Loving Our Kids Through Transition
“Mom, I really miss my friends.” We’d moved to the Middle East a few months before, and my oldest – then 3. 8 years old – was really struggling...
Category: Change/Transition
Stewarding Yourself During Change
I feel like a farce. I am attempting to write an article on stewarding ourselves well. But as I write, my life is nothing close to an acrobat gracefully...
Awakened From Comfort
Tonight as I write, I sit before my TV version of a crackling fire, the only type of fire afforded to us who live in small and borrowed spaces. I...
Decorating Hacks for Cross-Cultural Living
Most of us have a vision in our head of how our ideal home will be decorated. Bold colors or comfortable furniture or a gallery wall. But cross-cultural living, as...
A Page From My Kids’ Playbook
I’m a horrible homemaker. Exhibit A: we’ve been in our house for longer than a year, and I still haven’t made an effort to thoughtfully hang things on the walls....
10 Things To Remember on Furlough
When we came home for furlough last spring, we came with a lot of advice, thoughts, ideas, hopes and plans. The moment of landing stateside was well...
Stopping the Stink and Finding Fresh Air
The smell of a green, old-fashioned Expo marker consumed my home office. It was all I had on hand. My husband and I had just moved back to our childhood...
When Staying Equals Transition
I do not like rollercoasters. Not at all. I’m the person who will stand at the bottom and hold everyone’s bags, glasses, etc. Granted, there are times I choose to...
The Not So Pretty Side of Leaving
I was sitting on my bright orange couches in my small apartment in Durres, Albania and broke down in tears at thought of leaving a place that I love and...
Surrendering Opportunity
I used to believe it was easier being the one who left. Maybe that was because when I first moved overseas in 2011, I did a lot of leaving. Every...
