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• 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

• Girls' Saturday

  

  Recently Brandon and I decided to start having boy's day/girls' day. Brandon wanted to start doing Boy Things with the boys, so we decided to spend one... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Elizabeth, Emotional Support Toddler

  

  Brandon is, sadly, back to working full-time at the embassy. He has been since the spring, but we're still in mourning that he has to go to work and leave us al... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Camping!

  

  This weekend, we went camping. I actually really enjoy camping, but I can't quite figure out why I find it so much fun. There's something about fires, sleeping... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Uzbek Fall, Take Four

  The children have been back in school now for three weeks. Our routines have settled back into their usual groove, and order and sanity have resumed their usua... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Last Time

  

  Two weeks ago, on the first day of school, on a whim I decided to put Elizabeth in undies. The timing wasn't really the best, but it was going to be happening... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Kathleen

  

  While we were in the US, Kathleen turned fifteen years old. We were at my parents' house, so she got to celebrate the day with her grandparents. Her cousin was... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• R&R 2021: Lots of People, Lots of Fun, and a Fail

  

  Editor's note. Our R R this year was technically home leave, but I'm still going to call it R R. Nobody cares about State Department's arcane labeling except th... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• The Best-Laid Plans

  I am a planner. I love planning and logistics and booking plane tickets and finding rental houses and putting items on the calendar and making schedules,... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• All Alone, Again

  Today, Brandon and I woke up at 8:00. After making sure the smaller children got breakfast, we showered, dressed, made sure everyone else was dressed, and... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Hiking Fail

  

  A few weeks ago, we had a holiday. The children had finished school the week before, so we decided to celebrate by doing something fun. While discussion what... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Change of Plans

  We've been anticipating our departure from Tashkent for quite a few months now. I've gone on two shopping weekends to get all of the treasures that I just... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Girls' Weekend, Part Two

  

  As I was driving up to my friend's house at the conclusion of our last girls weekend, she turned to me with an excited face, "Do you want to go to Bukhara to... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Happy Birthday, Sophia!

  

  This week, Sophia turned thirteen, which means that I now have two teenagers in my house. When I mentioned this to Sophia, she looked at me with a somewhat... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Tashkent: Best and Worst

  We're starting to wrap up our tour here in Tashkent, with our departure date two months away. A tour always seems like it was short when we're at the end of... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Fruit Season

  For the last two months, I've been dreaming of strawberries. Every time I would pull out another tired apple or orange from the refrigerator, I would count dow... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2021 FAMILY, PARENTING