Everyone who has had children knows they grow at an alarming rate. Clothes that fit one day will no longer go over their head the next…or are an inch too short all the sudden. In addition to their growth rates, you also have to factor in the changing seasons, which here in Germany always come […]

I was tagged by Janet at The Queen of Seaford to play a 7 things meme. I haven’t been tagged in ages and I appreciate the honor. Now I just have to scrounge up 7 things about me that you don’t already know…not an easy feat since I talk about so much randomness every day. […]

Fall is setting in here in Frankfurt. The weather has cooled down a bit and it was raining a lot more last week. Been a bit overcast the last two days but no rain and I’m certainly not complaining. The fall weather has been absolutely glorious and I’m actually looking forward to the fire red, […]

I’ve briefly mentioned here and there that we have listed a whole bunch of stuff on eBay, but I figured I should tell you a little bit more about all our listings. We’ve lived here in Germany for 8 years now. It’s amazing how the time just seems to fly by (and it only seems […]

After Nico pulled all the ivy and whatever else was growing on the barn down, we started taking a look around the corner of the structure (which faces our neighbors and we can barely see) and noticed that one patch of plastered wall was about to fall out of the timber framing. Since we’re rarely […]