Today is my great-aunt’s birthday. She would have turned 91. It’s hard to accept that I won’t be able talk to her today. In a way, since I’ve lived so far away form her for so many years already, she’s still over there somehow. This morning, I remembered the pashmina scarf. It...
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When I was perusing the Antique stores last weekend, I came across a set of china which kind of stopped me in my tracks, because it was so familiar to me. This is the china that I will have inherited from my great-aunt. A full dinner and coffee set, that...
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Yeah, I know, I know what you’re about to say: “It’s March, for Peet’s sake”, and here I am talking about celebrating this new year, but I have some photos to share and memories to eternalize, so you can’t stop me. We all gathered at my parents’ house and spent a...
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Christmas. Mmh. Christmas seems incredibly far away now. It’s been well a over a month. I feel silly writing a recap about Christmas being so far into 2013 already, but it must be done. To satisfy your curiosity (come on, I know you want to read about my Christmas vacation!)...
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I’ve felt a little lost the last few weeks. I just got back from this whirlwind trip back to Germany. I am behind on blogging, reading blogs and everything else. I am tired, I have a cold, but after all the precious time that I was able to take off...
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I was honestly hoping that at this point I would have my Google Reader down to 0 and be all caught up with my Christmas recaps and vacation stories, but 2013 has seriously started off throwing me a curve ball that I wasn’t prepared for. I’m sad. And heartbroken. And...
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Hello 2013. Happy new year to you, lovelies. Once again, I am super-late with my New Year’s wishes. I apologize. In case you thought I was going to quit this blog for good: nope! But I know it’s been awfully quiet around here the last few weeks. I was completely...
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When you guys are reading this, J and I will be somewhere over the clouds on our way to – or maybe already in – Germany (obviously not with Southwest, ha!, but we’re taking a connecting flight down to LAX first and are then hopping on a straight flight from...
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