There are few times during the year when our family is not together. We are accustomed to being together so when one of us is gone for 2 or more days, it is out of the ordinary. When I was hired for Automattic, I knew that part of the job included traveling a few times … More Not Home Together – Dad goes to Barcelona
The end of October is a very busy time for our family. In the span of 6 days, we celebrate Dad and EC’s birthdays, CJ’s adoption day, EB’s adoption day and Halloween! Lots of special meals, gifts, and decorations. We have developed some traditions for Halloween. The past few years we have gone out for an … More Halloween Traditions
As it turns out, there is an inherent problem with starting a blog about being too busy to write a blog. I have not written a post in a few months. Have you ever felt like you were pushing a boulder up a hill? You make a bit of progress and when you stop to take a … More When you are too busy to write a blog about being too busy
2015 was a transitional year for me. I changed careers after 11 years in full-time ministry. Once it begain, the transition seemed to span most of the year. While things unfolded before me, the path leading up to the transition seemed to extend behind me – revealing that this was some time in the making. In the … More What I learned in 2015
After 11 years in full-time ministry, one collects many important books. One also collects many seemingly important books. After the books sat in our storage room in the same boxes they arrived in 8 months before, I decided it was time to get them out of here. I took the books from my old office, combined … More My Big Book Purge
Back in late 2008, I was introduced to internet business and I started learning about various ways how people make money online. I soon began building my own websites and experimented with internet marketing and small online business ideas. Years later, in early 2014, I heard about Amazon’s FBA program and the success ordinary people … More FBA – How we make extra cash selling on Amazon
As a parent, have you ever wondered how in the world your house has accumulated so many toys? We sure have. In fact, we ask this question on a regular basis. Especially in December when the inflow of toys tends to increase. We try to regularly donate old toys and (secretly) throw out broken toys, but it seems to … More Why we are losing the toy battle
When we set out, we did not plan to have a family that was outside the mold. However, it all started when two adventurous people got married, enjoyed a bit of life together and decided to start a family. And the Lord said let there be children After about 9 months of, well, no luck, … More At Home Together – Our Story
It rained all day in Seattle today. However, despite its reputation, this was the only day it was rainy. We actually had great weather otherwise! Woke up Breakfast / work / hanging out at “home” Went to Panera for lunch (lucked out finding parking right in front) Went to the Seattle Children’s Museum Went to … More Day 11 – Thursday in Seattle
Woke up and had a slow morning Dad worked a bit, Mom cleaned the van out, kids watched TV Headed to Seward Park where we played on the playground, took a big walk/hike and played along the shore of Lake Washington Went for pizza for lunch in Columbia City, a few blocks from our place … More Day 10 – Long day in Seattle
Above is our route, more or less, for the first leg of the trip. It’s pretty crazy to think we drove this whole way (wait till you see the way back!). 8 overnights. 10 states. 49 bathroom breaks. And we only ate at McDonald’s one time. Here are the events from this day: Woke … More Day 9 – We made it!
This day was a travel day. We had a lot of ground to cover. Originally, we had planned to go back in to Yellowstone for part of this day and arrive late at our hotel but after a nice full day before in Yellowstone, we were content to move on and enjoy a longer evening at … More Day 8 – Almost there
Got up early, packed, ate the last of our breakfast type food and left Greybull, Wyoming. Drove through Cody Drove through beautiful mountains and finally reached the East Entrance to Yellowstone. After a few minutes winding through forest recovering from forest fire, we came upon a group of people looking at something far off in … More Day 7 – Yellowstone National Park
We awoke early and started packing – opting to not take showers, though the shower house was remarkably nice While we packed, EB tested out his new slingshot (he bought at Wall Drug) and the kids climbed on a large rock formation right next to our cabin. After a short play at the playground (long enough for CJ to … More Day 6 – Devil’s Tower
The day begins at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota The night was COLD and there was NO heat in our bunk house so the sleep was not great Woke up to a brisk South Dakota sunrise and it was beautiful After washing up a bit and packing up, we hit the road early … More Day 5 – Black Hills, South Dakota
