First, a quick aside on yesterday's semi-ranty 5 favorites: if you had a natural childbirth, I don't hate you. I actually think you...

We had lived in Rome all of 3 weeks when Pope Benedict announced his intention to abdicate the papacy, setting in motion a frenzy of event...

We arrived in Italy late Thursday evening, rain falling lightly outside the airport terminal as Franco and Jacovich wheeled our mountain of ...

So we're here. 22 hours of travel. 3 glasses of wine. 1 horrific hour at Heathrow, during which I was stripped of my pride, dignity, a...

This is what packing for a global relocation for a family of four looks like: Flapping in anticipation of 14 hours in the air. Po...

Still alive, and still Stateside for the moment. We had a bit of a setback in visa land last week, but after examining all our options and t...

We are T-minus 4 days until we depart Denver and just a short week from leaving the States, and as our house continues to devolve into shant...

On a practical level, moving vast distances with children in tow has never in the history of humanity been easier. I am well aware of the fa...

Yesterday was an auspicious day in the Uebbing household, and by that I mean every member of the adult team got a shower. Also, we went fo...

(shudder) Can anyone utter or even think that phrase without hearing president smugbama sneering in their cranium? Moving on. When I said...

Linking up with Fine Linen and Purple again, even though Mass was an abysmal C- for one naughty 2 year old, and I didn't actually get p...

...Are often laid to waste by croupy babies, shrieking toddlers, and a house so filthy it can barely be recognized as 'indoors' as o...

Oh. So much to do. And yet...I've been spending hours just reading blogs, obsessively cleaning the bathroom (a losing battle with a po...