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Wordless Wednesday: Contented

Wordless Wednesday: Raise your voice

Wordless Wednesday: Winter

Emma Quotes

Mama, is today tomorrow?

To Johnny: You have to give me the glass. Otherwise you will turn into a girl.

Mama, feed me my pasta since I’m reading.

Said multiple times over the past couple of weeks: That’s really intressive! Maybe I over-use the words “impressive” and “interesting”?

Wordless Wednesday: Feeling Loved

Wordless Wednesday: Alternative use for storage bins

A new era

  Ten years ago…

Last night marked the end of an eventful decade in my life. Mike and I got engaged, got married, collected six college degrees and many more thousands of dollars of student loans, and lived in two states and three countries. We organized fundraisers for cancer research and watched helplessly as loved [...]

2009 in Review

 Potpie in Scotland in 2003

December was a beautiful month tinged with sorrow in our house. We had a wonderful trip to Vienna to visit my family. I enjoyed returning to my high school home (my parents had moved to another country within days of my high school graduation). I particularly appreciated the opportunity to [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Snow

Christmas Market at the Rathaus (Vienna’s City Hall)

One of the many reasons I was excited to visit my family in Vienna in December was because I knew we would be able to visit the city’s famous Christmas markets. We visited three different Christmas markets, where I gained a deep appreciation for the frequently modest prices of handmade items on etsy [...]