Last Saturday was an unheard of event for us. We went to 4 different stores in one day, crossing a variety of things off our shopping lists. This may not sound like much of a feat but my husband is not a shopper. He would usually rather die than go into 4 different stores in […]

“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 get to vote absentee…because last time around, […]

I need to distract myself in order to not vent yet again on the stupidity of people as I try to deal with some issues for our website, so I am going to write about the super cool catalog we got yesterday in the mail with baby & kid stuff in it. Otherwise I might […]

Last Saturday after Stefan’s parents headed home, we got the chance to go tour our neighbor’s beautiful timber frame (“fachwerk”) house. We have been trying and meaning to get over there for months, after finally speaking to the owner for the first time many months ago while out walking Ayla. He told us then to […]

It’s sperrmüll time again here and that means there are piles of junk on every street corner in our town, along with tons of white panel vans with Polish license plates cruising around. The vans started appearing on Saturday morning already, waiting with anticipation as people put things out over the weekend. It’s incredible to […]