Merry Christmas
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones and all the best for the new year!… Read more
Category: family
Good times.
Finally, I have a few minutes (before heading to bed) to give you a quick update. I don’t even know where to start. I am so happy to be here. J and I arrived safely on Wednesday morning. The flights were smooth and time went by quickly. We even managed...
We made it!
We’re home with my family after two very pleasant, uneventful domestic and transatlantic flights, a slighty delayed connection to DUS and a missing piece of luggage upon arrival. Hmpf. But don’t you worry – it was just left behind in Paris and was finally delivered to my parent’s doorstep around...
“Erntedankfest” is not Thanksgiving
Even though those two German and US “holidays” are loosely connected, they’re not the same. “Erntedankfest” means Harvest Thanksgiving Festival which is usually “celebrated” on the first weekend in October. I put “celebrated” in quotation mark because in no way, shape or form is “Erntedankfest” a real holiday with a...
The holidays, and with that I mean Christmas
So, Christmas is only a month, 4 weeks and 1 days, away and here I am, all excited about the opportunity to celebrate Christmas with my family. There is nothing in the world that I want to do more for the holidays… and yet, I keep coming across people – online...
Greta, one month old
Since it’s going to be SPF (Stuff Portrait Friday) tomorrow, I decided to post the 1-month-birthday-post for my little niece Greta a day early! I can’t believe it’s been a month since I became an aunt. It still is such a new and incredible feeling. Greta is doing well and...
I’m in love…
… and this is why: Finally a picture of my sister and my new little niece and godchild-to-be. Isn’t she just the cutest, and I mean THE CUTEST little thing? :)… Read more
I am an aunt!
The waiting is over – today my sister became a Mom! A Mom to a beautiful baby girl. This is so overwhelming and at the same time so freakin’ unfair that I can’t be with her and share in the arrival of our new family member. Greta was born healthy...