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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Tag: #blendedhouse
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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Having Everyone Together Again – If Only For A Short Time.
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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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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It’s been too long…
I realized how much time has passed since I last posted. Geez! And it’s not that I didn’t want to write or didn’t have the time – I just didn’t want to post anything that wasn’t…
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Blending the multilingual family and 5 reasons why I don’t find it easy
This blog post has been long in the making. As we are adjusting to our new life as one happily blended family under one roof, some of our moments are not quite as happy as we…
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THE EVIL STEP-MOTHER and how to stop yourself from becoming one
I have been pondering this post for a week now. And I’m still not exactly sure where to start. Our kids have been in their new schools for three weeks now. They are loving their schools…
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Bonne Rentrée
So, we are officially moved in. And we have survived the first week in our blended home. And – as of right now – we are alive to tell the story. All of this while starting…
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