Like nomads, but with more stuff

I've moved one more step closer to the possible eventuality of becoming a foreign service officer - I passed the QEP. Of course, the wi...

When you last saw the Mad-Zac clan we were returning from a vacation fraught with minor annoyances and major family bonding time. Turns out ...

My friend Heather inspired me. Her son is one month older than Zoltan and got his first haircut last week by her hands and the family hair c...

I keep forgetting to mention, the other day I saw a woman walking her baby in the pram ... with the tiny little kick-me dog riding in the b...

Terry told me I had to blog about something that's gone right on this trip so here is my posting on Aeroflot. No, seriously. We took A...

Other than Zoltan's 3 screaming wakeups (each 2 minutes or less, Alex slept through each) the kids did pretty well the first night. We...

I meet up with Terry in the main building and give him the news. At least we have somewhere for Zoltan to sleep and it only took FIVE requ...

The trip was pretty much as expected, although Alex's refusal to nap on the plane even after Dramamine was a bit of a surprise. We man...

A month or two ago, there was a cold snap and some kind of work being done in the building that required us to have no heat for a day or mor...

There's a cafe on Zhukoskovo near us that opened this summer and I have meant to go a million times. One day when I was having special ...