Es ist nicht alles Gold was glänzt and Nobody promised us Paradise on Earth.
Idioms that don’t translate well for my step-kids and the two reasons why parenting step-kids is different (and harder) than your own.
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Category: Blended Family
Blended Baby
As James says, “This baby represents everything about us and is truly blended.” (He was referring to the baby’s name, which we made out of the beginning letter of one of his children’s names and the…
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Tiny BIG News
The tiny big news and how our kids reacted to getting a half-sibling. With these positive reactions, we must have done something right when blending our family?!?
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The Hardest Day Of These Corona Times
Let me start this post off by saying, “No, none of us has been diagnosed with COVID19 and neither does anyone even have symptoms.” This is not to be a post where I think my life…
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Still home and still grateful
How we convinced our children that staying virtual for their schooling is better for them and made them actually grateful for our choice.
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New Year’s Resolutions
Soooooooo, it’s been a loooooooooong time (can anyone put any moooooooore o’s into words LOL) since I’ve last posted on this website… And I do realize that, in order to make a blog worth it, one…
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Eurocation 2019 – Wednesday
So, on Wednesday of our first 6-people Eurocation, we woke up at the Gasthaus Rhymbecke in Bochum. Bochum is the city where I was born. It is also at the heart of the “Ruhrpott”, referring to…
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Eurocation 2019, Tuesday
On Tuesday of our vacation, we spent the morning riding bicycles into town and shopped for kids’ shoes. Somehow, I ended up with a new pair of shoes, too. Yay me 🙂 Anyway, James’ kids loved…
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Eurocation 2019
So… spring break in Germany. It was most likely the most exhausting trip home I have taken in decades. And, when I still had a corporate job before kids, I did go there quite a bit…
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