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Still Daddy’s Girl

November 2, 2011

It’s been 10 years and I still miss you, daddy, every single day. I miss our long talks. My dad was my best friend.  He was an avid gardener and loved clematises, planting them wherever he could. Now that I have a garden of my own, I’ve planted three clematises so far.  Every time I [...]

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Q&A: Reverse Culture Shock

May 28, 2010

It’s been a really stressful week here.  My symptoms have gotten worse and Oliver has been sick with a virus and conjunctivitis (pink eye).  Luckily, Oliver seems pretty much recovered today and I’m going to be induced next week, so hopefully by next Friday, I should feel better and we should have a new addition [...]

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Back to Deutschland

February 1, 2010

After a long, arduous odyssey, Oliver and I have made it back to Germany.  Our flight boarding was delayed in Washington an hour, then we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours waiting to get deiced because of the snowstorm.  We missed our connection in Amsterdam and had to wait 6 hours for the next [...]

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Coming Home

December 31, 2009

Returning to the US has been a little different this time around.  Because of my illness (hyperemesis gravidarum), I was incredibly homesick, something I haven’t been since moving to the Regensburg area three years ago.  Despite the doctors in the hospital thinking I should stay longer, I needed to come home (my ob/gyn agreed to [...]

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Weekly Winners – Leuven, Belgium – 20 Sept 2009

September 20, 2009

6-19 Sept, 2009 Last week, we spent the weekend and a couple more days with my in-laws over in the Eifel region of Germany.  During the visit, we took a day trip to Leuven, Belgium: Cathedral Lanterns City Hall Fountain Botanical gardens Jester Enjoying a Belgian waffle in Belgium Pastries, galore! Bus stop It’s hard [...]

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Weekly Winners – Wide Angles – 24 May 2009

May 24, 2009

May 17-23, 2009 I was pretty busy this week and hadn’t snapped any photos, until yesterday when the new wide angle lens for my trusty, old, Canon Powershot A95 arrived (I decided to go this route instead of purchasing a DSLR, maybe I can upgrade to one of those in a couple years). Altdorfer Platz [...]

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Weekly Winners – 28 December 2008

December 28, 2008

December 21 – December 27, 2008 It’s the last Weekly Winners of 2008! We had a busy holiday week with a lot of traveling. On the way to see Oma and Opa, we stopped at Bad Dürkheim And just happened to drive through the town of Frankenstein Where we saw the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle [...]

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