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• My Parents Visit, Again

  

  Every year we've been in the Foreign Service (all thirteen of them), we've been able to go back to the US for a visit. It hasn't always been at the same time,... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Eleanor

  

  Eleanor had her birthday back in May, more than a month ago. She had a pretty good birthday and got to go out to dinner to the local amusement park for her... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Cleaning out the House

  This week I started cleaning out the house. Cleaning out the house is one of the Dreaded Tasks of moving. The State Department will pay to ship our stuff... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Khiva

  

  A few weeks ago, I was able to take Kathleen, Sophia, and Edwin to Khiva, the smallest of the Silk Road cities. My aunt and uncle came out for their own Silk... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Ashley Sherwood, International Russian Translator

  

  My Russian is terrible. I've given up hope that I will ever be anything approaching good at Russian, but I still study it because it's so painful to be so bad... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Uzbekistan Saturday Fail

  There's a new park outside of town that I've been eying for months. I'm always a sucker for parks. It's not like one park is materially different from... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Sri Lanka

  

  This year we spent our spring break in Sri Lanka. We won't be able to go to the US this summer, so I decided that we should take a trip somewhere fun to soften... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• No More Solo Church

  A few weeks ago, our third stretch of self-churching came to an end. We've been holding every Sunday service alone since last June, when the final family in ou... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• COVID Strikes

  A few weeks ago, we all got sick with COVID. Omicron has showed up in Uzbekistan as it has pretty much everywhere else in the world. It seems like everyone wh... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• 40

  

  This past week, I turned forty years old. My birthday was a completely delightful day. It actually turned into a completely delightful two days by the time the... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• The Circus, on Ice!

  

  Yesterday we took the kids to the circus again. I have to admit that I'm kind of a sucker for circuses. As I child I would beg my parents to take me to the... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• 2021, In Summary

  I must say that I really don't have much to complain about 2021. Lots of people have had crummy years, but ours has been pretty great. When we started the yea... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Christmas 2021

  

  The Christmas season seems to go faster every year. I remember the endless days dragging on, stretching my childhood Christmases to months of painful waiting... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Edwin!

  

  This week we had our last birthday for the year, Edwin's twelfth birthday. His birthday falls right in the middle of the birthday season, where we have five... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Socializing Our Teenagers

  Ever since we've started homeschooling, we've gotten questions about various aspects of homeschooling. Friends wonder how I'm able to get it all done (a... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Thanksgiving 2021

  

  Our Thanksgiving this year was very quiet. Each year our Thanksgivings have grown smaller. We started with twenty-four people in 2018, spent 2019 in North... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Elizabeth Joins the Fray

  Elizabeth is officially talking. She's been saying words for some time now, but in the last month she has mastered the art of three- and four-word sentences. ... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Joseph!

  

  This week Joseph turned ten years old. When Kathleen turned ten years old, it was such an unimaginably ancient age that I hardly knew what to do with myself. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Switching Stables

  

  The children and I have now been riding together in Tashkent for three years. When we first moved here and were looking for a stable, Brandon brought home a... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!

  

  Elizabeth turned two last Sunday. Brandon spent all Sunday observing the Uzbek presidential election in Bukhara, so we didn't celebrate on Sunday, but instead o... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING