Questions, Challenges and Blessings
Talking about mothering Third Culture Kids is a bit like talking about the water in a river: it’s always in motion and no two rivers (or even two kids in the same family) are the same. So lets throw some of the variables on the table: where you deliver, where you live, how isolated you […]
6 Doubts of Life Overseas
Can I ask a very real and honest question here today? Can I ask it because I think it needs to be asked for my life and yours? Can I ask it here in this is a safe place, a place where we understand each other’s hearts? I wouldn’t ask it with just anyone, but […]
More Than an Experience
I have now lived equal parts of my life in China and the United States. Twelve years each. For me, this marks a strange point in my life – I should be calling Tennessee home. Strange, because each time I think about it, this deep longing rises up and yells, “How dare you betray home […]
To Moms of TCKs and Those Who Love Them
Oh, I’ve had my doubts. Not just moments of “I wonder if…” kind of doubts, but the wrestling-with-God “what am I doing to my children” kind of doubts. In our first year in this country, a teammate quoted Lottie Moon, “If I had a thousand lives, I’d give them all for China.” I wanted to […]