Sherwood Family Nonsense

 Christmas this year was great.  I can't actually remember a Christmas that wasn't great, but there have been years that have been l...

By most measurements, life is usually harder here in Central Asia than in the US.  We have some things that are easier, but there's a re...

 We've been really happy to have two cars, after only having one (and for two years, none) for the entire fifteen years we've been m...

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...