For When You’re Trying to Adjust + Plus New Community Builders!
My family and I are in a season of major adjustment. June, July and August were all about uprooting, traveling, and change. Now we’re midway through September, and the proverbial dust is beginning to settle. Now is the time we’re supposed to be adjusting and finding our new normal. Or whatever normal looks like when […]
The Turning Point For Me
When we moved overseas, I thought the adjustment would be easy. I had already lived in our host country for three months as a single woman, so I knew what I was getting into. (Ha!) Of course I knew that going back married with a 3-month-old baby would be different. But still, I could quickly […]
Somewhere in the Midst of the Insanity
“Oh, look! A foreign child!” a lady says to her three year old daughter as I push the stroller into the grocery store, “What should we say to the foreign child?” “You should say ‘Nihao’” I reply, “we speak Chinese, too” I bluntly inform her in Mandarin, effectively ending the conversation. Ugh! What is wrong […]