I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! Today is “Not Me!” Monday, a chance for everyone to be brutally honest about what they have not been doing this week. Normally, you can also head over to My Charming Kids to see what MckMama and others have not been up to…
Some random thoughts: It’s back to chilly, rainy, gray Germany, and I’m actually glad! We really needed some rain because we hadn’t gotten any since mid-March, and I was also getting a bit hot during the day even though we bought an a/c. Today is John’s step dad’s birthday. Happy…
I’m at a loss for what to write today. I blame it on all the creativity being sucked from my brain by writing these papers these past few weeks. Since I’m drawing a blank, I’ll just stick with “Hi/Lo Thursday,” which is a blog carnival from the Riggs Family Blog.…
Because I have spent the day procrastinating instead of getting past page 1 on my cultural diversity paper, I don’t really have time for an update. However, I do have some fun snapshots I took (some just from the car) this weekend in sunny springtime Germany. Seriously, I have been…
How many of you know about clicker training? John introduced me to clicker training for dogs, and we have been using it with Béni. The basic idea is that you use a clicker to click at the exact moment when they do a desirable behavior during training and then you…
God Påske! Frohe Ostern! Happy Easter! This morning, I woke up thinking of the hymn we would sing almost every Easter morning when I was growing up in the Episcopal Church. It’s called He is Risen, He is Risen, and I think the lyrics are really great: He is risen,…