Category: Uncategorized
-
Building a Life Against All Odds: Phoebe’s Story of Love, Loss, and Hope
I want to tell you about a woman called Phoebe. The woman who drives me around Monday to Friday, who always arrives early, who prays at 3am, who steals our dirty shoes so she can secretly clean them, who will come in and start mopping the floors just to be helpful and who thanks God…
-
The Cost of Living And the Cost of Changing
When you move to a new country, you expect some things to be cheaper and some things to be more expensive, but nothing prepares you for the reality until you’re standing in the supermarket doing currency math in your head and quietly gasping at the price of a chocolate bar. For anyone who doesn’t know,…
-
Somewhere Between Here and Home
It’s been just over a month since we moved to Kenya and the initial excitement has settled into something more real. The kind of real where the thrill of adventure sits right alongside the ache of homesickness, sometimes in the same day, sometimes in the same hour. What’s surprised me most is that I don’t…
-
What I Packed for Kenya: The Good, the Bad, and the Utterly Useless
Packing has never been my thing. My ADHD executive dysfunction doesn’t allow me to separate logic from emotion.. so when I started filling boxes for Kenya, the things I wanted to keep had no connection other than panic or sentimentality. We decided to rent the house out (I’ll do a whole blog on that rollercoaster),…
-
Altitude, Emotions, and the School Run from Hell
The girls came out of school that first afternoon looking like they’d just run an emotional marathon.. not crying, not even unhappy, just… spent. Their faces told a story only parents really know.. the one where excitement and overwhelm collide and turn into quiet exhaustion. Erin’s hair had half fallen out of its braid, one…
-
The Word That Hides Everything: “Fine”
What is a word you feel that too many people use? It’s strange how a single word can carry so much and yet say so little. “Fine” is the answer we give when the truth feels too messy to unpack in the middle of the school run, or in the queue at Tesco, or when…
-
The Faces Of Friendship
Some people aren’t meant to walk the whole road with you.And that’s not always a tragedy. We grow up thinking friendship is a forever thing, that the ones who made us laugh until our cheeks hurt at fifteen will still be sitting beside us in rocking chairs at eighty. And sometimes that’s true. But sometimes,…
-
Love at Long Distance: The Joys, Juggles & Lessons of Loving Across Continents
If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be in a long-distance marriage, parenting solo while my husband lived in Kenya… I probably would’ve laughed, then cried, then laughed again (because that’s my coping strategy). But here we are. He took a dream job abroad. I stayed back with our two girls, running…
-
Half a year Apart, But Closer Than Ever. A story of growth, grit, grace and an unnecessarily early alarm clock
It’s been nearly half a year since Dan left for Kenya. Nearly six months since I felt his gentle kiss on my cheek as he left for his airport pick up and nearly six months since I felt every part of me stretch between pride and heartbreak. Six months since we stepped into this strange,…
-
The big jump
This weekend has been truly magical. Between festive outings and cosy family moments, it’s reminded me just how much joy there is to be found in the season. But if I’m being honest, Christmas also brings with it a wave of overstimulation and overwhelm. It’s not just the busyness or the constant stream of to-dos.…
The Bakers Adventures 