I promise I won’t keep posting about cleaning, but yesterday’s post reminded me of what we did last week: clean out our closets. Since I moved across the ocean just over a year ago, I thought I had weeded through my wardrobe fairly well. Wrong. I was able to rid my…
I’m not ready for Monday. John’s not ready for Monday. Béni isn’t ready for Monday. (He’s been extra cuddly today, which leads me to believe he’d rather Mom & Dad were at home with him than trapped under flourescent lights at work.) After having our wonderful weekend get away just…
It’s more like Sweet Home Texas, and by home, I mean… (are you ready for our big news?!) land! That’s right, we’re property owners! We have been wanting to post this since our trip to Texas, but we wanted to be sure everything went through first. We made our first…
A week or two ago, when I started recounting our trip to the States, I mentioned that there weren’t really any good surprises upon returning to Germany. It’s finally time for me to write about all of that. We were so excited to get home and pick Béni up from…
It’s not quite that fall-ish yet, but it’s close. We left Germany on August 5th and felt like the truly hot weather was just beginning. Summer was in full swing. We returned on August 22nd and it was fall. There are yellow leaves all over the ground. When I wake up in…
Oh my? Whenever I list three things like that, I feel the need to say it in the spirit of The Wizard of Oz. We’re rounding out our posts on our August trip to the States. Our last stop was Rochester, Minnesota, where John’s sister, brother-in-law and our niece live.…