall asleep tonight. Not sure it can though because from the moment I realized my flight from Houston was delayed, adrenaline stepped in, and I've been running on it ever since. And, I do mean running. In fact, in all my travels, and there have been a few, I ran to more gates in the past 24 hours ...