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• Hello, Fall!

  When we decided to come to Nur-Sultan, we knew that it would be cold. It is, after all, the second coldest capital city in the world. Once November hits, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Sweet Sixteen

  

  This week, Kathleen turned sixteen. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that I was dropped into the crazy, sleep-deprived world of being a new parent. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Hello, Kazakhstan!

  We have now been in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan for seventeen days now and everyone is fairly settled in. Kazakhstan is the biggest -stan country in Central Asia,... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Farewell, Tashkent

  Tomorrow morning, a team of movers will show up at our house to pack everything we own in a flurry of paper, boxes and tape. I've spent the last week preparing... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Sophia!

  

  Sophia's birthday was also back in May, but we didn't celebrate it in May either. She wanted to wait and celebrate it with her grandparents. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2022 FAMILY, PARENTING

• 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