Back to the farm

by | Nov 17, 2007 | Decorating, Homesteading Life, Thanksgiving

We’ve been on vacation for the last week and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. No vacation can be completely without mishaps and ours certainly wasn’t. Before we left last Thursday, we found out that a storm was hitting the coast of Holland where we were...

Our lantern festival – Sunday night

by | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertaining, Expat Life, Travel

Because of our housewarming party, we didn’t get to attend the festival on Saturday night. Some of our guests did go down to see the parade pass through though, which actually lasted about 2 hours and featured 25 organizations and 7 marching bands. The all came...

Cleaning up after the party

by | Aug 7, 2007 | Entertaining

Make no mistake – throwing a party at your home is a massive undertaking! The more people you have, the more chaos may ensue. But if you have some friends and family you can trust who are glutton enough to volunteer to help you during the event – accept...

The housewarming party

by | Aug 6, 2007 | Entertaining

We had our housewarming party here on Saturday night and although it was a lot of fun, we’re both happy to have it behind us now. We ended up with about 50 guests and around 15 children ranging in age from a few weeks to 5 years old. Nearly everyone who said...

That’s a lot of chili

by | Jul 27, 2007 | Entertaining, Expat Life

With just over a week to go to our housewarming party, I am now in full speed ahead mode to get things accomplished around here. This morning I replanted our fig tree so that it has some space to grow finally and will retain a bit of water. I’ve moved it into...

Party planning & our food line-up

by | Jul 23, 2007 | Entertaining, Featured, Food

We’ve mentioned several times that we will be having a relatively large housewarming party which has had us a bit concerned and almost overwhelmed at times…but we are slowly but surely figuring it all out. Last Thursday we finally sat down and mapped out...