It's a bit hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. But when you look around in shop windows and sales fliers, there is no denying that the advent season is upon us. Two weekends ago, we heard about a small local hobby market that was offering wreaths...
Stefan and I have talked about sending Christmas cards to our family and friends nearly every year that we've celebrated Christmas together. And some years we came very close. A few years we managed to write a Christmas letter and send it out via email...but that was...
Preparing for an event as massive as Thanksgiving requires some dedication and planning. Whether you are going to prepare your food completely from scratch or only partially, you need to make sure you have enough time to get it all done and consider how many dishes...
Alright, I intended to post these yesterday...but well, there just wasn't time. So you get them as a dose of Friday fun instead! These were all shot during the Saturday night parade here in our village. It's always a great time and there was a really nice turnout this...
This year our Lantern Fest celebration was a bit more subdued than in other years. We didn't have as many people visiting and we just weren't as excited as usual about the festivities leading up to the weekend...but we did still manage to have a lot of fun. And it's...
We just finished a nice family dinner of grilled cheese with tomato soup and watched a round of Dinner for One. It's a must watch on New Year's Eve here in Germany. It's funny year after year and you'll find it playing on at least one TV station every hour until...
Hello my dear furry friends! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and got lots of fun and yummy treats from your family this year! Or were you a bad dog who only ended up with a lump of coal under the tree? To tell you the truth, I would be just as excited about the...
Our resolutions for 2009 included a somewhat short list of projects. Getting our garden in order so we can grow almost all of produce Renovate and expand Stefan’s workshop in the barn so we can not only find things but also have a place to use his tools Clean up our...
This was by far the most hectic, unorganized Christmas I've had in a long while. Let me state now that one of my resolutions for 2010 is to have things together long before Christmas eve in 2010 so I'm not ready to pull my hair out when I should be enjoying this...
Congratulations to Shannon Boyer & her son Braydon who are the winners of the No Ordinary Homestead toy giveaway! Please contact me at [email protected] with your mailing address to claim your prize. Merry Christmas and I hope you're all having a...
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