Sherwood Family Nonsense

On July 30, we boarded a charter flight in Tashkent and about thirteen hours later, got off in New York.  After our flights through Korea ha...

Recently I've gotten a lot of questions from friends about homeschooling.  With the announcement of online or online-hybrid schooling in...

I haven't been keeping up on this blog because nothing has been going on.  Recently Sophia complained about not seeing people.  I pointe...

This week Brandon had a birthday.  Birthdays get a lot less personally exciting as an adult.  Getting older isn't as great as it used...

School ended the week before last.  The last week of school, the weather decided that spring was officially over and the temperatures wen...

This week we celebrated Sophia's birthday.  Twelve doesn't have the same significance now that children transition from primary to t...

Spring here in Tashkent has been rather uneven.  Of course, spring is a season of uneven weather - never does the weather slowly warm up in ...

Friday morning, I bundled the kids - complete with masks - into the car, and we left the house.  As we drove through the neighborhood, every...

This week Eleanor turned six.  Uzbekistan has loosened up their lockdown this week, but all the fun places are still closed.  It made for a ...

One of the small tragedies of quarantine in Uzbekistan has been my yard.  Last year I spent a lot of time and money getting pots, dirt, and...