Happy Nikolaus!
Today is Saint Nicholas Day (German = Nikolaus). Unfortunately my shoes turned up to be empty this morning, might be due to the fact that there’s no “Saint Nicholas Day” in the US. Oh well, but I...
Category: holidays
It’s a Christmas Card Exchange!
Ha! You didn’t really think I would not do the Christmas Card Exchange this year, now did you? Yeah, I don’t know who I was kidding. I enjoy it way too much and I am...
30: Goodbye, November and a little giveaway
Wow, it’s amazing how every year at the beginning of NaBloPoMo I am worried if I will really be able to stick to blogging every single day of the month and then I am always a bit...
29: A Christmas Wishlist
I saw some other bloggers share their Christmas wishlists again this year and I think they’re always kind of fun, so I put together mine. Those are all “would-love-to-have” wishes (ok, maybe except for the...
27: Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season
J and I had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice, cozy, quiet – just the two of us! – and my long weekend actually started a little earlier than anticipated since we were granted a 3-hour...
26: So much to do, so little time…
photo credit: Vanessa Lynn. via photopin cc With only 4 weeks left until Christmas – WHAT? – I really need to get a little to-do list going, because we’re leaving for Germany in less than...
22: Thankful
As I have mentioned before, Thanksgiving is not a holiday that is usually ‘celebrated’ in Europe. Well, we have something called Erntedankfest (“harvest festival of thanks”), which is often celebrated on the first Sunday in October, but it’s...
Happy Halloween!
{via} J and I are lame. We didn’t carve any pumpkins this year. I know! Unacceptable. Somehow October completely got away from me. I have no idea where the month went. We did watch a...