Like nomads, but with more stuff

Our fabulous sponsors invited us to accompany them to Shakespeare on the Bow , which is Calgary's version of Shakespeare in the Park. T...

I've been here about 10 days now, more or less, and so far everything is both exactly as I expected and totally different. There's ...

The car is on its way. The house seems bigger with so much less stuff in it. In the last few weeks I said "so long" to friends an...

This one is a good one. A really good one. Our car got packed up to head out of Astana about six weeks ago.  On Thursday afternoon it was d...

[Oops, somehow this never got published....] In the two weeks before packout we had excitement - some serious stuff, some less serious, s...

11 boxes of air freight (65lb underweight) and 219 boxes of ship freight (almost 2000lb underweight) later, with a total of 6 suitcases and...

... no, no, don't worry, Terry and I are fine. With 5 weeks to go in my tour things are winding down. Many of my kids' friends - ...

Well, not anytime soon, but it is for real now. I have orders and I have plane tickets. At this point it's just me and the kids, we don...

We have books on the shelves.  The children have toy storage furniture in their rooms and the toys to fill them.  The awesome two story UAB...

The day after the "psych out" I was certain something new would arise to prevent the resumption of cohabitation between my stuf...

My stuff arrived in town the day after Thanksgiving. The Monday afterwards is a local holiday. I was a little surprised and definitely plea...

We didn't have any more pockets of free time until Saturday morning so that is when we went to make our second attempt at getting tires...

This car is more needy than a newborn. When we realized what was missing from the car we immediately sent a confident message to the tran...

The car is here, cleared customs, registered, insured and ready to drive. We only noticed after we got it home that the windshield wipers h...

One thing that has become a tradition for our family with each UAB shipment is the follow on cardboard forts.  We pack a couple of box cu...

Glory glory be. 23 days after arriving at post our air freight has arrived. 

Now that our air freight is here (glory, glory, blessed be - finally!) I will try to explain what it is like to live off the "welcome ...

When our home in Astana is at full complement, we will have received four shipments: UAB (air freight), HHE by Air (extra air freight), POV...

We're 3 days in and things are starting to move along at rocket speed.  Alex has been assessed at school and we've bought a first t...

(the cloud) When I went to double check that the hotel in DC had confirmed a reservation with a taxi to the airport, the gentleman at the c...