If you’ve been around here, you know that David is from Costa Rica. He grew up as a PK (pastor’s kid), and his parents are still unselfishly working with churches today. For the past 12 years or so, his dad, also named David, has pastored a church plant in El Paso, Texas. I don’t know [...]
Mother’s Day feels like it’s supposed to be like my birthday, at least I feel like I want it to be. But when it comes down to it, it’s a lot more complicated. Even though what would be really nice on Mother’s Day would be to just have a day to relax and not have [...]
I have wondered many times why God allowed me to be born here, grow up in relative comfort, and be blessed beyond belief by the family he’s given me…
we’ve been wanting for a while to ask our kids random questions and record what they say, if for nothing else than to crack ourselves up when we’re old and grey. so Krista (I think?) had the fun idea to ask them some questions about dreams and adventure. we were visiting some friends and she [...]
we are still here. still alive. still behind on life. mostly only feeling insane if we think too much. so we’re trying to be hyper focused on an hour at a time… just checking in to let you know that we *think* we’ll be leaving on Tuesday! (thus some of the feelings) we don’t actually [...]
this morning I sort of woke up and thought oh goooooooood it’s Monday!!! we’re cleaning our house today! I sort of heard Mr. D take Maverick to the bathroom and then get the kids going on breakfast. I thought, yay! he’s getting up first so I can finally get caught up on a little sleep! [...]
sometimes the world’s best babysitter (aka grandma) doesn’t feel so hot. sometimes that has very unfortunate timing. like a monthaversary, which as you might guess, only comes around once a month. today we had the chance to pick a day full of bad attitudes (which, truth be known, it started to head there a wee [...]
