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: Parenting
The Mystery Box and Resurfaced Wisdom
A little over two years ago as we prepared to move back to Texas, we were packing and purging stuff from a decade’s worth of our life in China....
The Enneagram and Me
The room was dark when I scooped up the scattered shoes and sprinkled them into the bench by the back door. The host of the podcast I was listening to...
Hunting For Fun
For several months after moving to Cambodia’s noisy, crowded capital city, life in our third-floor apartment felt like a tile and cement prison. Factor in two little ones, new culture,...
But What’s So Different about Being an Expat Family, Anyway?
My twins are seniors and our conversations have naturally turned toward university choices. For my family, of course, that includes conversations about America and culture, home and upbringing. We moved...
Confessions of a Black Sheep
If I could go back in time to the moment I arrived on the field with my first baby in tow, I would pull myself aside and give this piece...
For the Least of These
I have been neglecting my kids. I have four children and they are wonderful and perfect. I cook for them, school them and make sure that they...
That Time Paul Talked About Breastfeeding
My husband and I worked in local church ministry for over ten years before moving abroad to serve for the last five and a half. There’s something I want you...
Another Kind of Cost
It’s been an emotional day today. A mixture of excitement for the future while at the same time loss and grief for what that future implies. Twenty-five years ago, we...
How Will Our Children Adapt?
Our questions breeze right in through the open windows of our minds: fearful reactions can grip us with chilled anxiety, while sun-kissed, hope-filled responses enable us to envision a bright...
