Without documents (or friends), you’re nothing
(translation below) Last year after countless hours of travelling on buses, waiting, being sent away to return with another piece of paper, or told to come back on another...
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...
What colour was that light?
I have a number of posts in the draft stage, but this may possibly be the most interesting, so I’ve decided to write it first. Sunday was International Women’s...
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...
Visiting villages
Several weeks back, Nickolai went on a village trip. They went to a few different villages on a round trip. It is difficult to access many of these villages...
An Aussie ray of sunshine
The last week of April and the first week of May were very special for us. We had a visitor from Australia! Our children’s pastor and friend Katie came...
SUMMER!!!
I thought it would NEVER come, but finally summer has arrived. Ok, it’s not quite like the Aussie summers I’m used to, and I am reminded that people were...
Her name means Love.
In the last few months I have had the absolute privilege of meeting Lyubov. She is an amazing woman who started an orphanage many years back and she and...
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...