Home Design Inspiration 2015

Six months between posts; nope, we'll never win an award. But those six months have been packed with traveling, seeing more of everything there is to see than the kids bargained for. They're tired now and are ready to get back to a real life. And frankly...

When I went home this summer to take care of the odds and ends of a house burnt down, I also learned of the horrible news that one of my closest friends, Dack, had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and that he had, at best—six months to live...

We moved. Packed up most of what we owned and put it in storage, sold off vehicles and toys long outgrown, shipped off things that would not fit in suitcases, said “See you later” to friends, turned the keys to the house over to my brother, and left...

How can you possibly justify sending your son off to school, and then basically tag along? What good comes of uprooting the rest of the family just to be nearby one child “just in case?” He'll have his cousin right there, so why not just let him go?
This has been the undercurrent of many conversations of late, it's not verbatim quotations, merely paraphrasing. Friends are genuinely surprised that we would be willing to just pull up stakes and move to another country with what appears to be little...