It's an exciting day here. The sun is shining, it's already close to 60 degrees and it's shaping up to be an absolutely beautiful day. There are about a thousand projects I would love to be outside doing today, namely digging up weeds in the garden. But that's just...
After throwing around a few ideas that we have for our garden, we've decided we definitely need to get our butts in gear. It's starting to be a bit warmer during the day, and we've had lots of wonderful sunshine. We've got seeds to plant, a greenhouse to recover, an...
Our little Mad Hatter, Mackenzie, is at a stage where she LOVES to help us do anything and everything she possibly can...but it can be a little bit challenging to find tasks that a 2-year-old can complete in the kitchen without making a mess or burning down the house....
I know that not all places in Germany are as unfriendly to shoppers as they are in Hessen, but one thing I am not a big fan of is being looked at like a crazy person when I go stand in line somewhere because I have a shopping cart full of stuff. The typical way of...
Dearest friends, Today I am celebrating my fifth birthday. In dog years, that means I'm now 35! I've already found my first gray hairs and become quite calm and subdued (versus my previous crazy puppy days of chewing up stairs and jumping in bushes). I do still...
Because we're living in Germany, getting mail from America is not always as easy or quick as it may seem. We decided several years ago that having a box at a mail forwarding company would be a very wise choice, even though it can get costly. But when we have the urge...
Ah, Valentine's Day. One of the most loved and most hated days of the year. I remember lots of Valentine's Day celebrations at school when I was just a kid. Those days when you were supposed to bring a little tear-apart card for everyone in your class...but...
At 2:15 this morning, Stefan and I both sat upright in bed and asked, "What the hell was that?" The sound of crushing, twisting metal on the street below our bedroom window was unmistakable. But we never could have anticipated what the situation would look like when...
Don't miss your chance to win a Venereous Shaving Trio! It's the ultimate way for a woman to pamper herself while shaving. You'll never want to go back to regular old shaving cream. Happy Woof Wednesday, everyone! I had the best day yesterday, and not only got a super...
This past Tuesday, I had the absolute pleasure of visiting the headquarters of kiddy GmbH in Hof, Bavaria. I've mentioned a few times that their great car seats did wonders to protect Mackenzie in our crash last year...but I never could have anticipated that the...
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