The Grateful Heart

With Thanksgiving Day upon us, I start to think about all the blessings that have come into our lives. And by “blessings”, I mean things that I don’t deserve, but for some reason, I am assigned to steward for a moment. Nothing belongs to me.

The Decision

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

The Bugs

WARNING: This post is not for the faint of heart. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Back-To-School Edition

This week also marks back-to-school workshop week for teachers in Minnesota, which in all honesty, was always a difficult time for our family.

The Highlands

And I think that’s how honor works. Through rain or shine, thick or thin, come hell or high water- giving honor where honor is due is of great importance in this life. Because when we honor, we remember where we’ve come from and the people that have given of themselves to get us where we are today.

Oaxaca in Gabrielas perspective -2

As in my previous chapter. We live in a charmingly cute rustic house. As you have heard We are in the middle of the mountins Which is far from the noise of the city. So I can hear the dogs barking and birds singing me out of bed. And getting dirt from the bottom of […]

Oaxaca – Gabriela’s Perspective

The green mountains behind our house are beautiful. They look like Tefiti resting, like in the movie Moana.

Two-Week Hiatus

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Grandmotherland

Have you ever had a relative make you feel so guilty for not having visited them in a long time? You know, the snide remarks? The passive aggressive, well if you had visited me more often, you would have known this? The begrudging serving of a meal? Staring with disdain? And yet they want you in their home, and really don’t want you to leave?

The Upper Room

After selling our house, we had 30 days to figure out where to live, and in between that, putting all our things into storage, and dealing with the loss of my beautiful grandmother in Texas. In the end, we only had two weeks to figure out our living situation for the six weeks before leaving […]