Fulness of Life

This morning, we decided to fulfill Marie’s biggest wish since she got here: go swimming. Unfortunately, after about a 10 minute walk to the pool, we found out that it was closed. It turns out that many shops, restaurants, and other facilities close on Mondays. And some just close whenever they want to – this [...]

I just wanted to keep everyone up to date on what we’ve been doing the past four days since we arrived in Costa Rica. We’re in the perfect location for exploring the town. We’re in walking distance of everything, and we have been walking a lot!
It actually gets fairly hot during the day here, and [...]

Well, we’re finally here! We’re in Costa Rica, and it’s warm and beautiful! I made a little video of our trip over, which you can watch below. Until then, here’s a little summary of our trip so far:
The Flight
We flew out of Salt Lake City to JFK at 11:30pm. We flew stand-by on Jet Blue, [...]

What do you take with you when moving abroad? If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that we got rid of most of our stuff a few months ago. And we whittled down even further last week. The past two days, we’ve been packing and making more decisions about what to [...]

I like to read books that inspire me to be a better person and help me understand life from a different perspective. And although I haven’t spent a lot of time reading this year, the books I have read have made a profound difference in my life and perspective.
Lately, I’ve tried to read more, and [...]

Tonight, Marie gave the family prayer, and in that sweet voice of hers, expressed her concern for Santa’s welfare. I wish we would have recorded it. But I’ve tried to reconstruct it from memory, below. It went something like this.

Dear Heavenly Father,

We’re thankful for this good day. Please help us have the Spirit to be with us. Please bless Santa to be safe when he comes to give us presents. Help him be safe when he [...]

We at the Pearce household definitely prefer warm weather. Temperatures here in Salt Lake City lately have been between 20-40 degrees Fahrenheit. Emily does everything she can to get out of wearing a coat, even in below freezing temperatures. Our skin gets dry and cracked, and in this season it seems that sicknesses abound.
Still, it’s [...]

Our family was recently interviewed by Roadschooling Examiner about our upcoming move to Costa Rica and how we plan to educate our children while “on the road.” The article was actually posted over a month ago, but I didn’t get the link until today.
Click here to check out our interview
We were asked some great questions [...]

Because of our move abroad, this week will be my last week singing with the Oratorio Society of Utah, a 94-year-old choral organization that performs Handel’s Messiah every year, as well as other choral masterworks.
I have been an assistant director of this choir since 2004, during which time we have sung Handel’s “Messiah”, Haydn’s “Creation”, [...]

We finally picked a date to make the move abroad. We’ll be leaving Salt Lake City for Costa Rica on January 6th, 2010! We have some Jet Blue buddy passes we’ll be using, and we hope there won’t be a problem using buddy passes for the “required” return ticket as well.
We’re going to start out [...]