What a difference a good night’s sleep makes!
We got a bed!!! No, we weren’t sleeping on the floor for our first year, but in some ways I would have preferred that 🙂 When we rented this...
Newton Park science museum
It’s really hard to provide the same schooling experience for my children as their friends back home may be getting while living in a country where they don’t speak...
Fools and Roads
У России две беды – дураки и дороги “U Rossii dve bedi – duraki i dorogi” The rhyme and alliteration of this well known Russian saying don’t sound quite so good...
Going to the doctor’s
Some people are afraid of going to the doctor’s. All those scary white coats and round shiny disks on their foreheads of Hollywood fame, not to mention metal instruments that...
Sick = Not Fun. Going to the doctor’s Part 2
I thank God SO much that we have all been kept safe and for the most part have been well while we have been here. As much as I...
Protected: The Initiation Phase
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Christmas in Russia
It’s 1.55 am Christmas morning, and I have finally wrapped all the presents and filled the stockings. I’m sure it would be a lot easier if I were just...
Rolling Stones Gather No Moss
But I wouldn’t mind gathering just a little! For a girl who spent 25 years of her life in the one house in a leafy suburb of Melbourne, moving...