7 weeks! That’s how long we have called Bangkok home. It feels exciting and unknown and increasingly familiar. Some days it feels like we were in Canada just yesterday and on other days, our Canadian life feels removed by years. As seems to be the case with most major life transitions, before it began we… Read More The Parental Party Line
Since arriving in Bangkok we have done a ton of exploring with our kids. We’ve checked out numerous parks and playgrounds, visited a variety of indoor play spaces, an incredible Children’s Museum and a water park. It’s been AWESOME! Bangkok has so much to offer families and we are so grateful for that. We are… Read More Trading Black Bears for Monitor Lizards
The process of leaving – it’s not an easy one. If I’m (Amber) perfectly honest, saying goodbye is something I dread, something I put off. I get extremely emotional, sometimes to a ridiculous point, and as I’m trying to tell my kids that we are going on a great adventure to Thailand, my tears just… Read More You say Goodbye, and I say Hello
Eat the watermelon, spit out the seeds. Cherry pick the good stuff. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Buy the trail mix, only eat the chocolate (or maybe that’s just Matthew). Regardless of how it’s said, we human folk have an understanding of the word discernment – take what is good and FILTER… Read More FILTER | SPONGE | FUNNEL
When it comes to transitioning to another country, life begins to feel like trying to solve an equation with multiple unknown variables. Like any good marriage, we bring different skills to the table. Amber knows how to math while Matthew finds algebra abhorrent. Despite the disparity in our mathematical prowess, there has been a lot… Read More The Variables List
You know when you spend a day doing something you love and by the end of it you have that feeling of being all together spent and yet buzzing with excitement? That’s the feeling I (Amber) had at the end of yesterday. I was flying. Yesterday I had the privilege of being part of a… Read More That Feeling of Flying
Yesterday I (Amber) and the OMEGA team had the privilege of experiencing many firsts, many new places, and new people. The part that stands out the most to me was going to visit the Heavenly Home here in Mae Sot. The Heavenly Home is run by a Burmese couple in their late 40’s who love… Read More A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
So I (Amber) find myself in Kanchanaburi province which is located on the western side of Thailand. I am here with one of my OMEGA teams (Team E!) who are helping to run a youth retreat alongside a team of Thai youth leaders from one of the Bangkok Jaisamarn churches. The setting is ideal (thick… Read More Welcome “Home”
In about an hour’s time, the Graduating Class of 2016 and the OMEGA students of 2016 will be walking across the stage to collect a piece of paper that signifies so very much. Then late tonight, though technically in the wee hours of tomorrow (2am), the OMEGA students and Amber will be airborne headed to… Read More OMEGA 2016 Goes to Thailand
TCK is a term now making regular appearances in our parenting conversations. It won’t be long now and we will be raising Third Culture Kids (TCK). Our little ones will never be fully Canadian as they grow up away from Canada, but they will never be fully Thai as they will come home to Canadian… Read More TCK’s Start at Home
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