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I know there is loads to catch up up…years actually, but I am going to give it a go. I’ll start where I left off. In case you’ve forgotten close your eyes and pretend you are still in Virginia the fall of 2021. Randy is in Dhaka. The kids and I with Grandma’s help areContinue reading “Growing Pains”

After a wonderfully long summer in Greece and Florida it was time to return to normal life, except we had to create our new normal. It was all new for us. Step by step, as foreign service life always requires. Step one, get from Florida to DC, step two go to hotel for few daysContinue reading “New number, who dis?”

When I was growing up I was pretty lucky to have a sister. When we were little I didn’t fully appreciate her and would make her do things like fetch me water, be the students with her friends in my bossy school room, hang out with me in my room when I needed someone toContinue reading “Amarreto Sours”

While we were in Florida, Miral turned 4! We all know I love a list and in honor of her birthday I am going to list ten of the many many things I love about Miral. For your birthday we decided to celebrate and all go to Sea World. This was our first park sinceContinue reading “Dolphins and Orcas and Princesses, oh my!”

After a loooong trip socially distanced masked trip…. …we landed in Florida. It was our first time in two years in the US and we were all excited to be home and spend time with all our family that we had missed. We headed straight to Grandma Gertch’s house where we spent a few daysContinue reading “Coming to America”

From Sifnos we headed back to Athens and drove that same day right to Peloponnese. This was our first time spending time on the mainland and we were excited to see the Peloponnese. The ferry and drive took us all day and we arrived around sunset to the house we had rented. This house endedContinue reading “Village Life”

Next up on our Greek odyssey was Sifnos. Randy and I had gone to Sifnos 7 years before when Adam was two and a half and Malcolm was six months. We were staying in nearby Serifos, the more rural, less popular, sister island, and came to Sifnos for a day trip. Because I love aContinue reading “Mermaids in the Castro”

We decided before we left Urkaine to take a trip to Greece. The flight is super short and we luckily were able to take three weeks and it was everything we needed after two years of Covid. Greece is always just what my soul needs every time. Everything in Greece hits me right, the sun,Continue reading “Air and Light”

We were assigned to two years and when we went there we had all sorts of plans to travel around Europe and to explore every bit of the city, the bars, the restaurant. Four months into our tour Covid hit. We spent six months home from school, worked mostly from home for most of ourContinue reading “До побачення Україно”

We have always had a lot of visitors wherever we are living and were expecting tons of visitors in Ukraine. We had visitors lined up to come every month for the first six months, then Covid happened. No one came to visit us for a very long time. Then vaccines finally happened and Grandma YuyuContinue reading “Visitor!”