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  1. I Choose My Kids Over Friends and Me-Time

    5/3/12 9:00am by carrien
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    i choose to be here

    A friend is having a fabulous 40th birthday getaway in a few months. It involves a short flight and a drive and some fabulous scenery and spa and an overnight stay at a great house. Guests are making their plans for flying in from all over the place and it looks like a really good time. I'll be sending my regrets. It's not the money, or the schedule, or even childcare, really, that is keeping me away. Those things can be worked out. It's this person right here. He has spent every night of his short 20 months firmly tucked in against my side and nursing when he wakes before drifting off to sleep again.  Read more >

  2. I'm Not Too Cool to Beg, Not For Thai Orphans

    9/7/11 7:29pm by carrien
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    Thai orphan, by Aaron Blue

    I used to try and be cool. It wasn't even a conscious thing but I had this ingrained habit of being non-committal about things. Don't let people know you care. Better yet, don't care at all. Keep your hand close. Smile only occasionally. Be hard to impress. I don't know why. I have many, many guesses. But I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about when it changed for me.  Read more >

  3. Blogher 11 - Managing Expectations and the Ford Family Party

    8/8/11 9:34am by carrien
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    Blogher 11 did an amazing job of making me feel special. From sponsors and vendors going out of their way to get to know me to develop a relationship and uniformed servers handing out cute little hor d'oeuvres on trays at every corner as we walked through the convention center, to over the top parties every night, to extremely thoughtful giveaway packages, everything about this conference combined to make us blogging women feel at home, and cared for and respected.  Read more >

  4. An Interview with Rachel Devenish Ford, author of The Eve Tree

    6/21/11 12:34pm by carrien
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    Rachel Devenish Ford

    There is a gentle fragility about Rachel, or Rae as most people call her. She is vulnerable in the strongest way possible, wearing her heart on her sleeve. We've known each other since we were single, she was 18, I was 20, and we traveled the west coast of Canada and the US in a giant 16 passenger van with 4 other girls.  Read more >

  5. Teaching Our Family to Survive in a Thai Orphanage

    5/26/11 8:05am by carrien
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    White man with Thai orphan

    I can see it in the way my husband eyes the Girl as she grabs her third helping of chicken. When I throw him a questioning glance he says, "A chicken half this size would be all the meat for dinner for all 28 kids at the orphanage."  Read more >

Carrien Blue

Full Name
Carrien Blue
Member Since
July 2007
About Me: 
Wife of one, mom of 4, whom I home school,CFO, Secretary and founding board member of The Charis Project, a non-profit caring for refugee communities and children at risk in northern Thailand and working to create a replicable model for financially self-sustaining orphanages. I write about parenting, faith, food, and what we can do to change the plight of children all over the world.
Employers: 
There are 4 of them and they are bossy. They wake me up at all hours with their unreasonable demands and insist that I feed them and wipe their bums. I am self-employed I suppose. I volunteer at The Charis Project
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