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Intimacy in an RV?
We are often asked how we have any privacy, let alone intimacy, living on the road with four boys all together, all the time. Well...
Katie Smith
Feb 203 min read
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Returning Home?
After nine months on the road, we finally returned "home" for some important doctors appointments. While we don't have a physical home in...
Katie Smith
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Eyes of Shame-City Travel with Kids
I've noticed a trend while walking down the busiest streets in North America with kids. Instead of hiding from the unpleasantries, the...
Katie Smith
Oct 30, 20242 min read
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Disorientation-waking up confused
It has happened many times. I wake up, and I'm not sure what day it is, what time it is, or what I'm going to see out my window. I can't ...
Katie Smith
Aug 23, 20243 min read
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When You're the Only One-- NOT on Vacation
We often hear late night owls, laughter, or loud music during these warm, longer days. But these noises always reverberate more harshly...
Katie Smith
Jul 28, 20243 min read
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I Hate it, but I Love it
“I hate it, but I love it.” My husband and I frequently use this quip, mocking an old workout DVD. The infamous trainer quotes it...
Katie Smith
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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Forcing it to Fit
Square peg in a round hole. Too tight. Too small. There are a million and one ways to say that something doesn't work, but it takes...
Katie Smith
May 19, 20243 min read
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New Kids on the Block
Being the "new kid on the block" can feel like your a shiny new toy-- fresh, fun, and fairly mysterious. No one knows your full...
Katie Smith
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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Cross Between Camp and Mission
We sort of feel like we have been living in a constant state of summer camp mixed with a mission trip. Our stuff is jammed in trunks,...
Katie Smith
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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My Oxygen Mask
Recently my cavity-prone child had to get a few more "quadrants" of baby teeth filled, mostly due to overcrowding and a strong gag, but I...
Katie Smith
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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Roses or thorns-which do you see?
We had finally made the kitchen at our first home the way I would have wanted it all those many meals made during the years prior. But we...
Katie Smith
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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We are getting off...
Stepping off the hamster wheel A friend just told us, "I get up, take the kids to school, workout, work, come home, eat dinner, play with...
Katie Smith
Nov 28, 20233 min read
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Scared
My kids were recently discussing what they were scared of after one of them was screaming at the sight of a talking mannequin, albeit a...
Katie Smith
Sep 5, 20233 min read
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Intimacy
Most people aren't comfortable talking about intimacy, which makes perfect sense because the word is characterized by an atmosphere...
Katie Smith
May 13, 20233 min read
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Keeping fruit fresh
There's nothing more convenient then picking up your food already packaged and purchased either from the comfort of your vehicle or...
Katie Smith
Feb 13, 20233 min read
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WHAT WENT WRONG-Travel Tips: Renting
Travel Pros and Cons for a Trailer Within the first 15 minutes of picking up Avenger, our 38 ft rented travel trailer, there was a flat...
Katie Smith
Jul 31, 20223 min read
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How to talk to kids about gender identity
We over-complicate by over-simplifying. Concepts like love, truth, and identity are muddied for kids merely wanting to play in the mud...
Katie Smith
Jul 17, 20223 min read
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Travel Tips: Kids in Class C
Why would anyone in their right mind want to live cramped in an RV when you could just find an outdoor play space or hiking trail near...
Katie Smith
Jun 7, 20224 min read
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No Time like the Present
"God is not in the present. All moments are present to God" (Tim Keller sermon podcast). We splinter our lives into fragments: infancy,...
Katie Smith
Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Traveling Homebody
A vigilant vagabond, in carefully careless living, I represent the traveling homebody. You know you don't have to fit into one prescribed...
Katie Smith
Feb 1, 20223 min read
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