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April 2013

Food, House Hunting and becoming a SAHM

House hunting has become an all-consuming project over the last few weeks. I was even hopeful for awhile when Nathan started saying “this is MY house!” thinking this was some sort of sign that we found THE house; but alas, he says every house is HIS house. I don’t recommend …

The Challenges

Living abroad comes with many challenges, some expected (language barrier), some not (buying milk every day!?). Here are a few of the challenges I have experienced in the first two weeks…. 1. Sharing a room with a 2-year old To be fair, I was doing this for 8 weeks prior …

Where Are All the Changing Tables?

I have lived in Europe before. A lot is familiar, (cobblestone pedestrian walkways, non refillable drinks) but of course things are also very different, after all, this is Germany and I lived in the UK. One thing I never had to think about last time around was anything that had …

It Takes a Village

Sometimes I am a nervous flyer-but flying with a toddler leaves no time for the mind to wander to worst case scenarios on airplanes. So I was surprisingly calm as my friends took me to the airport. As you can imagine, moving overseas equals a lot of luggage. Moving overseas …