Every morning I wake up, get my kids juice cups ready, waffles thrown in the toaster, cup of coffee made and sit down and scroll through Instagram and Facebook to see what my friends and family back in the states have been up to while I was sleeping. I love seeing the occasional engagements, birth…

Life has been busy… Little tedious things seem to be filling up our weeks and time is flying by as we creep up to our 6 month mark here on the island. It is crazy to believe we have been here that long but at the same time it feels like we have been here…

Last night at 5 o’clock I walked out of my bedroom door and past my oldest daughter’s room. Her window had been open because we had a beautiful, cool breeze this day. As I looked in, I see her standing on her tippy toes, peering just above the ledge of the window with her hand…

I got in my car stuffed with a mix of my friend’s kids and my own in the backseat after what was, for the most part, a beautiful afternoon and looked over at my friend with tears in my eyes and just started apologizing… “Im so sorry, I know all I do is scream when we’re…

Hello family and friends! Here we are already in FEBRUARY…Holy smokes, I feel like time is flying! We have been a little quieter lately settling more into what our everyday life is going to be like here in Okinawa, with that comes the good and bad. On the bad side, when things start to slow down…

I sit here in my cluttered living room looking around at the toys scattered about by my 3 kids, dry cereal crunched into the carpet, the dishwasher running, Henry Hugglemonster blaring, and the sounds of fighter jets buzzing over my house. I feel like I have already won today because everyone is dressed, teeth brushed,…

That time of year has arrived yet again, the “New year, new me”… I love this and hate this all at the same time. I love seeing people motivated and ready to grab ahold of their lives and make adjustments to enrich themselves. I hate that it lasts about .235634 seconds and then everything is back…

In life we all strive to find friendships that feed our souls, make us better people, set examples of the lives we want to live, and overall infulence us to lift each other up. The problem we come across here is that no one is perfect, and no one carries every single quality we “need”…

I could start in so many places with the things we have done and places we have gone since arriving on the island, honestly we have done more here in a month then we did compiled over a near 5 year time window in Oklahoma. We have seen beaches, ate authentic cuisine, learned how to…

So here we are, one week in. Let me preface with Japan. Is. Beautiful. So lets start with our travelling over… We had all of our bags packed and crammed into our tiny TLF (temporary living facilities) for a few days before we left Oklahoma. Its amazing how somewhere you have lived for over 4…