Sherwood Family Nonsense

This past weekend was Novruz, or Persian New Year, so Brandon got to enjoy one of the great perks of living overseas - having both American ...

Life with children is always evolving and changing.  When I had one child I was able to pretty much ignore her all day long while I went abo...

We've been getting a home milk delivery now for over three months.  A week of two into pasteurizing ten liters a week with a boiling wat...

I've never thought of myself as crazy until I married Brandon and moved to Tajikistan.  Every Saturday I cook up another scheme to go o...

My youngest brother got married last week in Utah last week.  When Brandon and I started living overseas we decided that marriages would be ...

Just in case you haven't noticed, we hike a lot.  There's really not much in Dushanbe for a family with five young children once yo...

I'm sitting in the LAX international terminal, waiting for my second flight of the day to board and send me back over the Atlantic and b...

I love plants.  It probably comes of growing up in green North Carolina, where life bursts from any available patch of soil.  Green things a...

Monday it rained.  Monday was President's Day so Brandon had the day off.  When you're in Dushanbe in winter and it's raining, ...

Last Saturday I was woken by Joseph's shrieks, an unfortunately regular event on weekends.  Brandon shambled out to break up the fight b...