Sherwood Family Nonsense

Everyone has something completely frivolous that they spend money on.  You all know what I'm talking about - that thing that for budgeti...

Every day after lunch, I take a nap.  Edwin and Joseph take naps too, but the girls are too old for naps (or rather, would wake up Edwin) so...

The girls are eating fruit, and I'm trying to get Joseph and Edwin fed Kathleen: Let's pretend this is magic  fruit that does mag...

Last week, Sophia turned four.  So far I've managed to avoid ever having a birthday party for any of my children.  In about twenty or th...

Brandon left this afternoon for Istanbul.  He has a work training for a few days, so it's just me and the children until later this week...

This week I had my first visit to a local health clinic.  When I took Sophia in for her ER visit, it was to a clinic run by South Africans, ...

Wednesday was Victory Day here in Azerbaijan.  According to the news snippet from yesterday, the whole world celebrated it yesterday to mar...

This summer we're going back to the US to visit family.  If it seems like we just got to Baku - you're right, we did.  But that'...

Twenty-two years ago, I learned to play the piano.  I was eight, and excited to begin playing beautiful music that would fill the house with...

Most days, I stay home all day with the children.  I wake up a five, go to bed around nine-thirty, and often spend every single minute betwe...