Sherwood Family Nonsense

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.  The last remaining family in our church group returned to Tashkent two and a half weeks ago, jus...

 I have now been stuck in a cast for twelve days.  Well, it's not actually a cast - it's a metal-foam-sandwhich brace wrapped in a v...

There is a saying that a horseback rider isn't a true rider until they've fallen off seven times.  Up until this week, I had only fa...

 This week Joseph turned nine years old.  It we were a normal-sized family, that would mean that my baby is almost double digits, but Joseph...

          This Monday was handshake day.  It's been a long week, so handshake day seems like it happened a month ago.  Bidding this year...

We had a low-key Halloween this year.  Our Halloweens are usually low-key, but this year was a really  low-key year.  A few weeks before Hal...

  Elizabeth turned one this week.  I know it's cliche to say, but I can't believe how fast the time has passed.  It's a been a s...

Last week, my Russian teacher's daughter fell ill.  She wasn't terribly ill, just tired and feeling low, which could be caused by an...

 Brandon and I are working on a project (which will get its own blog post once it's done).  We started talking about it at the end of la...

This Monday started the six-week long time that is known in the State Department as bidding season.  Similar to a worldwide game of musical ...