Chatham light

This ornament always makes me smile. And especially this year. Kolya and Dasha will be experiencing their first Christmas in America — and they’ll be in Chatham! Does it get any better? Jamie and Dasha will be there for several days, I think. And Jeanne and Kolya will be driving [...]

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Jamie and Dasha

Jamie and Dasha arrived at the beginning of the month and spent a few days in Kyiv before heading south to Crimea for 10 days or so. They returned to the city yesterday evening (12-hour drive) and are now trying to fit so many things into a couple of days. They fly out [...]

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They’re back!

Yesterday, Jamie and Dasha arrived back in Ukraine for the first time since they moved to Boston in January. Though we had seen them on our trip to the States in March/April, Dasha’s family and their friends were so looking forward to this moment. You can imagine how disappointed we all were when [...]

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Boston night life

Dinner out and a concert. Fun, fun.
Jamie, Dasha, Jim and I stopped into an empty little pub near Berklee College of Music and thoroughly enjoyed some delicious salads, nachos and buffalo chicken tenders. I was a bit surprised that the tenders weren’t served with bleu cheese dressing, but the BBQ as the side [...]

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Everywhere snow!

Jamie and Dasha sent us a few pictures that they have taken since arriving in the States. I think they’re seeing more snow in Massachusetts than we’ve seen in Kyiv! (And definitely more than Mae is seeing in Salisbury…)
Their first weekend allowed a few moments of simply relaxing…there really was nothing that they [...]

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They’re off!

Yesterday was Christmas in Ukraine per the Orthodox calendar. And Dasha’s parents invited Jim and me as well as a few other family members and close friends for a Christmas dinner. On this day, Dasha’s mother had returned home from visiting her son Andriy and his wife and their sweet baby daughter in [...]

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That time of year — Day 12-16

Okay. Things have been a little crazy here. And I am just not getting around to getting the pictures off of the camera and onto the blog. My dear Anna has let it be known that she misses these daily entries, so I’ll try to do better!
Day 12: We have collected [...]

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What? No internet?

I tell you…I finally get myself all ready to post each day, and our internet goes out! Last night, after HOURS of no internet, a notice appears on my screen that our account had been blocked. I needed to go to our account (I could go online ONLY to that site!), enter our [...]

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Drum roll, please

I know that many of you have been praying with us that Jamie might be accepted at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He and Dasha spent a couple of weeks on Cape Cod to coincide with his audition date in early August, and we have all been anxiously awaiting the news. Berklee [...]

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Passport?

What a beginning to a wonderful trip! Jim and I are supposed to be heading to Austria for an International Christian Medical-Dental Association meeting. We have been thinking about this trip, looking forward to getting away together, dealing with all kinds of crazy schedules over the past few weeks just KNOWING that this [...]

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