We went home and came back home again.

I know that my other international friends understand that phrase. It makes sense despite looking like it might be a typo of some sort. In June, when school ended here in Sweden, our family traveled home to the USA for the summer break. Now, last week, before school started, we all came home to Sweden.

Where is home?

We get asked that all the time. We don't have a good answer. There's the short answer: "Wherever we are now!" Sometimes it is more like: "Wherever we are all together." All TCKs (Third Culture Kids- who grow up somewhere outside their parents' home culture/place) understand the problems with questions like "Where's home?" or "Where are you from?"

We are home in many places.
We are not really "at home" anywhere, either.
We don't really make a big deal about it one way or the other.

We do kind of miss having a place that feels like home like other people seem to have. BUT we are also very thankful for the opportunity and blessing of being where we are!

We also look on the bright side, it is easier for us to understand that we are not really "at home" on Earth, but we will truly be "at home" in Heaven. Meanwhile, we will enjoy knowing at we can find a place wherever we are now.

And we will continue to love all those we have to leave along the way. People are really what make a place home for us anyway!