Sherwood Family Nonsense

It's almost May, which means that it's one of my least/most favorite times of the year: time to plan summer leave.  Summer is a tric...

This Saturday we went hiking.  It's been over six months since we have been out adventuring because, as it turns out, I didn't much...

I am feeling really good.  On Wednesday I washed laundry, ran almost three miles, schooled four children, had a Russian class, baked six loa...

I just tucked Eleanor into bed.  It has been a long Sunday today; we hosted church followed by a group dinner for twenty people.  Everyone h...

At five am last Saturday morning we finally stumbled in to our house, shooed the children out of the toy room, put them to bed, and fell int...

I am writing this post from my parents' house in North Carolina.  If all had gone according to plan (ha), I would have been writing this...

Brandon did, in fact, make it out of Dushanbe on Monday, although nine hours later than the flight was supposed to leave, at three in the af...

Right now my children are all gathered around the fire in my parents' family room, listening to a story on a quiet Sunday afternoon.  If...

We've now been back in the States for just over a month.  And in that month the children have gone camping with their cousins, we've...

As I mentioned earlier, I am now a lone woman (and adult, for that matter) in my parents' house.  They have a former sister missionary w...