Sherwood Family Nonsense

I hate potty training.  Most things in parenting haven't lived up to their bad reputation.  Babies staying up all night?  It doesn't...

This past week was my birthday.  I love birthdays.  It's one of the few days (Mother's Day is theoretically one of those days) I can...

Last Monday was a holiday (thanks, MLK!).  We've spent a lot of our time  sledding   recently , so Brandon and I decided to mix things u...

This past Saturday we went sledding.  Sledding is an activity that, unlike hiking, the children never get tired of.  Never mind that sleddin...

We have a doorbell on the outside of our gate.  It hangs on the wall next to our courtyard door and anyone who feels like ringing it can wal...

New Year's is not a big holiday in the Sherwood Family Household.  Back a long, long time ago when I was young, childless, and irrespons...

Sledding season has officially begun.  It actually began a few weeks before Christmas when Dushanbe got nine inches of snow.  But the sleds...

Last year was not a good year for Christmas in the Sherwood family.  Living out of suitcases in a temporary house for five weeks ended on...

Edwin turned six last week.  I find this kind of amazing, that my third child is six now.  There is a qualitative difference between five an...

Last Saturday I hosted my very first embassy party.  Dushanbe is a small enough embassy that pretty much every party is an open invitation p...