Sherwood Family Nonsense

After visiting Samarkand, we visited Bukhara.  Instead of being nestled up against the mountains, Bukhara is on a flat, flat plain west of S...

When Brandon was in language training, he and his Tajik teacher would often have conversations about linguistic misunderstandings.  Karim to...

For the past week I have been a (temporary) mother of seven.  In addition to my own five children, I've been watching the two boys (ages...

I used to think that cities were awesome.  I grew up in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, and I would dream of one day living somewher...

Thursday morning started out very well.  Chores were finished quickly, school went smoothly, and we were almost finished half an hour early....

It's a little late to be posting pictures of the house, but I kept waiting for a perfectly clean house and good light to take pictures ...

I've finally unpacked all of those boxes that landed me in trouble with Brandon (which, by the way is still in force), bought required...