Sherwood Family Nonsense

There are certain milestones that come with parenting.  Some milestones are good ones - first smile, first piano recital, first day of schoo...

This year for spring break, we went to Thailand.  We've enjoyed our spring break trips for the past two years, and so I've decided t...

We are now halfway through our first winter here in Astana.  I have been afraid of winter ever since we got this assignment back in 2021, so...

When my aunt and Uncle visited Uzbekistan last April, I took the three oldest children with for an overnight trip to Khiva with our visitors...

Winter in Astana is a serious thing.  When we would talk about various places we could live in,  Astana was in my bottom five, along with Ni...

This past Saturday we got to go on a little trip out of town to see some traditional Kazakh activities.  Kazakhs are very proud of their nom...

I am, generally, not a big canner.  I learned how to can from my mother, who grew up canning.  When I was a child, we would have various day...

On Tuesday, our stuff finally arrived from Tashkent.  I'm not quite sure how it took five weeks to travel 1000 miles, which averages out...

When we decided to come to Nur-Sultan, we knew that it would be cold.  It is, after all, the second coldest capital city in the world.  Once...

This week, Kathleen turned sixteen.  It seems like it wasn't that long ago that I was dropped into the crazy, sleep-deprived world of be...