Ayla’s second birthday is coming up on February 23rd and when I was in the pet store the other day, I saw one of these dog learning games. I’ve seen them quite a few times before and always thought to myself it could be something interesting for Ayla since she’s so smart anyway (too smart […]

I got a forward today which is generally the points mentioned below, originally posted in 2006 by a man named Wade Meredith. I don’t generally believe too many things I get as forwards these days, so my first reaction was to verify it with Google. What I found was that there seems to be a […]

Being a Texas girl, I do not take the subject of chili lightly. I have very specific opinions about what should be in chili and its minimum heat requirements. We have been making chili pretty much since we moved here to Germany but hadn’t really found the “perfect” recipe yet – until last week. I […]

How do you know you’ve done WAY too much business with your trash container company?You receive a Christmas card from them! I was just taking down some Christmas cards hanging in our kitchen and had to laugh to myself. Sure, we had about 10 containers last year from them and the owners of the company […]

Here in Germany there is an increasing awareness of a problem among the youth of this country. In general, I guess this would include “kids” from 12-19, but the problem certainly begins at home. You may have heard about it in the news: here in Germany there are a large number of immigrants from countries […]