A change of scenery

We're off to Stefan's parents tomorrow. My mom hasn't been down to Bavaria while she's visited so she'll get to see something different...and some more of the family living in the area will get to meet Mack for the first time. There might be a bit more snow for Ayla...

Looks a bit American…

So my MIL & FIL were standing outside our house the other day and an older lady was walking by. She stopped to chat and mentioned that the decorations on the house looked really nice, "although they are a bit American. Not that that is a bad thing." We got a good...

Not exactly the Ritz

I haven't mentioned much about what things were like those four days while I was in the hospital; but mistake my lack of words up until this point as a sign that things weren't.  It was rather the opposite. Because I'm an expat and I am still not 100% fluent in...

That just won’t do

Mackenzie's US passport and birth certificate arrived today. Only one week for processing...talk about shocking! Unfortunately, they have the wrong date of birth on them...so we have to reboot and start again. I think it may actually have been my mistake because I...

Care packages of tastiness

Stefan had the pleasure of visiting the customs office today. Somehow he managed to get the customs agent to have mercy on him and he let him leave without paying anything. Stefan was doing his best to play dumb - it apparently worked. One of the magical packages that...

COLD heading our way!!!

All those in Germany or the vicinity, hope you've got all your warm clothes ready cause it's about to get frigid here! An Arctic blast is moving in our direction, supposed to be coming in today and tomorrow...and it's bringing SNOW! We rarely get snow in this area so...

One newspaper we’ll never read again

Wow. Now that was interesting. I'm sitting here on the couch. It's 7:45 pm and the phone rings. A woman from the Hanauer Anzeiger, a local newspaper in a neighboring city, is on the phone and wants to know how we enjoyed our free two-week subscription to the newspaper...

Don’t miss this chance to express your voice

"I've never seen you so excited about a piece of goverment mail before." Surprisingly enough, I really was quite excited when my absentee ballot arrived yesterday in the mail. For one, this is the first time in the 7 years that we've lived in Germany that I actually...

Why would they do that to these people?

We used to pay for satellite TV. And then we realized it really sucked. For about a year we actually had no TV at all...and it was fantastic. Of course for something like the Olympics we'd still consider hooking up the TV but the daily stuff is just bad. There are a...

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