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Living and traveling with peace in organized chaos
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Katie Smith
Jul 12, 20243 min read
Uprooting our kids
I remember living in the same house for the first nine years of my life. Moving day felt like mourning day-- a tragic ending to a once...
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Katie Smith
Jun 30, 20243 min read
Turn it upside down
When there's a problem, when things aren't working, we look for a solution. Something needs to change. However, change usually alters our...
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Katie Smith
Jun 23, 20243 min read
Some time passed
Over and over I keep reading about time passing in an ambiguous way. "Some time passed..." "After a long time..." "Some time later..."...
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Katie Smith
Jun 16, 20243 min read
BOTTLING- how NOT to capture a moment
We all do it. We don't want the "perfect" moments to end, so we try to take enough pictures, store enough keepsakes, extend the trip a...
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Katie Smith
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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...
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Katie Smith
May 29, 20243 min read
My Turn!
"God sometimes allows you to be tested in a way that requires you to sacrifice your own well-being. At such times, it seems only right...
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Katie Smith
May 19, 20243 min read
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...
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Katie Smith
May 13, 20243 min read
Red Eyes Moments- No Filter
We brought a few photo books with us in the rig, and the boys found an old picture from college where Matthew and I both have red eyes....
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Katie Smith
May 5, 20243 min read
The end of the story
You know those cartoons where a character is running around doing so much that smoke spews from her ears and springs fly out with dust...
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Katie Smith
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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...
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Katie Smith
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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,...
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Katie Smith
Apr 13, 20243 min read
What are we doing here?
I have often asked myself why are we here? We aren't serving, volunteering, or giving our time in the traditional sense, and the teacher ...
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Katie Smith
Apr 6, 20243 min read
Not crushing it
Sometime last year we had a zoom meeting with community group leaders from our church. The breakout sessions all began with an open-ended...
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Katie Smith
Mar 31, 20243 min read
Faithless Wind--blown down by breeze
A breeze blesses hot skin. A feeling that the Lord is with you on a hot day. A gust tears away everything in its path. A feeling that God...
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Katie Smith
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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...
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Katie Smith
Mar 17, 20243 min read
Mary Poppins Pride
If you've ever met someone who always has the very thing you need in the very moment you need it, then you've met my mother. Whether its...
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Katie Smith
Mar 10, 20243 min read
A Decade Later, A Different Road
10 years ago we were traveling by car (as seen above) in the countryside of southern France. Our travel garmand was dying and our small,...
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Katie Smith
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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...
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Katie Smith
Feb 25, 20243 min read
Finding our Swing, on the Road
I picked up a great biography for my own summer reading last year, "Boys in a Boat." If you're not into crew, rowing, Nazi Germany, or...
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Katie Smith
Feb 15, 20243 min read
Is this normal?
In all my pediatric medical experience (which only amounts to a little less than a decade of intensive motherly care units), I've...
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