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Building a Life Against All Odds: Phoebe’s Story of Love, Loss, and Hope
I want to tell you about a woman called Phoebe. The woman who drives me around Monday to Friday, who always arrives early, who prays at 3am, who steals our dirty shoes so she can secretly clean them, who will come in and start mopping the floors just to be helpful and who thanks God…
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The Cost of Living And the Cost of Changing
When you move to a new country, you expect some things to be cheaper and some things to be more expensive, but nothing prepares you for the reality until you’re standing in the supermarket doing currency math in your head and quietly gasping at the price of a chocolate bar. For anyone who doesn’t know,…
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Somewhere Between Here and Home
It’s been just over a month since we moved to Kenya and the initial excitement has settled into something more real. The kind of real where the thrill of adventure sits right alongside the ache of homesickness, sometimes in the same day, sometimes in the same hour. What’s surprised me most is that I don’t…
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Finding Normal in the Not-So-Normal
It’s been a little over a week since my last post, and honestly, I don’t even know where to start. Some days it feels like we’ve been here forever; other days, like we only just landed and are still fumbling around trying to find our feet (and the nearest decent loaf of bread). I’ve been…
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What I Packed for Kenya: The Good, the Bad, and the Utterly Useless
Packing has never been my thing. My ADHD executive dysfunction doesn’t allow me to separate logic from emotion.. so when I started filling boxes for Kenya, the things I wanted to keep had no connection other than panic or sentimentality. We decided to rent the house out (I’ll do a whole blog on that rollercoaster),…
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Altitude, Emotions, and the School Run from Hell
The girls came out of school that first afternoon looking like they’d just run an emotional marathon.. not crying, not even unhappy, just… spent. Their faces told a story only parents really know.. the one where excitement and overwhelm collide and turn into quiet exhaustion. Erin’s hair had half fallen out of its braid, one…
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First Day of School in Kenya 🇰🇪✨
Well… we did it. The girls had their first day of school in Kenya today and what a day it’s been. We chose their school for many reasons, but the biggest one was that we could walk there.. which is actually quite rare here. Most schools are further out, in more remote areas or right in the city, where…
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The Word That Hides Everything: “Fine”
What is a word you feel that too many people use? It’s strange how a single word can carry so much and yet say so little. “Fine” is the answer we give when the truth feels too messy to unpack in the middle of the school run, or in the queue at Tesco, or when…
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The Faces Of Friendship
Some people aren’t meant to walk the whole road with you.And that’s not always a tragedy. We grow up thinking friendship is a forever thing, that the ones who made us laugh until our cheeks hurt at fifteen will still be sitting beside us in rocking chairs at eighty. And sometimes that’s true. But sometimes,…
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An Open Letter to the People Pleaser
Dear People Pleaser, I see you.. The part of me that cares so deeply for others that it feels like a constant balancing act between wanting to be heard and wanting to be liked. You don’t avoid conflict because you’re afraid of confrontation; instead, you often respond with a rawness and immediacy that can feel…
The Bakers Adventures
Adventure is out there!
The Bakers Adventures 