About Me

This is a picture of my husband and I in front of our old house before we sold it in September of 2007. Since then we have been overseas for 8 months in the Middle East and then traveling to and fro throughout the southern Midwest and Southeast, living out of suitcases and staying with gracious and wonderful friends and family, and finally we have settled down in Overland Park, Kansas, a pretty suburb of Kansas City.

I am originally from Georgia. My wonderful husband, Eric, is from New York and Iowa but lived in Oklahoma for 15 years. We have been very happily married since January 2005. You might ask how in the world we met. Quite simple! We met in the Middle East! Isn’t that the most sensible answer? Our first unofficial date was at a Starbucks on the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. We were married 7 months later! Here are a few interesting tidbits about me.

We now have a son named Wesley Joseph born February 16, 2010. He is the cutest thing ever! He is such an amazing gift. We waited 4 and 1/2 years for this precious treasure. He is a happy little guy that gives us such delight.

I love to read and write, two things I used to not be very good at and didn't do very much. I like to create things and I am a teacher at heart. I absolutely love history, so much so that I got a Masters Degree in it a couple of years ago. Traveling adventures and learning new languages bring me much delight! I adore my hubby! He is my perfect mate, so steady and calm, quite the opposite of me. And most of all, I love Jesus. It is my desire to know Him more and more and to bring others along with me, to not settle for ho-hum Christianity that has nothing real behind it except the right things to say and do. I want to live my life as did Jim Elliot (slain missionary to the Aucas in Ecuador), to not be satisfied with the "usual."

I dreamed as a young girl of traveling all over the world. God has been so gracious to lead me on some awesome adventures overseas to places like Belarus and Lebanon - even to live there for a while. I've also been to Mexico, St. Lucia, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Austria, Germany, London and Paris at least for a few hours up to a week or two and to at least half the states in the US. This is truly something the Lord has put in my heart given that no one on either side of my immediate or extended family has ever left the country except for maybe to Mexico.

Favorite Quotes

• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy for you to believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose that you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? … Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. –C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

• He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot

Favorite Books (Ones I read over and over)

• The Letter to the Philippians by The Apostle Paul
  
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis
• A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
• God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Little House on the Prairie Series Laura Ingalls Wilder
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Favorite Movies (Ones I watch over and over!)

• Pride & Prejudice
• Amazing Grace
• Chariots of Fire
• The Lord of the Rings
• Narnia
• Sense & Sensibility
• Singing in the Rain
• The Parent Trap
• Anne of Green Gables

Favorite Things to Do

• Read History, Classical Education, Theology, the Bible, Biographies, children’s books
• Play with Wesley - I love his giggles!
• Write blogs, emails & children’s stories
• Play outside with plants
• Go on hikes or walks in the woods, in the mountains
• Sew, Crochet, Cross Stitch, make cards, paint,
• Peruse Book stores & libraries
• Chat with friends
• Talk about Jesus, discuss theology, missions and history!
• Find and cook new nourishing and frugal recipes.

Things I've Always Wanted to Do

• Have a large family
• Tap Dance
• Be a chef
• Go to Africa
• Run a children’s bookstore
• Start a classical school for underprivileged children
• Write children’s books
• Go on an archaeological dig
• Travel back to Jane Austen’s time give or take 100 years.