Changing Diapers, Travel and Christian Ministry
What happens to a woman’s calling when ministry takes her husband away from home? “Having gone through bible college and ministry training…I don’t remember anyone telling me about being left behind. How my husband might travel without me while I stayed at home with kids and what that would mean for me. I wanted to…
Read More Parents Who Work Away
Learning to Make Distance Work: What Families Across Sectors Can Teach Us Different industries have different cultures, working patterns, risks and resources. There are organisations doing excellent work to support employees and families in particular sectors, and some sectors have developed genuinely valuable resources over many years. Because the thing I am interested in isn't the sector. It is what happens to a family when work repeatedly takes one parent away from home. And how do families who have been doing this for years make it work?
Read More I Hate When My Husband Travels for Work
Do you hate it when your husband travels for work? Not because you don’t love him. Not because you don’t support his career. Not because you don’t understand why he has to go. You hate what it does to your family. You hate the chaos when he packs, the chaos when he comes back. You…
Read More The Space Between Distance and Connection: When Work Takes a Parent Away
For many years, I didn’t have the words to describe the life we were living. We weren’t a military family. We weren’t divorced. We weren’t in a traditional long-distance relationship. Yet for weeks, sometimes months at a time, my husband and I were parenting from different countries while trying to hold family life together. There…
Read More How to Find Peace When Your Husband Travels for Work
Does your husband travel and is always gone for work? Do you feel exhausted? You may not say it out loud. It may not even be at the surface of your consciousness. But deep down, you feel it. You know that you are exhausted and that you are getting to the end of your strength. Here are three must-have strategies every home-based mum needs.
Read More Should We Take an Unaccompanied Tour? How Foreign Service Families Decide
Choosing to take an unaccompanied tour needs careful consideration. This article encourages you to think about more than the assignment itself.
Read More Split location families can build a strong unit
Families where one partner is away a lot for work or is living and working in another country for long periods don't often realise they are under more pressure than families who don't have this lifestyle.
However, I truly believe that split location families can build a strong unit, be a happy family with happy individuals even when living apart. I have witnessed families who are living this reality.