tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post7911259891878337055..comments2024-03-18T07:20:02.488-07:00Comments on Swiss Lark: The Swiss Onion Trick, or Thoughts on Integration and RepatriationLindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-90074995203976348022017-02-24T21:27:22.607-08:002017-02-24T21:27:22.607-08:00Oh, good luck with your repatriation, Laura! It...Oh, good luck with your repatriation, Laura! It's a long and confusing process. For the longest time I could only describe it as feeling unmoored and adrift. I still feel that way, but less. It takes time. Focus on the positive. It sounds silly, but it really does help! Thank you so much for commenting!!! And have you joined the I am a Triangle group? I wrote all about it here: http://www.swisslark.com/2016/04/i-am-triangle-thoughts-on-repatriation.html xoxoxoxoLindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-22572390079633875002017-02-24T21:23:14.002-08:002017-02-24T21:23:14.002-08:00Feeling unsettled is the same whether abroad or he...Feeling unsettled is the same whether abroad or here and I'm so glad you brought that up. It never feels good to have the sense that something is temporary. I really want to go all in and settle and feel like we can invest in "real furniture" and put time and money and love into building something just right. Is that what you crave, too? It's impossible for me when I think we might be leaving. It really is hard to live like that! Total conundrum, indeed! xxLindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-18937863103237010602017-02-24T21:21:08.519-08:002017-02-24T21:21:08.519-08:00The Homeopathy!!! I have loads of Globuli from Wel...The Homeopathy!!! I have loads of Globuli from Weleda still and I SWEAR by the Omida Hustensirup. Incredible. (But I also loved going to France and buying real medicine and today in Target I made a mental list of what I would buy in bulk to take with us if we were to go back because saline solution can't always cut it). <br /><br />It's so nice to know you can relate to what I'm saying here. And I love your description of everything pouring down on me. I completely felt it. Those pangs of nostalgia hit hard and deep. Sigh.Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836394671525240199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-10524746027858693532017-02-24T15:09:48.942-08:002017-02-24T15:09:48.942-08:00I stumbled upon this blog recently and really reso...I stumbled upon this blog recently and really resonate with what you've posted about repatriation. My family of four just returned to the US after five years in Canada. Both my kids were born there (oldest named Theo actually!) and both my husband and I really connected with the culture in so many ways. We moved back for similar reasons to what you described and did miss home while up there... Though now that we're back in the US, I miss Canada and am grieving for our life there! Nothing is ever perfect and there is always something/someone to miss, no matter where we are. Repatriation has really driven that point home for me. Overall I'm glad we are in the US (despite Donald Trump) but we will probably end up abroad again someday!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17761545528759582919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-65205872082810596122017-02-24T07:54:40.556-08:002017-02-24T07:54:40.556-08:00This isn't the same, but I also always have a ...This isn't the same, but I also always have a weird unsettled feeling from living on opposite sides of the country. My family is on one side, my extended family on the other, and we're now somewhere in between. I love where I live but don't feel quite settled, as though there will always be a move on the horizon (and there may be). Not sure if thats just the way it will always be or whether I should strive to somehow resolve it. Advances in travel, I tell ya! Creates a whole new conundrum for relationships/community. ~K Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556494314801577420.post-38392725750449795832017-02-24T04:58:02.481-08:002017-02-24T04:58:02.481-08:00Ha! Yes. The onions. That and homeopathy, which ha...Ha! Yes. The onions. That and homeopathy, which has no basis in science whatsoever. But I have my little bag full of Weleda bottles and my son was born at the Steiner birth house. Ha! <br /><br />I too struggled so much living abroad after the birth of my son in Switzerland. With my two year old it felt like a big adventure, then my son came and I was like--holy crap, these kids won't identify as being American at all. I had a really hard time with that. Everything came pouring down on me: sticky Southern summers spent catching lightning bugs, baseball games, Thanksgiving, the Real Santa Claus (ha!), on and on.<br /><br />I often think had we traveled to Switzerland when my son was two and daughter five, that we would not have come back. The hormones of raising a newborn just did me in. I was taken off guard because I basically left home at 18 to live in Europe, traveled a bunch and never really got homesick.<br /><br />I think our story there is not over, so I am content now with my life in the US. I can imagine its harder for you guys, with one of you not being Swiss so the door not remaining wide open. <br /><br />Repatriation is literally the worst.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15599778830910021344noreply@blogger.com