After 5 days of patiently explaining the exchange rate each time my in-laws freaked out about an 85 zloty entree in Poland while eating out… after telling them at least half a dozen times that saying in an extremely loud & slow voice “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICANOoooo” to the locals probably wasn’t winning them many […]

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I’m writing from Poznan, Poland. It’s actually fairly nice & modern, complete with 24 hour shopping! Oh, and we had our first KFC since leaving america… poland has so much to offer. Tomorrow we leave with a guide to trace Jim’s mother’s roots and… I don’t know… “visit the soil of our […]

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Since it was as clean as it would probably ever be, I snapped some photos of our flat before our compant arrived. Pretty much they’re boring, but I always love seeing the homes of others… so here you go.
Oh, Jeanni, there are some ‘what’s in the fridge’ pics for mr. J. Plus, I […]

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Tomorrow we leave for a three week tour of germany, poland, the netherlands, france and austria. Seven people, 6 suitcases, 1 squirmy 6 year old, 1 moody teenager and a hyper puppy… all crowded into 1 van. Yowza. Pray for me!
Not sure if I’ll have internet or not at the hotels we’re staying […]

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There are ten circles of hell, not nine. The tenth being the second floor of Ikea on a saturday afternoon. For a reason I can only chalk up to insanity we decided saturday morning we needed a coffee table… setting us up for one of the worst shopping experiences of my life. […]

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I am so frustrated with my internet provider, tks. We’ve had the same problem twice now where we just stop getting email, then we start getting old stuff (from 10 days or so ago) and anything new that tries to come in is just lost in cyberspace. Forever. Normally this is just […]

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Even though I’m an avid reader I tend not to post reviews because, in my mind, just about every book written is a winner in one way or another. I have my favorites… novels, authors, themes… but I figure if you’re a reader yourself, you already know about them. And if you’re not a […]

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This will be a quick entry as I have to go shopping for men’s underwear. Dude got out of his crate last night and when we found him in the laundry room roughly an hour later, he’d eaten his way through the crotch of 5 pair of Jim’s dirty underwear.
Man, i’m laughing in the […]

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The past week has been a blur of family oriented activities and chores. Nothing really noteworthy, but I am happy to report that Sydney turned six yesterday with all the pomp & pageantry expected for a spoiled little princess. Saturday we had a birthday slumber party… 4 little girls = tons of giggling, […]

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