Maryann's Musings

The group, with ugly I-just-woke-up-why-are-you-taking-my-picture-Mom faces.😎   I feel as if a lot of my posts begin with car trips. It seems that every time I get excited about one of my blogs, I have to start with a road trip. This was actually a pretty fun road trip, though. It was our second car adventure with Aunt Danna and Jackson, and they always spice up our lives😊  On this escapade, we were driving up country to see another MK that lives about seven to eight hours away from us. None of us had ever met him. All we knew was that we were going to a river, eating dinner at their house, and playing X-box Kinnect. This trip was mostly for the teens. We have our original trio of Tristan, Jackson, and myself, but our family had the pleasure of bringing along Yilin (or Lin) with us. Welcome to the group, Yilin! I hope our craziness didn't scare you. 😛 After we sat in the car for 8 hours, we got pretty silly.   By the end of the car trip at about 7:0...

   I have been asked A LOT, "What's the difference between and MK and a TCK?" They only ask me this when I introduce them to the term, and it's usually the first time they have heard them.  This is the difference between them: MK stands for 'Missionary Kid.' I've heard people define it as 'a missionary kid that lives overseas', but there are MK's in the US too.  TCK stands for 'Third Culture Kid.' This is because they have three cultures. The culture from their native country, the country they are living in, and the culture that they themselves make by combining these.  Most MK's are TCK's, but not all TCK's are MK's. God has called all of us to be missionaries wherever we live. This is why not all MK's are TCK's, since you can be a missionary where ever you live. If that clears up the confusion, I'd like to say that being a TCK / MK is awesome!! Some people struggle wit...

     TCK's (Third Culture Kids) like to joke about how weird they are. Here are a few laughs that I've heard and some that I've added. A VERY common TCK fear. When I was young my parents moved around a lot..........but I always found them! You know you are a TCK when............. ....half your year group or class leave the country at the end of the term ....you can speak in 2 or more languages and can't spell properly in any of them ....you run out of pages before your passport expires ....you think passports are a basic form of ID that every kid has ....you don't really understand the latest film craze in your 'home' country, but you can understand films in more than one language ....you have eaten insects, parts of amphibians, or something just plain unheard of and you think it's not unusual ....the clothes you wear changes with the country you are in ....people ask you 'where are you from' and...