Pregnancy is full of milestones: getting a positive pregnancy test, seeing the tiny flicker of your baby’s heartbeat, sharing the news with family and friends, completing the first trimester, feeling the first flutters that eventually turn to kicks, finding out your baby’s gender. I have passed all these milestones so…
In about 21 hours, I will be sitting down to a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with my husband and some great friends we’ve made here in Germany. It’s bittersweet to be hitting our last holiday season here, but I also think it’s the year we have been the most thankful. Most…
I don’t have anything one particular thing to say that could constitute an entire post, but my thoughts today are much longer than “quick takes,” so now, you just get a collection of mini-posts. Acclimatization or lack thereof is a funny thing. We have people from our office stateside working here…
I tried to think of a clever title, but then all I could think of was “pop, lock it, drop it,” which conjured up images of Monkey dropping and being born already, and I don’t want to think about that. I also had “Pop” by N’Sync in my head (I can’t…
I had the “pleasure” of shopping for maternity clothes while we were home a few weeks ago. My number one mission was to find a dress to wear to my good friend Morgan’s wedding. Unless I wanted to shell out $200+ for a dress I’d likely only wear once, I…
We’re back, and we’re jet lagged. It was a great trip home, but we spent nearly every waking hour on a schedule. I think we probably had 3-4 hours total in the 10 day trip that didn’t have to be spent doing specific things. Needless to say, we spent the…