Happy Thanksgiving, from my turkeys to yours.
Last night our family had a chance to see the new Disney film Frozen in 3-D. After watching a hilarious short featuring the Frozen characters last year, we had long been anticipating the full movie. We really had no idea what to expect except of course for the funny little snowman (Olaf) who has been the star of the previews. What we found was a stunning movie, rich with music…
I’m sitting here in the middle of a messy living room. Toys and coloring pages all around me. Shelves begging to be dusted. Ironing board in the corner, clothes piled high. When life looks like this I get the unshakable urge to simplify. To purge. To toss anything and everything we don’t absolutely need. And while it’s good and important to declutter once in a while, I’m learning that this…
Jeff just returned from a 15-day trip to Malawi, Africa. He met the kids that you helped feed through our Advent Conspiracy coffee stand, and even drank water out of the new boreholes you helped fund. The team he was with also helped over 700 people see clearly for the first time by running multiple vision clinics. I’ll let him share more about his trip soon, but for now we…
When we’re young, we see our future parental life through rose colored glasses and make statements like, “My child will never do that.” We wrinkle our noses at kids in pajamas with wild hair and messy faces at the grocery store. We sigh and roll our eyes at crying babies on airplanes. We naively believe in the family portrait painted in our mind of how our family will look and…
If you have two minutes, watch this short film about Smartphones. Does your life look like this? Do you identify with any of these scenes? I do. It’s like I live my life worried that if I didn’t document something, it didn’t really happen. Obviously this is a lie I have bought into. Ick. But what about the photographer and storyteller in me that is always itching to capture a…
Joe and I had the opportunity to see an advance screening of Disney’s PLANES this week. I would have gotten a cool photo of us sporting our 3D glasses, but they are pretty strict about camera usage. There was a very serious (and buff) security guard that pounced on anyone pulling out anything even resembling a phone. It was quite entertaining. Once the movie started, we settled into our seats…