Our Life By The Mediterranean

After 18 months in the US, we came back to the Middle East in September, 2014. You can follow the adventures of our family on our new blog,...

My new passport never arrived in Beirut. But that’s OK, because I got a ten year multiple entries US VISA in my current passport, so I'...

I am here, we're great; in the middle of transferring to the US for a year - with a baby and three boys, right? - but otherwise fine! H...

Today I cleaned out our closets. When you move a lot, like we do, you can’t keep stuff. You can’t keep clothes you don’t wear, thinkin...

Submitting to my wonderful OBGYN’s hints that it was time for me to move on and bother another doctor recommendation to see a specialist...

I was a little nervous; about checking in, about going through passport control, about renting a car, getting to Nicosia, managing to pay ...

It’s one of those days where I find myself cleaning up after breakfast around 11 am – hours after anything was consumed - dead tired. How...

You are not hearing from me much, because this baby will not let me put him down. As soon as I place him anywhere – a chair, my bed, his ...

Last week our little baby’s passport was finally ready, and my husband went to pick it up. As soon as I had it in my hand, I purchased ti...

Sometime during my pregnancy it came to our attention that my husband’s junior research leave was coming up, and that we needed to make p...

You knew that eventually I would have to make this joke:  Having a baby is like being in a casino; you lose track of time and money. ...

I was actually starting to think that it would never happen, but by some miracle, over the past week and a half, we have managed to go fr...

A little over a year ago, as you might recall, I started changing my eating and exercise habits to lead a healthier and more energetic li...

As you know by now, we are total hippie parents: we practice exclusive breastfeeding, baby wearing, co-sleeping, etc. – all those annoying ...

Don’t get me wrong; although our baby’s preemie behavior sometimes worries me, I’m enjoying it to the fullest. The older boys so quickly ...