One of the wonderful aspects of our travels is witnessing how the churches and families we visit reach out to strangers in their communities. From food banks to foreign language services to dinners and special …
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The best business card we have ever seen was for Pastor Jeff Smith in Petaluma. It reads: Jeff Smith: pastor, honeybee keeper, police chaplain I think it should also say “married to an amazing cook …
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You can imagine that The Travel Bags children have heard Stephen Bautista’s songs a time or two or two hundred. As much as they l-o-v-e Daddy’s music, they were a bit bummed when the CD …
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Our girls sing a song called Pizza Angel, taught to them by the endearing (but potentially annoying in large doses) Larry the Cucumber of Veggie Tales fame. It goes like this: Pizza Angel, please come …
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We were ecstatic to be camping in an orange grove in California not too far out from Bakersfield. Doesn’t Miss Jazz Hands on the right look ecstatic?! The camp host said we could pick as …
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This is the perfect song for our leap of faith as The Travel Bags prepare to hit the road again for the Stephen Bautista Music mega-tour.
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Happy birthday, Emily! Every year I insist that she is three, but, can you believe it, she’s nine! She won’t even let me pretend she’s three, the stinker. She was a great sport and spent …
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How to shave 30 minutes or more off your morning and evening routines: Before After
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Steve grew up in the Air Force. There’s just something about a plane that gives him that little boy on Christmas morning feeling. So a stop at the military fighter jet museum was not altogether …
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There are six girls and only one boy among The Travel Bags children. Told ya! Six girls and one boy. And sometimes our boy does boy things, like climbing high. Very, very high. And then …
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