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Weekly Winners – 4 January 2009

January 4, 2009

December 28, 2008 – January 3, 2009

This week I made a super delicious Cheesy Beer Dip to bring to a neighbor’s holiday party. It was extremely well-received and my husband deemed it Germanized fondue.

Bellybutton!

Self-portrait

Watching the fireworks on New Years Eve

Fireworks

My little handyman

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Buying Baby Stuff in Deutschland

September 30, 2007

Here’s a list of websites that are either in Germany or will ship baby stuff to Germany. I’ve put an asterisk behind websites that I’ve used and been happy with (*=ordered once, **=twice, ***=three or more times). As I come across new sites, I will update this list. See also a related post, Buying Maternity [...]

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American food and cooking substitutes

May 31, 2007

Finding product replacements for your favorite foods and snacks is always tough for new expats (and occasionally some of us more experienced expats as well)! Here’s my attempt to help out and I have to admit, I learned quite a bit in my research for this post.
Baking

Baking Powder – Most North American baking powder is [...]

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Insurance woes

October 20, 2006

Depression strikes. Nothing is going my way. Blah blah blah blah blah…
We spent three hours meeting with some private health insurance guy last night only to be told that I am probably too high risk to be insured with them (back problems, migraines, birthing of future little people, longer life expectancy for females, etc = [...]

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