8 ways to flourish as you re-entry from expat life

It’s been eighteen months already since we moved from Luxembourg to the UK. When we moved here, it had been eight years since I left as a fresh-faced graduate, and I came home with a foreign husband, a toddler, and a baby quickly expanding inside me. There were a lot of things to adjust to,…

The Many Levels of “Settling In”

I get asked the question, “have you settled in?” a lot, and trying to answer it has caused me to realise there are multiple levels of settling, like some old style super mario computer game. So just for fun, I tried to figure out what level I have made it to…   Level One: You unpack…

Finding the Magic in Moving.

Rasmus started his new job today. And so today marked the start of a new season for us. The past year has been one of flexible schedules and fulltime parenting together and asking so many questions and leaning into the unknown. And now a part of that unknown is over. He has a job he’s…

be family to your friends

Our Easter Feast – friends of seven nationalities who have become family… I’ve lived outside of my home country for the last seven and a half years. And before that there was also a gap year overseas and a study abroad year. So I’m getting used to being away from everything British. (Also the fact…

Finding Meaning Where I Am

“There aren’t any needs here.” That’s what we heard over and over when we moved to Luxembourg. Regularly hitting the top three richest nations in the world (by GDP), Luxembourg is a beautiful and pristine little country, snuggled between Belgium, France and Germany. From first impressions, it certainly looks like there is not much wrong…