Category: Family Life

This is what a real husband looks like. He doesn’t have a wardrobe of the latest in men’s fashion. His kids needed new winter boots,…

I recently took a trip to visit my parents. Took most of the children with me so that my wife could finish a book project…

Jude is almost two. Not quite, but almost. Close enough to feel a little silly saying, “21 months,” because really… in twelve weeks? He’ll be two.

Three nights away. Three much-anticipated nights away with Daddy, which would be full of the adventure of visiting Mamaw and Papaw, exploring a much-beloved museum,…

This isn’t a milk and honey season for us. Everything– time, money, the ability to stop and simply be present for a few hours each…

As much as I’d like to escape some of my first-world problems while overseas, sadly I cannot. Life just doesn’t stop here because I’m there.…

The hardest part of moving from one home to another is leaving behind the memories. Yes, I have missed certain elements of a specific home’s…

I cried. I’ll tell you that right up front, so that you pick up the thread of this post with its full weight. I cried right…

On this day a year ago, I had no idea that this place I now call home even existed.

I met Babita when she was 12, two years after we first placed her picture on our refrigerator. It was the summer of 2009, and…