What I’ve Learned NOT to do from the Ex-Wife
How to learn from mistakes the bio-mom made and use it to your advantage with your own kids’ stepmom.
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Tag: #blended family
Babyweight Loss and ‘Me’-Time
Or: Lack Thereof So, little Miss C is 9 weeks old and has already developed quite a personality. Her 4 siblings just adore her and she shows them her love by only keeping James and me…
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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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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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Menu For Wednesday And Thursday
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…
Read MoreHow To Plan Out A Daily Or Weekly Menu On A Budget
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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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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