I smiled when I read the words…they were SO true!
I happened upon a blog of a man that was describing how when he thinks he has come up with a new idea, he soon finds that others have beat him to it. Its kinda like the “new car syndrome” where after you purchase a new...
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Here is another case where those of you that read our blog for the travel stories will wonder what this post has to do with anything travel related, well, the short answer is that it doesn’t - but it has a lot to do with the changes we made in our personal lives that led...
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It is 6:10 pm and nobody is here. Do I have the right day? Is this the correct field? You run through a list of questions in your head as your daughter asks over and over, where is everyone daddy? You pickup your cell phone and call your wife, who is darting across town trying...
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Tags: 10 Years, Appointment, Basketball Practice, Cell Phone, Countless Activities, Dinner Table, Home Cooked Meal, Homework, Late In The Evening, Official Time, Parents, Phone Call, Piano, Practice Basketball, Reflection, Soccer Practice, Spending Time, Squares
I believe that the majority of us would like to start living a life of balance. I observe friends, family, and others I meet and see many aspects of their lives that are skewed one way or the other. I have also observed that very few folks that I know spend much time looking at...
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I will confess that I have spent more time thinking about gardens during the past 12 months than I probably have done for all of my other 44 years combined. Kinda weird really…and I am thinking about getting a check up to make sure that there is nothing wrong with me.
Actually it is not as...
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I have struggled from the very beginning with what the focus of Portable Parents Blog should be and what sort of content/stories I should write about and what I shouldn’t include on the website. I had not really thought of writing a blog until it was recommended to me by a friend, I thought I...
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Drum roll please….
Gina and I made the decision that we will return with the kids to the U.S. sometime in September!
What this means is not exactly clear…the decision was really more of a “what next” moment than a long thought out plan of our next steps.
Gina’s mother and step father are visiting us in Buenos...
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A quick update…
When last we spoke the Lannin’s had made a last minute detour from Mendoza to a little town called Obera in N. Eastern Argentina.
We came here for the purpose of investigating a house sit, or an opportunity to care for someone’s house while they are away. Think of babysitting, except this a...
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Crystal clear mountain lakes, endless high plains, majestic snow-capped mountains, a view of a city like no other, dragging luggage through the streets of La Paz, almost being ripped off by money changers, and enjoying the best pizza in all of Latin America…just a little of what we experienced during our travels from Copacabana to...
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“I don’t wanna wake up” shatters the morning stillness. A similar refrain is repeated by the other child across the room, “leave me alone!” they shriek wrestling the bed covers back over their heads. The roar of the rushing river outside the bedroom river helps drown out their cries for help from the other guests,...
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