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Lately, our mornings consist of running a few errands and going either for a walk or to the playground. This morning, we were up early...

A couple days ago, Kirsi decided she liked Simba’s dogfood. Yes, you read correctly. She likes it because it’s crunchy. Gross!! Of...

This morning, the kids and I headed out to do some errands. I wanted to buy some bagels, find bubble solution for bubbles and a camping...

Isn’t it funny how a morning at the playground is the best thing in the world for a preschooler? Der had class again today and my...

Especially when you’re tired and have another child to take care of! I knew about the quest for independence and making her own...

Who can function on 2 hours of sleep? Definitely not me. Or Derwin. We are two people that need our sleep and here we are with a child...

The weather here has been really strange lately. I thought we were full blown into spring because we’ve had some gorgeous days that make...

Is it possible that Aidan is teething already? That our teeny, tiny 3-month-old boy is cutting teeth? For about three weeks now, he has...

I love it when the weather warms up, the days get longer and the flowers start blooming. The anticipation for summer is great! Spring...

Saturday was our last day and we were supposed to take one last horse ride before leaving the hacienda. I had arranged it the day before...

On Friday morning, we decided to go to the Valle del Encanto, where there is a significant collection of petroglyphs (carvings in rocks)...

On Wednesday, the markets were crazy with everyone buying meat for their barbecues (asados) for the Dieciocho celebration. Everyone gets...

Yesterday, we packed up and left La Serena and headed to the small, mountain, mining town of Andacollo. We spent some time looking...

Cloudy Monday morning was spent casually wandering around La Serena’s streets, churches and markets. When the city was being built, the...

After one of the best sleeps that we’ve experienced in a long, long time we had breakfast and drove out of La Serena and headed due east...

Hola from the second oldest city in Chile! Just two blocks from downtown Plaza de Armas, the Hotel Londres is our home for the next...

Saturday morning we went to visit our friends, Brett and Nicki, at their new place in the mountains. Kirsi and I made a raspberry coffee...

It was one year ago today that we found out that one of our former students had passed away. Reto was such an energetic and charismatic...

We’ve been trying to get Kirsi to go to sleep on her own at bedtime for a few nights now. Last night was so tough – she was sooooo upset...

This afternoon we are invited to the birthday party of Caitlin and Nicolas, who will be turning two. When Kirsi heard that we were going...