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, […]
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 […]
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?” […]
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 […]
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