Like nomads, but with more stuff

 Zoltan complained about his throat feeling weird on Sunday. On Monday morning he had a bit of a fever, lots of sneezing, and congestion. Ab...

We were lucky enough to get a spot in one of the two community gardens we applied to. Then, after we got that notification Terry found a fe...

It has snowed nearly every day during the last two weeks. Without the office to go to providing an incentive to leave the house, the dail...

The kids and I started our isolations at the same time and we're finishing our third week at home together.  We do get outside most da...

COVID-19 has not made the same deep inroads within Alberta that it has in other places. We have been watching the rest of the world, making...

In the nearly 20 years Terry and I have been together prior to Calgary I can think of five ER visits: each of Alex's broken arms, when ...

Especially because of Alex's milk problems, we have all become very dedicated label readers. Usually, finding something my kids will ea...

We finally headed south as a family for the long weekend over Women's Day. Although Terry and I had both gotten to Almaty for work, ...

In child raising there are the obvious milestones we celebrate as they inch closer towards independence:  when they can walk, dress themsel...

... there is such a thing as too polluted.  We have days here where the pollution may not be China-bad (although we'd never know, the...

In packing for the trip, we realized we hadn't traveled anywhere particularly challenging with the kids until now. Most of our travels ...

Back when Zoltan was in sadik last year, Sensei Talgat came every week to teach karate to the kids. A friend of ours also brought her son t...

Because of the internet, and the ridiculously low (comparative) cost of nuts in central Asia, I have started making cashew milk rather than...

I don't usually do resolutions. Sometimes I plan guidelines, the last two years I have participated in the "One Little Word" ...

With care and attention, Alex has been healthy and medicine-free for about six months. And then we moved to another country. We thought...

Yesterday I got a phone call from Zoltan's preschool. His eye was red and swollen, he might have conjunctivitis, someone needs to come ...

When we were researching St Petersburg before moving to post, we read one random piece of advice to the effect that it's better to buy ...

22. Today I am grateful for naps. I don't know how 10-20 minutes of sleep during the day can make a person feel like they got an extra ...

15. Today I am thankful for my good health. Especially in the last year, every member of my immediate family suffered or even still suffers...

13. Today I am grateful for the glimpses I occasionally get of the good people the kids will turn out to be. Terry was sick on the couch la...