Dear friends, I'm sure you know how difficult it can be to get settled in at a new place. And while I thought I had surely found all the best places in the apartment to stretch out (in front of the fridge, next to the couch where I can rearrange the plants, blocking...
It's hard to imagine that we have now been in Berlin for 3 whole months. In some ways, it feels like we've always been here and don't know how we never managed to live anywhere else. And in other ways, it's strange to think that we were so settled into a far more...
Yesterday I decided it was time to bring my plants in from the balcony. Since everything we have here with us is in pots, it's a pretty simple process. Well, actually, I left the strawberries outside for now because we're about to have a really nice warm front for the...
What I have wanted to post about for the last few weeks is this little box, which I commandeered after the move to be my new aromatherapy kit which would house a majority of my essential oils. The problem is that the bottles are a bit too tall and the tray which fits...
We are more than half way into our training plan toward our first 5k, with less than 2 weeks to go until the race (on Saturday, October 27th) and I have to say that so far, we've made some great progress. When we started just a couple of weeks ago, even the thought of...
I don't know if fall has arrived where you are, but here in Berlin the leaves are dropping like crazy and it's getting downright cold in the evenings. Mackenzie keeps asking when it's going to start snowing...and while I know it's not likely to be tomorrow, I'm sure...
This past Sunday was the marathon in Berlin, and since Stefan had a few friends running in it, we went out to cheer them on. One in particular, Timo, is a really nice guy and an amazing runner who definitely falls into the professional category. But to be honest, his...
Sunflowers are a favorite of many gardeners and flower lovers alike. I love how they are able to dominate a space in a garden and fill it with color when many other flowers are starting to fall away. Sunflowers are extremely easy to grow and in fact, I plant to do...
A few years ago, if someone had told me that I could clean my home with just vinegar and baking soda, I would have laughed. (Click here if you missed the post about cleaning with baking soda.)And yet, here I am telling you that you can do exactly that! Plain old,...
Have you ever popped in at your favorite website or blog one day to find EVERYTHING has changed? You might have been really enthused about the changes, or you might have been really turned off -- but whatever the case, there was probably no going back once the new...
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