Like nomads, but with more stuff

 In a conversation about how awful we are as parents for forcing her to go on vacation, Alex gave an example of a small town where there is ...

 We've been skiing the last 6 Saturdays, and have learned quite a bit. We learned that when Nakiska is packed with people and we leave w...

 We've had snow on the ground for a solid week now. Alex's days of riding her bike to school are probably over until May (assuming k...

We'd been warned before heading to Calgary to save up for a new windshield or two. Chips, cracks, hairline fractures, the traffic kicke...

Each child has spent a large part of this evening entirely encased in a sleeping bag. First they wandered around testing out life as an inc...

Disclaimer: I am still happily married to the father of my children, who provides financial and emotional support as much as the six hour t...

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

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 ...

Several people from my A-100 class left for post this past week. Several others have finished their time at FSI and are doing their other s...

Our friends held their son's birthday party at their church this weekend. This led to a conversation with the kids on the car ride home...

The most exciting thing happened tonight. A neighborhood kid we know from the bus stop rang the doorbell. We've almost never spoken wit...

After seven years, this was my very last week as a stay at home (or work part time) mom. I'm now just like almost all my friends, and l...

... out of letting the kids play outside without adult supervision . We lived in the center of a big city, in an apartment, for essentially...

When Terry joined the foreign service, I quit my job as an attorney in Philadelphia so that I could accompany him all over the world. I con...

Last night we finally got some snow. Today we finally got some cold weather. The kids lasted all of 5 minutes outside this morning. Already...

Something I think every foreign service person would recognize: having in your life people who knew you when is important, but it is equall...

Every year for the kids' birthdays Terry and I argue about how to celebrate. He prefers the way he grew up: birthday child chooses dinn...

27. Today I am grateful for the daily gratitude project. Every study on happiness shows that expressing gratitude is an important part of a...

As a first world person with first world problems, it's too easy to get bogged down sometimes. I loved doing the daily gratitude post l...

With all the moving we do, it becomes relatively easy to develop an understanding of what I need to be settled, comfortable, feeling like ...