May 4, 2020
by Dy
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We live a charmed life in which friends and colleagues of ours live in magical places. Often the privilege of living in these beautiful places comes after living somewhere that is a bit of a more struggle to enjoy than … Continue reading
February 25, 2020
by Dy
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The last five months in the US have flown by. New home, new schools, new friends, new activities. Here is a quick over view of our August- December. We absolutely love our house. When we were looking at coming back … Continue reading
December 26, 2019
by Dy
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Ben and I were able to be Oliver’s Wolf Scout Leaders this year. It wasn’t how we planned to spend every Saturday but scouts is really important to our family and the boys enjoy it so. American style Cub or … Continue reading
December 22, 2019
by Dy
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Maine holds a special place in our heart. Ben and I met and began dating between our Junior and Senior years of high school (I should really do a post on that). We were still together after high school graduation … Continue reading
December 21, 2019
by Dy
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Spending much of July in upstate New York was a dream Lagos detox! So how did we end up in this glorious place? A great state department friend from Lagos listened to me whine for months about not wanting to … Continue reading
December 21, 2019
by Dy
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I was never going to do this post. It was just too hard. But while training at FSI this fall Ben and I were approached by a fan who reads our blog…yes there are a couple who aren’t family and … Continue reading
June 28, 2019
by Dy
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It was a busy spring.
April 16, 2019
by Dannica Gordon
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When we began discussing which performance we’d be doing this year, our choices where Mama Mia or Beauty and the Beast, and both of those were shot down. Mama Mia because there is a gay character and the mom doesn’t … Continue reading
July 20, 2018
by Ben
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We had gone dark for a while, in part because we were out of Nigeria on our R&R vacation to Denmark and the US. We told ourselves that we might make a blog post from the road, even said we’d … Continue reading
June 6, 2018
by Dy
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This post may seem pointless to many of my Foreign Service friends, but many people from the US have never lived over seas. Even fewer have lived in a developing country. I wasn’t prepared for how cluttered my house would … Continue reading