the road less traveled

A couple weeks ago, I saw this quote on Instagram and took a screenshot and saved it to my phone. For another time. ✨For today. 💫I’m going to go off of social media for a bit. Go inward to try something different. I’ve had a fear of going off Social Media. Like, how will I … Continue reading Something Different

When Deia was 5 hours old, she started projectile vomiting on me, after she had only nursed and received colostrum. It was terrifying… holding this fresh, pure, just birthed baby at home after a water birth, and she is puking up the only thing she had taken in. It proceeded to happen a few more … Continue reading “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food….” Hippocrates

When I last left Nosara, Costa Rica I thought it was anything but the “Pure Life.” I had two ninos under the age of 3, was recently recovering from a 2 month bout of some sort of parasite, and was covered in layers of dust mixed with sweat. It’s been exactly 5 years since we … Continue reading Pura Vida

8 years ago I was about to walk down the aisle. No kids. No plans. No worries. No thought of ANYthing except that I got to go see my man out past the rancho, right where I had fallen in love with him some 5 years before, surrounded by most of our family and friends. … Continue reading Butterflies

I wrote the following letter to my friends after I had to cancel a New Moon Circle morning at my house. I had been so excited the week leading up to a little gathering in my new home. I had been planning and gathering information. And then the morning of, Deia woke up with a … Continue reading Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver

This Wednesday, January 29, 2003 we took to bus to Liberia to take care of bank things. We were joking that we could be in the middle of any country together (versus the coast) and still be happy because we had each other. Once we took care of all of our errands we went and … Continue reading “Stuck in the Middle” With You

Saturday, January 25, 2003……. 10AM The sun shone through the windows of Almost Paradise. I got up out of bed and found that everyone else was already gone. I went and ate some fruit and the manager of the hotel drew me a map. I had no idea where I was, or where the beach … Continue reading Initiation

Friday, January 24, 2003 School’s out at noon, and I find Spencer. With me are 8 other friends. He gives me a funny look. I ask him why. He says, “Are you ready?” and points to a little two door taxi he had arranged. His boards are on top of the car. Uh oh, I … Continue reading Almost Paradise

Thursday, January 23, 2003 I did get my purse back at the end of the night. The next day at school, Spencer and I were talking at break and he was telling me about this place called Nosara, a couple hours south. He said he spent a couple weeks there with his family right before … Continue reading “Nosara”

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 I had been hanging out with a Costa Rican guy for about a month now but it really was just very Wednesday because it was Ladies Night at the local bar in our dusty little village. And that meant lots of Salsa dancing. We used the term “Amigovio.” So this Wednesday … Continue reading Can You Please Hold My Purse?

11 years ago today, I began my 5th consecutive week of Spanish Language School in Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica. That Monday morning, after two hours of speaking Spanish in a small group of a couple students and one teacher, it was time for our break. I was exhausted. I went out to the little cafe … Continue reading Monday, January 20th 2003

Tia Kristin just moved out here to live with us. In exchange for living with us, she is going to help with the kids. We are all so excited and grateful that she is here. It’s so special for the kids to have their Papa’s sister here and to really get to know her and … Continue reading Leis With Aloha

That’s right! Coffee from OUR yard! And yes, we got to drink it!…. Over the weekend Spencer and Gavin picked coffee beans from some bushes that border the back of our property. Next, we laid the seeds out in the sun for a day. Then we had a bunch of Gavin’s friends over to hull them- … Continue reading Cafecito

Building our home with no job(S). Hmm. And two kids. Hmm. And neither of us have been working for the last few months. HMMM. I can openly and honestly say that I have not experienced the anxiety, fear and heaviness that the last two months have bestowed upon me/us. This is not to say that … Continue reading The Land of Rainbows

We moved in to “home” almost a week ago. We don’t have much of our stuff yet, as it’s all being shipped over from California. So it didn’t take us long to get what we do have in here. It has been pretty wonderful putting things away knowing that we are here to stay. I … Continue reading Home

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When I wrote a post on July 18th, the day before we moved over here that it was the last day we’d be living out of a suitcase, it slipped my mind that we still had to find our “perfect house.” So it’s been two weeks since then, and we’re still living out of our … Continue reading Gettin Creative

Deia is now standing for about a minute on her own. And the other day when Spencer and Gavin got home, she stood up by herself from kneeling, and took FOUR steps toward them!! When she isn’t thinking too much about what is going on, she just does it. Easy as pie….she goes for it. … Continue reading Trust & Surrender = Growth