Mom of 3rd Culture Kids

My friend has posted a link of her son’s post on his blog. My friend is also a mom of 3rd culture kids like me and so, we share something in common. Anyways, I was so touched with her son’s post that talks about ‘Home’. He has described how he has considered his birth country to be ‘home’ after living in different countries all his life but after he has gone back ‘home’ to study and live independently, only then he realized that ‘home’ is not a place but the people ( his family) that he loves. The post was very well written in which you can feel the emotions of the son and indeed I was so touched after reading it. As a mom of 3rd culture kids, I could relate to what he’s going through since my kids ( as young as they are) are having experiences like this too. Yes, our daughter has asked us many times, where is ‘home’? She was 6 years old at that time and she was quite confused that it seems we were living in a country that is not her mother’s nor her father’s country. If you haven’t known yet, I’m a Filipino married to a Malaysian and our family’s living in Thailand.. So, where is home? .. ..

Welcome to Malaysia! Yes, we are currently in Malaysia right now and it’s really nice to be back here even just for a short while. We arrived in Klang just this afternoon and after resting for a couple of hours, we went to Aeon Jusco in Klang. Oh, I love to go to the malls even if I don’t buy anything. We passed by Haagen Das and I how I wished that I was there redeeming redenvelope haagen dazs icrecream , but we were just there to look around. But after passing by Daiso, a Japanese shop that sells everything for 5 RM, one can’t help but buy stuff a lot of stuff. Oh, we really didn’t buy so much of stuff, but for sure we didn’t just buy a single 5RM item.

Oh, anyways, I’m excited for tomorrow.. to spend more time with our friends here, to savor Malaysian food and hopefully to go and shop a bit more.

We’re currently in Malaysia right now and aside from visiting friends and family, one thing that we shouldn’t miss is a trip to the bookstore. Being in a  bookstore in Malaysia is like haven for me and our kids since they have a wide selection of English books. Oh, you could never get this selection back in Thailand. Even if we never get to buy as many books as we want, but the feeling of accomplishment of getting to choose the ‘best’ book out of all the varied choices is simply priceless. Never mind if we don’t get to buy the other school supplies and plastic cards here, as long as we are clutching our selected books back home, we could never be happier!