In Germany, the rooster crows a whole lot more than three times. He's been going all morning, since the sun first shimmied through our curtain and I laid curled up on our son's makeshift bed (he was in mine, obviously). We sleep with our balcony door all the way open...
Read moreThe only move I'm making
Apparently, every five years or so, nearly everyone you know will be buying or selling houses. We hear from people with mortgages that the market is good for this now and we trust them, because we don't know any different, never having bought or sold a piece of property apart from...
Read moreWhat I'm Into {July 2015 edition}
We're enjoying a full house as a of late, a dozen Wisconsin team members joining Matt for a week of serving, praying and kids-clubbing, and some KC friends joining me around the breakfast table every morning (above photo courtesy of one such guest)...
Read moreThe worst thing ever, or how I intend to survive an elimination diet
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2015 may be the year of "submit," but it's also the year of migraines, tiredness, anxiety and eczema. I keep trying to convince myself it must be "something in the water" or "allergy season" or "this bag of tortilla chips just fell in my lap." Just when I thought I'd established a good rhythm in one area of my life, my health is dancing to an entirely different (and altogether funky) beat.
So it is with an extreme amount of regret that I inform you that I have begun an elimination diet. Clearly there is only one way this can go and that is with an eventual mental breakdown. I can't decide on a can of diced tomatoes at the grocery store, let alone...
Read moreWhen a TCK graduates
I am the mother of three third culture kids*. And I received permission from the eldest to tell this story. In the last seven years, Jack has attended four different primary schools in three towns in two countries, skipped the first grade, relearned math, switched from...
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