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?” […]
Today is a month until ‘wheels up’ as we’re calling it. Arthur is still flat out trying to finish things at TAFES and working out what he will need to let go of, but I stopped my commitments weeks ago, in order to mental load this transition for our family […]
In conjunction with the other resources I’ve put together for TCKs, our calendar, our farewells, our transition journals, and our practice of lament, we are using some activities from Amy Young’s book Looming Transitions: Twenty-Two Activities for Families in Transition as we prep for our repatriation to Australia. It’s a […]
A while back, as we began to think about how to prep for our big move, Arthur and I went to a Missions Interlink online seminar on helping TCKs enter Australia. One of the things they recommended was transition journals, so we duly went out and bought some. The journals […]
As we prep for our big move, we have just returned from a 10 day trip around Tanzania. We called it our ‘farewell tour’. Though we will have farewells in Dar, our life in Tanzania has been broader than that and we needed to say goodbye to people and places […]
We are 6 weeks out from our repatriation to Australia. It’s not going home, it’s leaving home. As Callum said to me, “I don’t want to leave my home!” It’s rough on him – he’s 7 and it’s been almost 4 years since our last home assignment, so he doesn’t […]
I am floating on my back in the ocean. (You can tell this is a dream, because in real life I’m a pretty poor swimmer.) I close my eyes for a few minutes, and when I wake up, the current has carried me somewhere I do not recognise. The shore […]
Meet Jesus at uni 