Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Chris and I love to plan. Plan plan plan. It’s one of our favorite things to do. Our plans often don’t work out, like our brilliant plan to get pregnant in December because we’d be together all spring and summer (ha), or our plan to hopefully move to Maryland after Japan (ha ha again). Our…
This has been a really weird year. Chris finally got some time off in conjunction with a conference he has to attend in San Diego, but in yet another twist of irony American Airlines won’t let my layover last more than seven days. That means I’m stuck in Texas for his first three days Stateside….
Sometimes I babysit my brother and sister-in-law’s kiddos when they use their season tickets to the Alley Theater. Imagine my surprise when Amber instead invited me to take Luke’s place for a recent showing of Pygmalion! The name is taken from the Greek myth where a sculptor named Pygmalion carves a woman so beautiful he…
Kay’s Tea Parlour in historic downtown Katy was the perfect setting for tea time with Auntie Sonja. This tea room is conveniently next door to the shop where I found my cowgirl boots, plus it got a personal shout-out in the latest editor’s note of Tea in Texas Magazine. How could we stay away?The tea…
“I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26Last week my mom’s prayer group friends threw a shower of prayer for my and Hannie’s baby boys. They prayed for us and our husbands as we become parents, and our babies’ safe deliveries, health, and futures. We prayed they will…
Life is busy here yet sometimes it seems like nothing’s happening. Every day is filled with family time, babysitting, a rotating wheel of house guests, errands, etc., but I’m always wondering whether Chris has received our verbal orders telling us when we’ll leave Japan for our next duty station. Will it be this fall? Pushed…
In a bid for reelection Davy Crockett famously told his Tennessee constituents he’d thank them for their votes with more faithful service, but if not, “you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.” A year later, 1835 saw Crockett headed southwest toward the Texas Revolution. We all get here sooner or…
