Either you jump by yourself or you wait for someone to come along and push you – the choice is yours!
Here is the good news! We got my son back in time for Thanksgiving Day! He tested negative for Covid, did his 12 day quarantine at his Dad’s, and was able to come back for Thanksgiving.…
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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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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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…because everyone has a thing or two to say about it. Hi, Guys! It’s Corona Virus, and Stay-at-home order time. These last few weeks, I won’t lie, were… WEIRD. I want to tell you all about…
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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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So, our custody exchange schedule is 2 days on/2 days off, with alternating weekends. Meaning that we have all four kids in the house from Wednesdays after school until Fridays’ school begin and then we either…
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Planning menus on a budget is not easy, especially if you have growing kids to feed. This is how I do it so we have money left over at the end of the month to buy other necessities or save money for a trip to show the kids the world. Okay, so the latter is really more of a long-term dream goal, but you get my point LOL.
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Ever since James and I decided that we would raise our blended family together, James has embraced a lot of my rules for my children and applied them to his kids. One of the main differences…
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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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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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