The same friend who gave us the welcome to be a half person also gave me the best piece of marriage advice I’ve received. She told me, “I’ve only had one husband but I’ve been married to 6 or 7 different men.” She meant that her (one) husband had changed […]
We’re told it takes 1 year for every 3 years you’ve been away to feel settled. The early years of cross-cultural service feel like living as half a person. Eventually, you take the bits you have left over of your original culture and the bits you’ve accumulated from your new […]
Our children tell me they’re too old for dragon stories now. They have a point: they now see through them and can easily identify what I’m trying to teach them and why. I suspect our days of dragon stories are numbered but for now I insist it’s just a story, […]
We hit 3 months in Australia last week. If it takes us 1 year for every 3 we were away to feel settled (and that is the advice we’ve received!) we are 1/12 of the way. No doubt there will be more ups and downs but at the moment we’re […]
Today is 8 weeks since we landed in Australia. 8 weeks is special because, in our experience, it’s when the (metaphorical) sun comes out. Red Twin used to say, with her psychologist hat on, that any big change takes about 6-8 weeks to get used to. During that 6-8 weeks […]
A few weeks ago when Callum was having trouble getting used to wearing shoes to school, I told him this Callum the Dragon story… Once upon a time there was a little dragon called Callum. He had a big brother named Elliot the dragon and there was Dadda dragon and […]
Tomorrow we will have been in Australia for 2 weeks. My goal on several days has been to get to the end of the day without crying. I have not been very successful. My tears are not so much homesickness as they are the result of overwhelm. But today I […]
Meet Jesus at uni 