"Someday we will both get a place of our own. And we will plant our gardens and eat from it!" She said, with stars in her eyes - a glimmer of the hope we both held onto. We were chatting as our littles played on the playground after church one morning. Both in a very similar place of being nomads, living with other people after having lived out of suitcases and boxes. "Yesssss. I want to have a house of our own. I want to plant a garden. It's going to happen. I'm claiming it.

Aussies like to shorten their words. A lot. A little glimpse into our first few months of learning to speak Australian.

I have recently had an epiphany of sorts. A most unexpected one. But it's funny how God speaks sometimes. I've realized just how close I am to being a Mandrake (or Mandragora). If you're not a Harry Potter fan, the Mandrake is a plant with a root that looks like a human. I don't see myself as that ugly. It's more about the properties of the Mandrake. :) In their second year at Hogwarts, Harry and the crew learn about Mandrakes during their Herbology class with Professor Spro

{Alternately Titled: Caught in the In-Between}  I knew it would be hard.  But I never anticipated how hard it would be.  It's not widely