The last few weeks have been busy for everyone! Here are the final posts for the FS Spring Rejuvenation! I’ve really been enjoying JDC’s posts about life in Lagos. All FS families think that the drivers at their post are the worst in the world. In JDC’s case, she’s right. Kitchen Cables shares her experiences… Read More FS Blog Rejuvenation FINAL Round Up
It’s the last week of our Foreign Service Blog Rejuvenation! This week’s prompts are about what inspires us. Prompt 1: Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move or inspire you? Prompt 2: Find three other FS blogs that inspire you. Link… Read More FS Blog Spring Rejuvenation – FINAL PROMPTS
We’ into the home stretch! Just one more week of prompts for our Spring Rejuvenation. This week, we’re talking about how we communicate, both at Post and with our families back home. Week 5 – Communication . Prompt 1: Tell us how you keep in touch with friends and family back home. (prompt courtesy of Eve… Read More FS Blog Rejuvenation Prompts, Week #5 – Communication
I can’t live without coffee. More precisely, my family doesn’t want to live WITH me, if I can’t have coffee in the mornings. And good coffee is hard to get in a lot of places in the world. Like a rest stop in London. WTH? How is it that hotels in London only offer… Read More What’s the ONE thing you always pack in your suitcase when PCSing?
Everywhere in the world, Foreign Service Officers and their families love to kvetch about their housing. It’s too small. It’s too big. It’s configured in a weird way. There aren’t any toilet paper holders in the bathrooms. The kitchen is too hot. The floors are too cold. But somehow, in our own quiet way, each of us turns… Read More FS Blog Rejuvenation Round-up, Week #3
Each Sunday, for six weeks, I’ll post three prompts (an introspective prompt, an activity prompt, and a photo prompt) to get us thinking about what we love about Post and this crazy FS life. Use any or none of them, then comment on that week’s post or in the FB group to let us know… Read More FS Blog Rejuvenation, Week #4 – Making Memories
No matter where you are in the world, you and your family gotta eat. Much like housing, GSO (har har har), and the weather, the local food is something that we all like to complain about, but in most places, eventually come to love. I have fond memories of learning to eat “snot sauce,” or krin… Read More FS Blog Rejuvenation Round-up, Week #2
What’s the best thing about coming back to the States from West Africa? Vegetable variety. Yes, access to asparagus and swiss chard and fresh broccoli narrowly beats out living close to friends and family. The quality of fruits and vegetables throughout West Africa is incredible. Everything bursts with flavor—after all, West African varieties haven’t been… Read More Seasonal vegetables in DC – Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
I pulled out the photos we got at our family photo session last year for a scrapbooking project, and man, there must have been a lot of dust in the air, because my eyes watered up right away. We missed the chance to get newborn photos of Grace taken in the hospital, due to a communication… Read More On photos of Grace and memories of her as a newborn
Each Sunday, for six weeks, I’ll post three prompts (an introspective prompt, an activity prompt, and a photo prompt) to get us thinking about what we love about Post and this crazy FS life. Use any or none of them, then comment on that week’s post or in the FB group to let us know… Read More Blog Rejuvenation Prompts , Week #2 – FOOD