Like nomads, but with more stuff

One of our grand plans for next year (no longer next year, but rather in about 4 months!) is to hire an au pair to give us more flexibility...

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...

Our date night plans were pretty sedate, then a friend called who also had a babysitter that night and we changed our plans to meet up with...

Technically, they are home and no longer bounding.  Terry and the kids went to Berlin during the kids' spring holiday last week while I...

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, ...

This week the market was particularly exciting. Since October, fruit has been pretty predictable. Apples, pears, oranges, mandarin (cleme...

As we stare at our last few months, we realized there are many things in Astana we'd been holding off on checking out. But now there...

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

The other day Terry and I had what I've started calling "a spirited discussion" about how much travel is actually likely when...

Astana does boast a few decent restaurants.  We hadn't found anything to write home about, though, until now.  I am so grateful for fri...