One of our Spring Break family activities was spending some time doing “grief tower” processing as we do periodic check-ins with our kids. This is a great, practical resource for those caring for missionaries and their families. It helps kids name accumulated and unresolved losses in a way that introduces what healthy grieving looks like (as well as unhealthy grieving). I think it is a good pandemic processing tool too!

This was a bittersweet time – processing the losses and being grateful too for one another and how God has worked. But our kids are more in touch with losses with going AND coming back so conversations are maturing with them for sure.  And of course, the post “grief-tower” family hug. 

I know – probably not the average “Spring Break” family activity!  We all enjoy talking with each other about the Philippines and its impact on us because we’re all going through different, but similar things in the transition. It’s good to grieve with hope!