Recently, my husband accidentally stumbled across some affirmations I had written in my journal months before we left for our family vacation. He shared his surprise that I had begun to mentally prepare for the trip long before we left. We were planning to spend 12 days visiting his family in Germany and …
When I’m traveling I want to spend as much time doing and seeing what I came to do and see. I don’t want to spend hours at night hunting for items, packing and repacking. I’d rather spend that extra hour or so out and about or kicking my feet back. …
My in-laws live in Germany – for the last 39 years as missionaries to our American military who are stationed there. They left Lancaster, PA and moved to Ulm, Germany when my husband was four years old. That’s my husband, swinging on his Grandpa’s arms with his brother at the …
I blinked my eyes purposefully, as if they were the shutter on a camera, and I was taking a mental picture of this moment I didn’t want to forget. The steam rose from the tea as I took a sip. The night had just cooled off enough for the hot mug to …
