Sherwood Family Nonsense

We have a lot of stuff.  I'm not quite sure how we got all of the stuff, but I imagine my Target and Amazon order histories would give a...

According to the calendar, summer started this past week.  According to Tajikistan, summer started last month.  And so by now, a month into ...

Last week we ran out of water.  It was, as always, on laundry day.  We have four 500 liter water tanks in our utility space/room/closet/area...

Right now Brandon is reading to the children.  Last month he finished the last of the Harry Potter books, and since he's already read al...

The girls and I have now been taking Russian lessons for almost two years.  If I were a diligent, active Russian student who did things like...

All posts in the Foreign Service are not created equal.  Some places, like Paris or London are in nice, first-world countries.  Other places...

Last Saturday we were getting ready for the pool.  The kitchen was cleaned up from breakfast (on the menu that morning: cake.  Because cake ...

It is now June.  Our departure date for Tajikistan is May 2018, so that means we now have less than one year left in Dushanbe.  For most peo...

This month, Sophia turned nine.  Since my parents were in town (and the weather forecast called for rain), we decided to play tourist for h...

Tajikistan is not a country that is on very many people's bucket lists.  Maybe not on anybody's bucket list, or at least not the lis...