Drawing on ethnographic data from two projects on the home language practices of bilingual families living in Sweden, I aim to show how these practices are intimately connected with the family members’ historical bodies (Scollon & Scollon, 2004), in particular, their lived experiences of language (Busch, 2017). I consider how such past lived experiences impact family members’ current interpretation of conceptual discourses in place, as well as their language ideologies, which in turn influence their enacted linguistic repertoires. I further consider how family members’ shifting chronotopic identities (Blommaert & De Fina, 2016), can be traced to lived experiences with language at specific points in space and time. Although often considered in relation to the individual, I also aim to highlight how within the family context, lived experiences with language are frequently co-constructed between family members due to the parallel, intimately connected life trajectories that are often seen within members of the same family.