Years ago during the long and difficult process of adopting our sons from Haiti, the lyrics and harmonies of one song in particular echoed t...

Our Sundays mornings can often be messy. I'm not referring to schedules, attitudes or general household clutter (although I'm sure s...

Dear Owen, Today is your 20th birthday. Two decades. How is that even possible?! We loved you before we even met you. Twenty years ago, whil...

I remember receiving the news about my dad in September 2013, while enjoying the blessing of my in-laws' three-month visit to Chile. The...

Wednesday, December 25 When Silas, wearing yesterday's clothes he'd fallen asleep in, popped into our third-floor bedroom with a che...

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 As usual, Silas was up bright and early on Christmas Eve with his excitement for the holidays brimming over! Our ...

Friday, December 20, 2024 We carried out our family Christmas tradition of exchanging names and finding a $5 mil gift at the feria navideña ...

Sometimes it's difficult to pull up the memory of what happened just a few hours ago, much less last week.  The purpose of this post is ...

Dear Isabel, On your birthday and every day, I am thankful to God for your beautiful life. From feisty toddler to spunky girl to tired yet h...

"Our life is so weird!" The great thing about 27 years married to Pedro, including 15 years in the city of Iquique, is that I can...

I am not sure when we first noticed the beggar man. I feel funny calling him that, but those two words describe his condition. He was a man ...

Dear Owen, Celebrating my children's birthdays from a continent away is something I never want to get used to. I'm writing this lett...

Dear Alec,  You were the fourth of the five "middles" (cousins) to reach this milestone 16th birthday! How time has truly flown by...

We don't have local TV or cable, depending instead on online articles and news sources to stay informed of the goings on around us. Some...

A humorous memory from our furlough travels involves Silas reading seemingly endless knock-knock jokes to the rest of us in the family vehic...