Here are our families numbers (per family member) from 2013:
21,082.72 miles traveled by plane
7,500ish pounds of stuff we sent from Yaounde to Manila
$5,000 worth of stuff sold before leaving Cameroon… yes, thinking we’d be in a tiny apartment, we sold ALL our furniture
1,096 miles traveled by train
700ish pounds of our stuff we sent from DC to Manila
200ish miles traveled by boat
18 beds slept in
18 cities visited (5 of those were country capitals)
16 times we packed and unpacked 8 suitcases
13.1 miles ran in Paris in 2.5 hours
10 visitors hosted (6 in DC and 4 in Manila)
8 flights
8 births missed
7th wedding anniversary
6 months of traveling between posts
5 countries lived in while living out of our suitcases between tours
4 continents visited
3 oceans swam in
3rd State Department Anniversary
3rd Birthday of our Sweet Little Girl
2 countries lived in with all of our belongings
2nd tour started
1st Birthday of our Amazing Little Man
1st Day of Preschool
1 car shipped from DC to Manila
1 amazing family to enjoy this life with
A Diplomat's Wife 
I have enjoyed reading your blog as I am the daughter of a career US diplomat and I left the US at the age of five and returned after I graduated from high school to begin college in the US. We would come back occasionally in the summer for home leave, but otherwise I was “out” for the majority of my childhood. I would not have traded that experience for anything. My dad is now 82 and has been retired for many years and a few years ago was lamenting to me while I visiting him that he was sorry to not have given my siblings and I a real home while we were children. I told him while he might not have given me a traditional “home”, he gave me the world…which I think is priceless!
Thank you for sharing your super sweet story! This is encouraging.