Saturday in Berlin what we thought was a stomach virus for Jim turned out to be acute appendicitis. The odd part was he felt pain more in his groin area than his side… and since we were in a hotel in a (more or less) strange city I had to go down to the […]

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This afternoon we were discussing music with the girls when they decided they knew us so well that they could make a cd with all our favorite songs, no input from us. Well, one cd turned into two and actually they did pretty well. I was surprised with some of their choices, but had […]

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Today is a down day. Don’t you hate those?
There are some things I’ve been hanging onto… I see that now… out of loyalty or maybe a misguided sense of friendship or something else that I don’t quite understand, but it’s clear that I need to put them behind me. When there’s no quid […]

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I’ve spent the past five hours at Dresden’s Hygene Museum with two teachers, three other parents and 19 very hyper children. Yeah… it’s almost as bad as it sounds.
I have no idea how teachers do it… I’m exhausted.

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In addition to Dude’s leg lovin’ proclivities, we’ve now begun to have ‘pink thing’ issues. As in, he leaves his out… about 35% of the time. Not only does it look like a gross, slimy tapeworm but there’s the sinking feeling you get when you pick him up and feel moisture on your […]

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We just finished the final episode of the final season of Arrested Development. As it was ending I couldn’t help thinking… what the hell is wrong with people?? Everybody Loves Raymond ran for nine long years, but Arrested Development only makes it three before being cancelled? It’s probably the funniest thing I’ve […]

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We arrived in Dresden February 15th, 2006. Which means we had until August 15th to obtain our deutsch driver’s license before we morphed into illegal drivers in our new country. I still don’t have mine.
Funny thing is, I’ve completed all the steps to transfer my license. I’ve paid a small fortune to […]

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As I was reading Dr. Seuss’ ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go!’ to Sydney last night I realized that… in a simple children’s book… was a summation of life so perfect & pristine that, honestly, I can’t think of better advice to offer my girls. I highly recommend it for the children (young & old) […]

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Jan. 13 - 14th: Berlin/Robyn’s b-day
Jan. 20 - 21st: Erfurt/Weimar/Buchenwald/Adam
Feb. 5th: Berlin/Ben Folds concert
Feb. 15th - 25th: London & anything within driving distance of London
March 17 - 18th: Regensburg/Wurstkuchl (oldest restaurant in the world!)
April 7 - 14th: Ireland (not sure where we’ll be staying yet, but we’ll be seeing as much of Ireland as possible)
May […]

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While shopping earlier today…
“I sure will be sad when wal-mart closes for good.”

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