CAREFULLY CARELESS

Living and traveling with peace in organized chaos

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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...

Katie Smith

Jul 12, 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...

Katie Smith

Jun 30, 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..."...

Katie Smith

Jun 23, 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...

Katie Smith

Jun 16, 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...

Katie Smith

Jun 9, 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...

Katie Smith

May 29, 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...

Katie Smith

May 19, 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....

Katie Smith

May 13, 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...

Katie Smith

May 5, 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...

Katie Smith

Apr 29, 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,...

Katie Smith

Apr 21, 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 ...

Katie Smith

Apr 13, 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...

Katie Smith

Apr 6, 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...

Katie Smith

Mar 31, 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...

Katie Smith

Mar 24, 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...

Katie Smith

Mar 17, 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,...

Katie Smith

Mar 10, 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...

Katie Smith

Mar 3, 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...

Katie Smith

Feb 25, 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...

Katie Smith

Feb 15, 20243 min read

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