Hi! I’m Sarah.
I’m so glad you’re here! Make yourself cozy, because I hope to be seeing a lot of you in my home.
One of the most fascinating things to me about people is that we each have our own story. Two children growing up in the same house with the same parents experience each day uniquely. How much more so when we come from different cultures and countries?
If you ask my family where we are from, you might hear a little hesitant pause as we debate how to condense a lifetime of story down into a two-second answer.
Do we say the USA? That would only be about a third true. Brazil? Same deal. Thailand? China? Asia? Do we share that our families include in-laws from Europe and South America?
Truth be told, like many expats and culturally mixed families, we could write a book just here on this “About” page.
So I’ll give you a rather simple answer for now, and then we can get to know each other more in the posts that we share.
About Me
Small-town Indiana was where I was born and raised. The feel of wind roaming across corn fields, the smell of fresh-mown summer grass, newborn lambs in the cold of February winter….this is the stuff my childhood memories call home.
My husband’s home was the beautiful city of Curitiba, Brazil–similar and different to my own childhood in ways. Playing with friends in the creek and riding the city bus to the downtown malls were just as staple in his life as rice and beans. Pastel and pao de queijo from the bakery were treasures.
How We Got Into This Intercultural Puzzle
Our jobs (mine being an English teacher and his being a soccer coach) and faith led us to a life abroad in Asia, which is where we met and fell in love. We then made our home in Thailand for four years before moving on to another, long journey across the globe.
Together, we are making a home for our dual-citizen children in countries to which none of us are native. And as we travel, we carry with us pieces of our childhood hometowns and pieces of each new place where we live.
It’s quite the puzzle.
And it makes our family identity–our “home”–all the more important to us.
Join us on this journey of making my home and your home into our home.
What You Will Find Here on Our Blog
Here, in our online home, we share with you
- recipes from our home countries, families, and the places where we travel
- tips for (and reflections on) raising children from our own multicultural and bilingual experience
- literacy ideas and activities
- resources to nurture your family
- how-to’s for making a house into a home, no matter where you go
- hacks for apartment life and international travel
- and just about anything having to do with family and relationships.
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We are so glad you’re here! And we hope to see a lot of you in our home.
A Few Fun Facts About Me
I have always lived and breathed the written page. My family lived across the street from our small-town library, and as a six-year-old I gifted some of my handmade books (written on scrap paper) to the library shelves.
I am the fifth of eleven children–five girls and six boys…and that wasn’t counting the sheep.
Homeschooling was part of my childhood, and I love getting to share this educational bonding experience with my own kiddos.
I have lived in four different countries in the past ten years, and my eldest child boarded more than 20 airplanes before he was two-and-a-half.
Music is my comfort food. I begged my parents to buy a violin for me when I was three years old, finally got one when I was six, and have been playing for going on twenty-something years now.