This year we invited friends over to our place for New Year’s. Andrew and I made some food and our friends made food, too! One was a dish from Uzbekistan called “plov” with rice and beef and the other one was “samsa”, which are actually all across Central Asia but are made differently in each Read more about New Year’s At Our Place[…]
Let me preface this blog by saying that we thoroughly enjoy living in Kazakhstan and wouldn’t trade it for anything! Also, hands down, the “thing” we miss the most is not things at all but people…. Family and friends and thankfully because of technology we are able to keep up with a lot of you Read more about What Do We Miss?[…]
So one interesting thing to note is the bedding situation. (Our bed pictured above on the left) Not terribly different than what we are used to but it seems duvets are popular here, you use the top sheet underneath and the duvet is stuffed in a sheet type cover, then there is a top blanket Read more about The Bedding Things[…]
Well we just passed the 1 year anniversary of getting our amazing Land Cruiser which inspired this post! Andrew is actually jumping in to help me with this one. First of all, I don’t drive!!! “No way, Jose!” Now, that’s not to say in a few years maybe I will but no thanks for now. Read more about Traffic In Almaty 😏[…]
So it’s always interesting in other countries when it comes to bugs and Andrew and I have both had our fair share of crazy bugs in various countries. I am happy to report that in Almaty specifically (I can’t say the same for the rest of Kazakhstan) that we don’t have any crazy large or Read more about Little Silverfish[…]
Isn’t Eloise just adorable? I set her next to one of four heaters in our apartment for this blog hah. So a fascinating thing here is in the winter when the heat is “turned on.” In the cities (in City limits), mostly in former Soviet countries, the heat is literally switched on October 15th and Read more about How Do We Stay Warm?[…]
I know how boring right? Well, this blog IS about our life internationally and for you Americans who don’t experience this you gotta know what it is like here, let’s be honest 🤷🏼♀️ So, first of all, the washers here are both A) Smaller and B) Take longer than washers in the States. Thankfully a Read more about Laundry[…]
This is a picture of some amazing dishwasher tablets that we use for our tiny little dishwasher in our kitchen (think half the size of American style dishwashers). So let me back up a bit to when we moved in to our apartment back in December of last year. There was a box of leftover Read more about Our Dishwasher Blunder 😣[…]
We had so much fun hiking a couple of weeks ago as a family. It was Eloise’s first trip! Avinelle is at the age now where she can actually hike a little bit. She was quite slow at times, but Papa hung back to walk alongside her and sometimes carry her. Then they got to Read more about Crossing the Creek[…]
So since we have changed things up a bit in our routine, I decided it would be nice for Avi and I to work on our Russian together! So on her days off of her local preschool, we do something called “Mommy School” and I cut a blank drawing sheet out of one of her Read more about Mommy School![…]