Tonight, we celebrated German New Year’s Eve with the kids, which means, we drank sparkling cider at 6pm and the kids watched streaming video of the Brandenburg Gate while we scrambled to finish up dinner and keep the baby out of the dishwasher. Tony found old video of our actual German New Year, seventeen years […]
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The New Year
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
One of those days
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2013 | 4 Comments »
I have a beautiful day to look forward to tomorrow, including time with a friend who offered to bring lunch. I was expecting something simple, but considering that all of the mama meals this friend has brought us after the birth of our last three babies have become staples at this house, I should have […]
The End of Preschool
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2013 | 8 Comments »
I remember when he first started. He’d just turned three, and we had just moved into the city. He felt so little to me to be sending him away for part of his day. But then we visited, and the director of the school crouched down to his eye level and spoke to him gently, […]
His Puppy
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
From a year and a half ago, when my sweet boy was just a few months past his fourth birthday, instead of less than two months from his sixth: We went to the shelter today and there, in one of the cages, was a tiny pit bull puppy named Cyclone. He had a big […]
Purple
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
From a year ago: The Purple Lady was the kind of famous only crazy people get to be. I’d look for signs of her as we neared my grandparents’ town — electric poles painted purple as high as she could reach. I never saw her, and in those days I didn’t think she was crazy. […]
Can you see it?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2013 | 2 Comments »
I remember as a child, riding on the train through the mountains near our town in Germany. There, up high on a mountain above the train, stood a statue of a stag. The statue wasn’t visible long, just for a moment, and I can still remember the wail of devastation when our friend’s little boy […]
Sidelong Glances
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know why I’ve been feeling the passage of time so acutely lately. Maybe because of this baby, probably my last, growing by such leaps and bounds. We watched some old episodes of Homicide this week, and I was stunned by how dated and old they felt, not like when I’d watched them with […]
Deserving
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2013 | 3 Comments »
We took a walk around the neighborhood the other night, something we always intend to do more often, as we intend to wander the forest paths that beckon right outside our front door. We’re working on making these walks a priority. Everyone loves them, we all feel better when we arrive home than we did […]
More on Freiburg
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2013 | 2 Comments »
I feel very honored to be included in MaryAnne’s World Culture for Kids series over on her blog Mama Smiles. Here’s my post about Freiburg, but be sure to check out the other great posts in the World Culture for Kids series, as well as the rest of MaryAnne’s thoughtful and inspiring posts on joyful […]
Copper Pennies
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2013 | 1 Comment »
We arrived late, as we should have expected. Google maps could factor in traffic delays, but we should have accounted for traveling with two small children and a baby. The staff was gone for the day, but they had left our key in the wooden box nailed to the front of the red education building. […]