John and I recently took a two week Facebook hiatus. Originally, I don’t think either of us intended to return to Facebook for about a month, but during the two weeks we were absent from the social networking site, we achieved what we wanted through the hiatus. I don’t want…
Happy New Year everyone! Or, as the Germans say “Ich wünsche dir ein glückliches neues Jahr” and “Einen Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr 2011!” I hope you don’t mind a totally pregnancy-filled post. I have been meaning to post something like this for months, and now that I’m this far…
As 2010 comes to a close, I marvel at how much has happened in the past 12 months and how much is to come in 2011. I’ll keep this short. In fact, I think a list form is best, but before I go ahead with that, I have an announcement…
This year I set a goal for myself to read at least 6-8 books during 2010. Thanks to pregnancy, I made it to 9! There may be more that I read, too, but I honestly can’t remember any others than the ones I’ve listed below. The first 5 were all…
Although the Christmas markets have wrapped up for 2010 here in Germany, we have decided that we have not had our last Christmas market experience. John and I plan on hosting an annual Christmas party that is German Weihnachtsmarkt-themed. Hopefully we can pull it off with at least a good…
Before I begin, I want to shout from the rooftops that hallelujah, the days will start getting longer now! Today is the shortest day of the year. We will have 8 hours 10 minutes of daylight. (At the height of summer, the daylight/darkness is reversed. There’s about 16.5 hours of…