Like nomads, but with more stuff

What a joy today to see the package at the door and find that Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls has finally arrived!  It was a Kickstart...

We try to strike a balance with the kids on unhealthy behaviors (screen time, junk food, etc). We don't want to completely deprive them...

Language training is still wonderful. I definitely speak German better now than I ever spoke Russian, even after banging my head against th...

... too many wheels, to be honest. Right before we returned to post from R and R last year, we bought a cheap car for a cheap price. Then...

We've been in class about 3 weeks now and settling into our routines and slowly developing some ability.  Some highlights include: ...

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...

We are back at work, which means we are in language training. During the next several months our full time jobs plus off-time hobbies will ...

A fellow foreign service officer posted something on Facebook about Hungry Harvest , which alerted us to this organization's existence....

The kids and I left Kazakhstan, most likely (but in this crazy world never say never) forever, on August 1. it feels like a lifetime ago....