Sherwood Family Nonsense

Just in case you haven't noticed, Halloween is this week.  It's very very easy to forget American holidays when you live overseas...

It's kind of cold in my house right now.  It's not so cold that everyone is wearing their winter coats inside (although that has hap...

So it's been some time since all of you have gotten your daily recommended dose of the Sherwood Family Doings.  I'd like to pretend ...

Monday started out pretty well.  School started on time and everyone worked steadily enough that I got done with teaching forty-five minutes...

Things are thankfully calming down here in Dushanbe.  The 'bad guys,' as the boys call them, are being hunted down out of the mount...

A few weeks ago, my doorbell rang.  I put on my orange Croc knock-offs and shuffled through the bright afternoon sunshine to my gate.  I pul...

Eleanor loves  shoes.  Any time she stumbles (or crawls) across a pair of shoes, or just a shoe, she stops to put it on.  I heard her scr...

After waking up from my Sunday afternoon nap, I went downstairs to cook dinner.  Brandon had been up at 2 that morning for an airport run pi...

Friday morning, Brandon and I exercised.  We make a habit of exercising, and because we have five children and a job, we exercise before the...

We've now been back for a little over a week.  All of the suitcases have been unpacked (including the one that showed up four days late)...