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Chicken Bottoms Can’t Steal My Joy

Chicken Bottoms Can’t Steal My Joy

I should have known better. I’m not a newbie at this. Last week a friend offered to get me some fresh butchered chickens at the market since we’d just got back in town. I’d never been to the market here in town and plus I knew I’d get the more expensive price anyway. The chicken […]
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Safety pins

Safety pins

About 2 months ago I finally broke down and bought a pack of safety pins. That’s how I knew we’d been back in the States a long time. We’d been here long enough to have clothes to adjust, splinters to remove, and stuff to attach to other things. We’d had enough times where we really […]
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Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

So I was looking back on my phone for some pictures and realized that I’ve hardly taken any photos for the past month or so as we’ve been getting ready for Taliabo. As random as these photos are, that’s exactly how fragmented our brains feel right now. These photos don’t include water shortages, food poisoning, […]
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Where is home?

Where is home?

Parenting has been a hoot lately. My almost 4-year-old argues with me about most things. He wants to change the clock to make snack time sooner. He argues that Chewbacca probably doesn’t have to flush, so why should he? And why can’t he just eat fried tempeh or jam sandwiches for every meal? I don’t […]
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The Waiting Game

The Waiting Game

So when we “signed up” to live overseas, I certainly had expectations of what I would have to give up. I agreed to eat weird foods, wear different clothes, live in less than ideal conditions at times, sweat in the tropical heat, and get sick with weird diseases. What I didn’t expect was all of […]
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Bigger picture

Bigger picture

If this isn’t a picture of God’s goodness, God’s faithfulness, and His work among the nations, I don’t know what is. These are the men and women who just finished a part of the training program here. They represent what God is doing here as well as what He plans to do. They are from […]
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A Sink

A Sink

Everything is about perspective. If we had arrived and our apartment had been set up with an outdoor sink, I probably would have complained or at least bemoaned going in and out to wash my hands. I’d never considered an indoor sink a luxury, but since our setup had neither, those 3 pink buckets you […]
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Raft-building

Raft-building

I probably couldn’t build an actual raft to save my life. Not one that would actually float. But, as the mom of a third culture kid, I need to be able to build rafts quite often, albeit not a sea-worthy vessel, but a mental one. I need to be able to build Finn a mental/emotional […]
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From this side of the ocean

From this side of the ocean

Right now, we’re stateside. It’s a very different world than the one we left 5 months ago. We were radically different people when we arrived on these shores and we’ve continued to change after spending time here. I’m glad I’m not the same person I was 5 months ago. I was fragile and felt as […]
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Making Memories

Making Memories

For the roughly 3 1/2 years we lived in Asia Pacific, we were newbies. Or at least, that’s how it felt. Upon our return to the US, we’ve felt the same way, albeit to a lesser degree. I can speak English and navigate most cultural things here, but I still feel lost a bit. Where […]
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