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    Christmas Gift Ideas for Coffee Lovers

    Have you ever wondered what Christmas gift to get the coffee guy who has everything? I sure have! Being married to the coffee-est-coffee-guy of them all, I often have a…

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    Let’s Build A Coffee Washing Station!

    We are beginning something that makes our family pretty close to giddy.  Giddy is really not my thing. I’m the Midwestern American stoic type… (with a strange leaning towards living…

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  • “You, like, really LIVE here!”

    Our lovely friends Brandon and Abby just departed from the shores of Africa after a two week stay with us. We have never laughed so hard or created so many…

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  • Long Miles Coffee Project

    An Open Letter

    Dear One in the sky and in my heart, What is your plan? I would really like to know. The thing is, it’s hard work trusting you right now. Why…

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  • expat kids, burundi, kigoma

    Go Do.

    I can see it faintly through the cracks. An ache to be more like them. It’s a longing for the carefree-fall-into-bed-exhausted-but-happy days of childhood, but it’s also more. My boys…

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    For the love.

    For the love. For the love of authenticity and discovering FEAR as a friend and digging deep and UNEARTHING our truest selves and seeing GOD in life and understanding our…

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  • Babbling about: 5 tips for taking great kid photos

    I have had lots of questioning emails and phone calls this month asking me “What’s up with this Babble thing?” The truth is that I have been so busy being…

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  • Featured: VSCO Film, One Day With Us

    A few weeks ago I felt like I was living a blogger’s fairytale. This barely ever happens to us bloggers, by the way. Our lives consist of late night writing…

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  • gingerbread spice syrup, gingerbread spice latte, gingerbread coffee

    Homemade Gingerbread Spice Syrup

    I was in the States when Starbucks started selling their Pumpkin Spice Latte for the season. After tasting one, I was determined to start experimenting with flavored simple syrups. I had…

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  • kids in africa, raising kids in africa, africa, children in africa

    And The Goodness Rolls In…

    All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson I started asking God for moments. I asked for moments that…

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  • cold press coffee, making cold press coffee, cold brew coffee, making iced coffee, iced coffee

    Brew Guide: Amazingly easy cold brew coffee

     You might think that making cold brew coffee is a difficult and time consuming process. I did too, until we started making it and I realized it’s about as easy…

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  • raising expat kids, burundi,

    The Weekend Car Wash | Things to do in Burundi

    In Burundi their isn’t a huge variety of weekend activities to choose from. We usually aren’t daunted by this, but it does lead to the induction of some interesting weekend…

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