dripping with passion

after nearly twelve years (!!) of "dripping with passion," i've moved my blogging over to a different little spot on the internet. this blog has been a really valued and really valuable part of my life throughout all those years. i'm so glad i have pictures and thoughts and memories documented and organized. i've made meaningful connections with people all over the world and from so many different walks of life. i've been pushed to think more deeply from comments and conversations here. i've had the opportunity to reflect on what and how i should share and that has been really enriching in a lot of ways. i've been touched by expressions of gratitude and inspiration and encouragement. i love that i've been able to share and learn here. and so, i will continue blogging - i'll keep maintaining a family record, and sharing thoughts and beauty that i try to capture. i have zero interest in growing a following or monetizing or driving more traf

hi!  this break from blogging has been an interesting experience. the way my photos and thoughts have been piling up, disorganized and unshared, makes me feel anxious. arranging memories and reflections into blog posts helps my mind to un-jumble and my perspective to settle - i miss that exercise.  the past six weeks or so have just been so wild and i haven't been able to devote time to work on a new system for blogging. days and weeks have been full and whipping past. some travel adventures ended up stacked right together - first a long weekend in holland, then a week in dominican republic, then a trip to disneyland and paris right after having ian's parents in town for a visit. it has been amazing ... and also a bit exhausting all in a row! i have been sorting through some kind of concerning health issues and have been trying to not let my spirit break too much with some significant knee issues in my marathon training. work has been wild in new ways for ian, ther

because of some changes with how blogger  works as a blogging platform, i won't be posting here for a while. i need to figure out a new way to do this because blogger  won't allow me to format blog posts in the way that i want to (to preserve layout and photo quality). i will likely be switching to wordpress , and with that probably doing the blog "rebrand" i've been meaning to do for ages. i'm frustrated by this and also hate the feeling of getting so behind in organising my photos and thoughts! while i sort it all out, i'll continue to post a bit on instagram ,  if you want to keep following along with our family's adventures. if there's anyone out there with blogger/wordpress,  html, or graphic design expertise that they want to share, shoot me an email! {charityeyre@gmail}

    here's ten thoughts that i didn't quite  get around to writing out and publishing yesterday. and a crazy amount of pictures of magnolia trees around london, because i just can't get enough. a couple of days ago on a walk home, moses shouted, "mommy! there's a magnolia tree! you love  magnolia trees!" :) one. thanks for the comments back on this post when i asked for thoughts about sharing details about my children online. i really appreciated the different perspectives shared, and i think it's a really interesting discussion. ian and i will continually be carefully considering what is best for our family, all things considered. the internet has changed so much about human life ... it's crazy.   moses loves going to the grocery store, riding in the cart, and then playing in the little green recycling truck toy they have there. this week gabriel came inside the truck for the first time, while mo ate a snack of his absolute favourite food - m

Hey, it's Ian. I’ve never written on here before, and I have no clue about any of the rules of blogging or writing - I’m a numbers guy. But Charity mentioned one of the questions she gets asked most is how we finance our vacations with points and get sweet deals. When it comes to trip planning, that's my domain. So I'm writing a guest post. To cut to the chase, the primary answer to how we get points and deals for travel is: credit cards. Sure, on a lot of credit cards you get one “point” (for example: airline mile, hotel point, transferable "ultimate rewards" point, etc) for every dollar you spend with the credit card. And in some categories for some cards (like gas, restaurants, etc) you get 2, 3 or even 10 times points for every dollar you spend. But the real mass of our point collection has come from credit card sign up bonuses . With most credit cards, there is a large number of points awarded when you meet a minimum spending requirement with