I’m NOT lovin’ it

by | Mar 4, 2009 | Expat Life

We got out and about last Sunday morning, excited to be going to Sunflower Garden Center to find some further inspiration for our garden and courtyard. The weather was beautiful and on our way there, we made a pit stop at the nearest fast food place –...

Archives? Who needs those?

by | Mar 4, 2009 | Expat Life

When something notable happens here in Germany, I try to make  few comments on it. This time around, I’m not really sure what to think. A building in Cologne containing the city’s historical archives collapsed yesterday. It contained 65,000 original...

No meal planners in Germany?

by | Feb 24, 2009 | Expat Life

It was that time of the month again. Lots of meat frozen in the trunk freezer but nothing in the fridge to put a meal together with. It’s still going to be a little while until we can eat anything from our own garden so I had to make a trip to Lidl. It’s a...

German fast food

by | Jan 31, 2009 | Expat Life

The man who invented the döner kebab died this week. Sad news indeed. But as an almost tribute to him, we found out our little village is finally going to have a döner stand of its own. We went out today to grab a cable for our new phone system (which we still...

Getting things corrected

by | Jan 23, 2009 | Expat Life, Family

I had to be up bright and early this morning so Mack and I could go to the US embassy. After we got the passport and birth certificate  in the mail with the wrong birth date (my mistake, not theirs), I had to figure out what we needed to do to correct it. One can...

Looks a bit American…

by | Dec 26, 2008 | Christmas, Decorating, Entertaining, Expat Life

So my MIL & FIL were standing outside our house the other day and an older lady was walking by. She stopped to chat and mentioned that the decorations on the house looked really nice, “although they are a bit American. Not that that is a bad thing.” We...