We’re learning as we go and we’d love to share some of what we’ve learned.
I (Matthew) shared 50 pictures on Facebook yesterday. It was down to 49 and minus a few tags within hours of being posted. The pictures are a memory trip and though I did not pick the worst-of-the-worst, the style choices represented are sometimes humbling. I was most merciless to myself. Besides laughs, of which there… Read More Behind-the-Scenes is Everyday Life
Having a little human stresses us out sometimes – especially when he fails to realize our daily To Do List includes more than helping him organize toys for the chewing. There are things that need doing that are in direct competition with him for our undivided attention. Truly, dinner is not about to cook itself… Read More A Big Thought from our Little Man
We know our neighbours. We intentionally try to be a part of our community (even in simple ways such as buying our milk from the same corner store). We ask ourselves how our faith values are embodied in our everyday lives. We speak honestly about why we live the life we do. Of course we… Read More Billable Hours
We doubt the power of presence and we shouldn’t. Somewhere along the way, being there for someone became less about being there and more about saying the perfect phrase, buying the perfect Hallmark sentiment, or doing the perfect action. The intentions may be good, but sometimes it smacks of a second-rate substitute for being there… Read More This is Not a Hallmark Moment
“Some things you just have to experience” is one of the most unsatisfying answers in the history of sub-par responses and yet it is true. There are life experiences that are nearly impossible to convey in words to those who have yet to share that experience. It’s quite an extensive list actually: the haunting (in… Read More What’s with the Parenting References?
“I know where you live” is never a statement you want to hear while sitting in a stranger’s car, but we get it semi-regularly. In a flat country subject to the brisk Baltic blast where cab fare is more than affordable, taxis are a lovely alternative on cold Polish days. Not being on any tourist… Read More City Mouse / Medium-Sized Industrial Town Mouse
There are very few true parenting experts in the world. Before you disagree or feel the need to defend your vast wealth of parenting knowledge, let’s look at this. Most people share from their own experience, and even if their experience is far greater than ours, it is based on their own family. That makes… Read More The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Ferry and Parenting Experts
“What level of uncertainty can you handle in your lives?” is not the question you want to be asked when sitting down to a meeting regarding your future, but there we sat confronted by the unknown in the form of a question. In our experience, whenever we open the door of transition just to survey… Read More When Peace Kicks you in the Face and Makes no Apologies
Application forms, bank records, medical checks, supporting documents, multiple trips to the consulate, letters of invitation and passport-sized photographs; if you’ve ever applied for something more than a tourist visa than you know what we’re talking about. Getting permission to move to a country feels like a full-time job, but it gives you more than… Read More The Immigration Family
Character Arc, according to the wisdom well that is Wikipedia, is the status of the character as it unfolds throughout the storyline. Characters begin the story with a certain viewpoint and, through events in the story, that viewpoint changes. If you were to consider your life as a storyline, with a distinct beginning, middle and… Read More It’s about Character Arc
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