My husband Luke and I live in Berdsk, Russia, with our three children, Christina (10), Katie (8) and Peter (3). Berdsk, a city of about 90,000, is a bedroom community for the large city of Novosibirsk. It does look like Christmas here. There is a foot or so of snow on the ground. This morning [...]

Yesterday morning we were greeted with the first snow of the season. Ouch! That was not what I was hoping for. Even for Russia, September 17th is a little early for winter to start. Luke took a couple pictures out our kitchen window. The temperature yesterday got down to 0.0 Celcius. Today it’s about 5 [...]