Garden City, Kansas

Yesterday morning we left the hotel in Blue Springs and headed straight to Starbucks. It was almost 10am. I had had a hard time getting movin’ and we were definitely lagging! Graham texted to ask where we were. I had just parked the car at Starbucks so I texted him that we were at the…

Playin’ on Silver Lake

Tuesday we rented a boat and played on the lake that Dw had grown up on….and take a gander at that smile of his…you can see how much it ministered to his sweet soul….this man loves being on a boat probably most of all… Checkin’ out the water just as we start to take off…….

Wandering Home

Well here I am, in a Tim Horton’s in Tonawanda, NY. I had no intention of going back to where I grew up. Not this trip anyway. But somehow it is pulling me back….and so here I am. Emma and Josh willingly have come with me and we are headed to check out my old…

The Real Cottage

If you’ve been hanging around A Place Called Simplicity for any length of time you might remember that when we bought the RV last year we were dreaming {albeit unrealistically} that it was going to be “our beloved cottage.” For all the years we lived in Western New York we had spent much of our…

Davenport, Iowa

Late yesterday afternoon, just as it quit raining, we stopped for a quick pit stop and there was a large patch of grass nearby…and the kids ran back and forth and back and forth and back racing and running and burning some crazy energy… And really, could it get any better than this?A Cracker Barrel…

Gothenburg, Nebraska

Josh is on the trip with us….Emma can’t wait to have him meet her grandma and see New York….where we vacationed all the time when we pastored on the East coast… Graham hates having his picture taken…but this proves he’s with us….=) We drove in drizzling rain much of the day yesterday. The kids did…

Her Day in Pictures

I found that I hadn’t posted Emma’s birthday pictures…and we gotta do that since this is our family journey….of course our traditional breakfast in bed…her favorite:  Jewish Mother Coffee cake and fresh cherries … The two guys who insist they are going to marry Emma… We moved the breakfast outside to the porch…it was a…