Everything was a little bit smaller (the tree), quieter and less extravagant this Christmas. It all started out with a (new) thick white blanket of snow that had been spread over my hometown over night. My Dad and I had to shovel snow on the morning of Christmas Eve. Two...
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{via} I hope you don’t mind that I tweaked the title of this post a bit, because it seemed appropriate today to not tell you what I love, but what I am thankful for this Thursday. (BTW, I wish that I had baked this awesome Thank You pie in the...
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{via} So. Who wants some snail mail for Christmas? As you might recall, we actually celebrate Christmas Eve in Germany as opposed to Christmas Day (although the 25th and 26th are official holidays in Germany and they’re usually spend with family as well), which means I have exactly a month...
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{via} With only 5 weeks left until Christmas, it really is high time to get a few things worked out: – Book a flight home already. I know! It’s one of those things that I do… I always wait until last minute, but I needed to figure out how much...
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{via} So, here we are. Today is the first day of NaBloPoMo and traditionally that is also the day after Halloween. Naturally, my first question will be: did you do something fun? Secondly, I need to mention that the (Catholic parts of) Germany is doing something right having a holiday...
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Today I’ll be sharing with you the recipe for a traditional (German) Easter bread with which I have been tempting you for the last few years already. For those of you, who want to try and bake it yourselves, here’s the recipe, finally: San’s Easter Bread 2 1/4 cups wheat...
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For me, the pre-Christmas time is almost more precious than Christmas itself. Ok, that is not entirely true, because when we celebrate Christmas with my family, Christmas Eve is pretty much my favorite day of the year, but for this year it is definitely true. Knowing that we wouldn’t go...
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Also, today is the second Sunday of Advent. I am planning to stay at home, light some candles and prepare my Christmas mail which I want to send out ASAP (especially the mail that’s going overseas). We went to the Christkindlmarket with the German Group yesterday. Besides the fact that...
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