Today is our 3rd Anniversary. Gee, I seriously can’t believe it’s been 3 years since our beautiful wedding in Germany. Attending Susi’s wedding reception on Monday definitely brought back some memories of our own wedding with friends and family as well. It really doesn’t feel like it’s been three years,...
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Today is Valentine’s Day. While I like the romantic idea of it, I don’t buy into all the commercial crap that surrounds Valentine’s Day. I can have a good time with J any other day of the year and I don’t need Valentine’s Day for him to show me that...
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No, I am not quite yet jumping on the bandwagon of the mysterious “snowball effect” that has rippled through the blogosphere. I can’t quite commit to the 365 days right now, but I definitely find grace in the small things in life on a daily basis. I just talked about...
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Aimee over at greeblemonkey.com holds a montly photo contest and I decided to participate! The contests usually don’t have a theme, but seeing as Thanksgiving *is* Aimee’s most favorite holiday in the whole wide world, she thought having the idea of “Grateful” in this month’s entries would be kinda cool. So,  ...
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   1. Beehouse Tea Pot – I’ve had that tea pot for a while now, but now that we actually have tea-weather I’ll be using it much more often. 2. Greta – my cute little niece. I cannot stop talking to my sister about her. I want to know every little...
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I usually don’t like to talk about too personal things on my blog – especially if those personal things concern other people in my life –  and if I do so occasionally, I password-protect these posts. It is not so much about protecting myself as it is about protecting people that I...
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As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to tell you about the shopping on Sunday. Our 2-year cell phone contract with Verizon was about to expire very soon and we already had looked into extending our contract and upgrading our phones for a while. We’re on a family...
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This might be kind of lengthy. It was a four-day weekend for me, after all :) Don’t you love it? On Friday, I needed to recuperate from the long work week. I slept in and took another two-hour nap in the afternoon. What the hell is wrong with me? :)...
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