belong

I’m an American mom raising my son in Denmark. I want him to belong here, even when I still feel in between 2 cultures.

I was sitting in my cargo bike outside my son’s børnehave (kindergarten) on an especially bitter February morning in Copenhagen, crying over forgetting his Fastelavn costume at home. Loading audio narration… Fastelavn, for the uninitiated, is Denmark’s candy-filled, costume-wearing, barrel-smashing children’s tradition, somewhere between Halloween and Carnival. It’s something Danes…