Ask my kids and they will embarrassingly admit that I often burst into sporadic song. And one of my all time favorites is Peter Allen’s “I still call Australia home.” Well, next month, after ten years in the US, it will be again.
Yes, I’m moving!
Moving kids. Moving house. Moving state. Moving country. Moving hemisphere!
Down Under!
After a decade living and thriving and LOVING the USA, I’m heading back to my homeland, back to my ‘hometown’ of Melbourne. Closer to Grandpa’s farm, closer to cousins, closer to the beach!
Weeks after 9/11 when I moved with my husband and three very young children to Texas, I thought we’d be in the US for just a short time. Ten years (and one Texan – our 4th child) later I’ve become so at home in America that I feel like I’m leaving one home to move to another. After all, I have only lived in Melbourne briefly since heading off to live in Papua New Guinea 17 years ago.
I’m guessing you’re surprised. Well let me tell you, so am I! [Read more…]