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Weekly Winners – Fall hiking

October 10, 2010

10 October 2010 The beautiful fall weather inspired us to get out of the house today to take in the foliage (and you guys inspired me to try to get back in the habit of posting).  Here are some of my favorite shots: Oliver Stopping in Parsberg for some coffee and ice cream (the ice [...]

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Fun with Bayrisch

September 3, 2010

Older German friend: Leo hat Durst Oliver: Leo isst von Mamas Booby Older German friend: Ja, Leo ist Mamas Bubi Oliver: Ich habe auch Boobies Older German friend: Ja, du bist auch Mamas Bubi Oliver (pointing at German friend’s boobs): Du hast auch Boobies Older German friend: Ja, aber meine Bubis sind jetzt sehr gross [...]

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Bits and Pieces

July 20, 2010

I’ve decided that you guys are right, I should take an official break, cause otherwise I’m always thinking that I should try to write something and that puts a small amount of stress on my shoulders that I can do without at the moment.  But, I don’t think I want to give up blogging completely [...]

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Announcing Leo Quincy!

June 26, 2010

Leo turns two weeks old today and these last two weeks have been quite a roller coaster. The second induction went smoothly and within a few hours, I was in labor.  Thirty  hours after I started getting contractions, Leo was born, weighing in at 4510 grams (almost 9 lbs, 15 oz). He wasn’t breathing at [...]

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Q&A: Learning German and Raising a Bilingual Child

April 25, 2010

Last week, I asked readers for questions.  I decided to split up the answers into several posts.  This one addresses language related questions. Maria Guzenko wrote: You’ve mentioned you are fluent in German. Do you still have much of an accent? Was much attention paid to pronunciation in your German class? Do you feel it’s [...]

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Weekly Winnners – April Fools’ 2010

April 1, 2010

February 12 – March 31, 2010 I was never any good at making up even halfway decent April Fools’ Day jokes, so I’ll leave that to the creative geniuses at Wikipedia, Google UK, Starbucks, and ThinkGeek (love the Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock), instead, here are some of my favorite photos from the last month and [...]

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Weekly Winners – January to mid-February

February 11, 2010

January 1 – February 11, 2010 So, unlike I’d been hoping, things have not improved greatly healthwise.  Nausea is under control with medication, but it’s still there, so it seems I’m one of those lucky few ladies who suffers from HG through their whole pregnancy.  This sucks. The nausea and exhaustion have left me with [...]

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