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Thanksgiving, Expat style

November 25, 2007

Our Thanksgiving party was a roaring success.  We had 24 guests, pretty evenly split between German speakers and English speakers.  Charlie was a hit with the kids and surprisingly well-behaved.  I’m not worried at all anymore about him interacting with Oliver when Oliver’s a little older. There were several expat bloggers in attendance, all of [...]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

November 16, 2007

In mid November? Our garden, yesterday Yep, that’s right, winter came early to Bavaria this year.  It’s been snowing for the past week.  A lot of it melts during the day, but we’ve definitely got a whole Christmas vibe going here in south Germany (helped along by all the Lebkuchen and Stollen which have been [...]

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Happy 4th!

July 4, 2007

Happy 4th of July to all the Americans out there! I heard on the news today that there are 500,000 people expected to attend the fireworks in DC today. We went once when I was in college (when we were kids my dad preferred setting off illegal fireworks in the backyard), and if I remember [...]

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

June 30, 2007

I really don’t have very much interesting to say today, but Rainer tells me that it’s been two days with no new blog entries and that’s just no good! The nesting thing seems to have been a false alarm. I spent the last few days sleeping (post-cleaning exhaustion, I think) and not having bad contractions [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

May 13, 2007

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, especially my own (and my awesome mother-in-law too). For more of my thoughts on my mom today, check out the Mother’s Day post on my genealogy blog. My mom and my mother-in-law Hildegard in Berlin

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Who’s your momma?

May 7, 2007

Mother’s Day is fast approaching (it’s this Sunday, May 13th, in the US, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; my Brit readers celebrated -or didn’t- back on March 18). I find it interesting that there isn’t a backlash towards Mother’s Day as there is towards Valentine’s Day, although I find that both are very commercialized and in [...]

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All Blogged Out

April 7, 2007

Hey folks, we’ve been back since Tuesday evening, but I just haven’t been much in the mood for blogging this week. And it’s not that I don’t have things to write about, cause I have a nice post on Heidelberg with a couple Geheimtipps fully formed in my brain, I just have no desire to [...]

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