Here in our apartment in Berlin, we currently only have a limited number of plants growing. I’ve managed to keep a store-bought basil plant alive in our kitchen window for the last few weeks, which feels like a huge accomplishment since it seems that most...
Since we moved to Berlin just over 1 year ago (hard to believe it’s been that long already!) we’ve made it a point to go through one section of a closet, dresser or whatever once every two weeks to reduce our belongings. Recently, one of the things I have...
It’s full on summer this week in Berlin and that means it is H-O-T! Living in the heat never made much difference to me, until I moved to region where ice cubes are scare and air conditioning is even less prevalent. So one of this month’s favorites is...
When we first got this You Capture challenge, my first instinct was to go to the market. But as it turns out, we have a ton of fruit at home already. Fruit is always in very high demand in our house…and winter is no exception, although Mackenzie is more of a...
One of my favorite ways to get rid of extra stuff around the house when I was growing up was yard sales. Something about the simplicity of them just resonated with me. And although I know in retrospect that they’re not all the simple to host since you need some...