When women become moms, a lot of thing in their life changes. Everything else seems to take the back seat, as the family (and especially the children) now become the priority. You may think that being a wife and mom is an easy task when actually, it’s as demanding a...
I've written about how we've polished up our stroller and made it nice again in the past. Our old Baby Trends Expedition Jogger stroller has been through hell and back at least 3 times since we've had it...and considering that it was only about $100 (plus the insane...
The following guest post is written by Alison Solove, who lives in Silver Spring, MD. When she isn't busy chasing her toddler around the house, she blogs about being a better woman and wife at Experimental Wifery. On the eve of my son’s first birthday, I sat down and...
When people think of visiting Frankfurt, they generally have ideas of work in mind. For the most part, Frankfurt is not a place you'd travel to in Germany just to enjoy the city. But if you are living nearby, or do happen to find yourself in Frankfurt for a few days...
If you're a parent or a kid who still has many of those songs from your childhood emblazoned in your brain, you may be familiar with the song, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain". I actually had to go to Google to check out the song because I can't recall ever singing...
If you've never seen a 3-year-old taking over your iPad and showing you how to actually navigate through the apps better than you do, then you are missing out. I think that in some ways, the iPad was developed to be the most easy to operate computer-like object on the...
You no doubt noticed the frequency and perhaps even the increased urgency around our house lately when it comes to getting rid of things. What you may not know is that we have now been living in Germany for almost 10 years. Yep, as of July 28th, 2012, Stefan will have...
This is an updated post from January 2012. I wanted to share it again, because after using Evernote to organize recipes for the last few months, I've learned a few new tricks! Plus I think my new friends from the William Morris Project could really benefit from this...
About a year ago, I hosted the Made in Germany giveaway here in NOH. It was a pretty huge event with tons of cool prizes, and one of them was from the German firm, kiddy, which makes the car seat that saved Mack's life and some really cool strollers. So when the...
Although Mackenzie has been out of the "baby stages" for quite a long while now, our move caused us to find and go through a bunch of Mackenzie's baby things -- and I realized I never really put together a list of my favorite baby things that turned out to be...
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