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• Uzbekistan, Here We Come

  And the winner is... Nick! Followed closely by Kelley and Mindy We're either very obvious about what part of the world we like to hang out in or you guys are... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Twenty Questions, Round Two

  Here are the next round of questions. After these ones, feel free to ask specific country or city names. And this time (unlike the last two times), you might... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Twenty Questions, Round One

  So the questions are in and it's time for some answers! Does the name of the nation rhyme (or at least make an assonance) with the patronymic of a man who was... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Twenty Questions Time!

  

  So today Brandon got an magical email in his inbox today, the one that tells us where we'll be spending the next two (or three) years of our life. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Me and the Med Unit

  I have always (foolishly) prided myself in having a pretty healthy family. We all get occasional colds and fevers and sore throats and even stomach bugs. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Homeschooling: (Finally) Finding Our Stride

  We just finished the second week of October. Last week we had a holiday on Monday (hello, Columbus Day!) and then schooled for the rest of the week. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Well Hello, Fall

  It's been summer here in Tajikistan since May. I like summer. It's the season where you can throw on a pair of flip-flops and leave the house without any other... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Top (and Bottom) Five of Dushanbe

  It's bidding season right now the Foreign Service, which means that everyone wants to know what is great and not so great about all of the posts that they're... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Me in London

  One of my favorite parts about being pregnant overseas in sketchy places is going to London for an OB appointment or two. Being pregnant isn't that great -... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Iskanderkul

  

  This past weekend was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tajikistan's independence. The locals around here celebrated with a couple of parades (one rumored to... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Adventure Saturday

  

  We haven't been adventuring in awhile, not since our crazy fourteen-mile hike back in the beginning of June. Just in case I haven't mentioned it, summer in... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• The Crazy Train Gets a Little Bigger

  About a month ago I came back from a doctor's appointment. Brandon and I gathered the children together and I pulled out a strip of pictures. "I was at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Kathleen!

  

  This year Kathleen turned ten years old. In some ways this is pretty crazy - a whole decade! Double digits! The beginning of the end (or rather, the... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Family Pictures

  

  While we were in Missouri this summer, we subjected ourselves to the ordeal known as Family Pictures. Back in 2012, we had the very talented Mark... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Living in Dushanbe (and Earning That Differential) – Travel

  Dushanbe is one of the highest differential posts in the world. According to the State Department’s arcane schedule of Things That are Hard to Live With,... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• And We're Back!

  Right now there is a pile of clothes sitting outside my door. But every other sign of our 4:30 AM arrival back in Dushanbe is neatly put away (thank you, Brando... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Sick Week

  This morning I woke up and felt almost fine. Yes, there was the ghost of a headache and my legs ached and some bloating was still hanging around, but I was... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Hiking and Hiking and Hiking and Hiking and Hiking and Hiking

  

  When I booked our homestay, I mentioned that we would like to rent some donkeys for hiking. The girls have been dying to go donkey hiking ever since I made the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Seven Lakes

  

  Originally we were going to Moscow. We had the plane tickets all but booked, the dates blocked off for work, the the visa paperwork printed out. Then it turned... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Two Birthdays and an Anniversary

  

  Before Joseph and I left on our fabulous trip to London, Eleanor had a birthday. Sophia has been the only two year-old so far who understood what a birthday... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2016 FAMILY, PARENTING