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 […]
This is not a whinge! It’s an attempt to put some flesh on “culture shock” and what it means to lose competence in your own culture. Here’s how it looked on one morning of our first week ‘home’ in Australia. (The tenses are all over the place – because that’s […]
One evening last week as we prayed at bedtime, Elliot said to me, “I think ‘We’re all in this together’ should be the theme song for this transition.” The next morning as Callum snuggled into bed with me, he whispered, “What about ‘Livin’ on a prayer’ for the transition, Mama?” […]
Meet Jesus at uni 