Why haven’t I been blogging much? Because I’ve become obsessed with decorating my house. Today, I’m ready to show you all our guest room. We didn’t really have anything in the...
You can imagine my surprise when I spotted this in the dairy section of my nearby Real supermarket: Yep, that’s grated cheddar! Not only that, over Christmas, in the baking aisle, there was rea...
When we bought our house, we knew we wanted to renovate the guest bathroom. Our wish was to update all the bathrooms, but a full bathroom renovation is very expensive, and we could only afford to ren...
The editors over at Apartment Therapy ohdeedoh have selected Oliver and Leo’s room as Entry #1 in their Small Kids, Big Color Contest. Voting on our entry ends Thursday, November 17, at 11am ES...
The room we chose for the kids was the previous owner’s home office. Here’s the before: and here’s the after: The color scheme was mostly decided on by Oliver. He wanted a blue ro...
It’s been 10 years and I still miss you, daddy, every single day. I miss our long talks. My dad was my best friend. He was an avid gardener and loved clematises, planting them wherever he coul...
Some gory zombie fun from my favorite German band. Junge (Boy) Junge, warum hast du nichts gelernt? Boy, why haven’t you learned anything? Guck dir den Dieter an, der hat sogar ein Auto. Look a...
This is the view I enjoyed with my coffee (the view when I woke was pitch black, as the kids decided 6:30 was a good time to get up). 7:30am 7:50am 8:15am 10:00am Is it just me, or are the leaves not...
When we first saw our house, we loved everything about it except this room. We knew that this room had to be renovated. We just couldn’t live with baby poop yellow wall tile. A few thousand Eu...
I still remember it vividly. Turning on the television on the morning of September 11 and watching live as a second plane hit the Twin Towers. I sat stunned, unable to turn away, then I called my b...
I don’t get what’s going on in American politics anymore (and apologies in advance for the rant, they seem to be going around recently. I don’t get the rise of the Tea Party. I don...
It’s been awhile! In the meantime, we bought and moved into a house here in Germany. Unpacking and decorating takes a lot of time, which hasn’t left much for anything else. Figured I̵...
And this isn’t about the lack of speed limits (and in case you’ve never been to Germany, there are speed limits on a large proportion of the Autobahn, so it’s not as exciting to dri...
The discussion for the location of the Whiny Expat Bloggers Meet Up 2011 has begun! This is a wild meet up of English language expat bloggers that takes place in a different German city every year. ...
If you’ve got kids in preschool, you know what I’ve been going through this winter, one family member after another getting sick. Today is a rare day where no one has a cold (woohoo!), a...
Something expat and immigrant parents face, is raising their child in a culture that is different from their own. I’ve been thinking a lot about how things will be different here for my childr...
My annual review post is a bit late, but better late than never, I figure. My posting this last year was limited due to being sick my whole pregnancy, then having very little time due to the men in ...
We’ve had a pretty unusual amount of snow this December here in the Oberpfalz, and while I was grumbling about the chaotic roads and difficulty getting about, a friend on Facebook reminded me t...
I read a Japanese proverb about friendships a little while back and it got me thinking about making friends as an expat in Germany. It said something along the lines of, if you are a flower, you wil...
10 October 2010 The beautiful fall weather inspired us to get out of the house today to take in the foliage (and you guys inspired me to try to get back in the habit of posting). Here are some of my...
I’ve been trying to decide what I want to do with this blog (and my life) over the last few weeks. I’ll oscillate between wanting to quit blogging (actually, I was in this state most of t...
Older German friend: Leo hat Durst Oliver: Leo isst von Mamas Booby Older German friend: Ja, Leo ist Mamas Bubi Oliver: Ich habe auch Boobies Older German friend: Ja, du bist auch Mamas Bubi Oliver (...
The boys I finally caught a smile on camera And these delicious chocolate chip pecan blondies with white chocolate drizzle were almost as good as the blueberry crumble bars I made the other day Olive...
Amazon.com is now offering their all new Kindle devices for pre-order. The new Kindle and Kindle DX are smaller than previous versions, have higher contrast to make reading easier, and the Kindle in...
I’ve decided that you guys are right, I should take an official break, cause otherwise I’m always thinking that I should try to write something and that puts a small amount of stress on m...
Leo is one month old today. Life as a family of four is wonderful, but also extremely time consuming. Over the last three weeks, part of me has been feeling fairly strongly that I want to give up b...
Leo turns two weeks old today and these last two weeks have been quite a roller coaster. The second induction went smoothly and within a few hours, I was in labor. Thirty hours after I started gett...
In case you don’t follow the blog on Facebook or Twitter, I was in the hospital last week for an induction but it didn’t work. I’m still pregnant, still nauseous, and the weather h...
It’s been a really stressful week here. My symptoms have gotten worse and Oliver has been sick with a virus and conjunctivitis (pink eye). Luckily, Oliver seems pretty much recovered today an...
No real change in how I’ve been feeling (pretty lousy), except you can add killer heartburn that often keeps me up half the night to my symptoms. The plan is still that I’ll be induced i...
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