on the edge of ordinary

The dominant theme in my week has been transition planning at work. Yes, I know, I've been thinking about this for months, and rightly s...

Tomorrow our 19 y.o. starts on a journey that we know little about: getting a Japanese driver's licence from scratch. He's taking a ...

Here's an excellent 15-minute video by a TCK that was originally a TED talk. It fits so well with my blog's theme of "on the ed...

Our eldest son mentioned to me that he's had some interesting reactions to people in Australia finding out where he grew up. Mostly peop...

Our eldest son's church has an annual bush dance, that's where he spent last Saturday night. I never thought about it being an Aus...

After our recent camping trip we drove back to David's sister's place for a few more days. As we drove in the front gate we said, ...

This morning I'm blogging from the airport. Again! I'm in shock, actually. I've never gotten to a boarding gate for an internati...

I found one of our younger two boys making this table the other day. He's processing what home assignment this year means in his life. I...

"Making it up as you go." Yep, that's what we're doing! Often parenting as a missionary feels like you are all alone ...

It's a relief to finally be sitting at my desk during a work day with (almost) everyone gone from the house and with energy to work. It...

We had an interesting conversation at lunch today. Someone mentioned that there were a large number of new kids in sixth grade. One boy comm...

The thing that has been looming for the last few years is getting closer all the time: the day our eldest moves to Australia. I feel like we...

The current place we call home. We don't really talk about "going home" to Australia anymore. It certainly doesn't repre...

I had a "penny drop" moment this morning. I've been putting together our monthly news/prayer letter and the theme that's ...

You might know that I like to read to the family after dinner. I generally read fiction, but a few times I've read non-fiction. Almost a...

I'm sorry to my non-Aussie readers today. You've probably never heard of the movie The Castle . It is an iconic Australian movie, a ...