If you’ve read my blog for a while (or at least since last year’s NaBloPoMo), you might remember that I am not a huge Halloween fan. I didn’t grow up celebrating Halloween (in Germany, November, 1 – All Saint’s Day – is a national holiday, but we didn’t celebrate Halloween...
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Last weekend, I was invited along for a girls’ weekend in the snow. If you recall, I went with my friend Susi and some of her friends to Tahoe once before. One of her friends owns a vacation home in Truckee and I was thrilled to get up to the...
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This year, we traveled over the holidays again for the first time in years. I took the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s off and we flew down to Southern California to spend the holidays with my mother-in-law. We arrived on Friday evening, she had dinner ready (a delicious...
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STOKED | to be finishing up my last work day of the year. It’s quiet on Campus today. EXCITED | to start my new knitting project over the holidays. I think I mentioned that I have been thinking about knitting a sweater (my second attempt at clothing) and I am...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2022 It’s the time of the year with all the gift and wish lists and I always like participating. I like to share things that I love or that I randomly came across on the...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2023 If you have been a long-time reader of my blog, you already know that every year for the last – oh, I don’t know how many – years, I have exchanged holiday cards with some of...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2023 photo credit: @ellienelie via Unsplash Stephany has linked to a set of gratitude prompts in previous years (and she’s doing the prompts again this year) and I thought it would be fun to pick some of the original 30 prompts...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2023 photo credit: @katishna via Unsplash Hello and welcome to the 8th annual Secret SANta Swap 2023. First things first, and credit where credit is due. The slight “name change” of my annual holiday swap...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2023 As mentioned yesterday, Halloween is a rather uneventful holiday around here. Jon loves Halloween but we usually don’t do anything special. We haven’t been to a Halloween party in years and when Jon suggested...
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Well, our Christmas turned out to be a little bit different than we had planned. This year, we finally had plans to host family (Jon’s mom) for Christmas. We had been looking forward to have company over the holiday for once, but as previously mentioned, her travel plans were thwarted...
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