I am not particularly good with this toddler/preschool age. This is evident in my relations with my own child, and my complete ambivalence towards his little friends. I know how critical this period is. I[…]

I have been wrapped up in the new-mama cocoon for the past few weeks, but I am slowly beginning to stretch out and interact with the world again. Jojo is five and a half weeks[…]

Written 5/29/2016, the day before my first prenatal exam with baby number two: I am afraid to go to the doctor for my first prenatal check up tomorrow. Not because I fear anything is wrong[…]

Written on 5/21/2016: On Monday I found out that I am pregnant again. I took the test not actually suspecting to be pregnant. Sure, my period was about a week late and sure, I felt[…]

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The more I think about it, the more I realize that it was a good thing our house fell through. Immediately after the house in the village fell through we found a house in the[…]

It looks like we will not get the house that we wanted. After almost a year of back and forth with various banks, we finally got our credit approved and were ready to purchase “our”[…]

Last week I wrote a blog about our trip to Vienna and I realized that it was mostly complaining. Honestly, I find traveling with a toddler difficult. He has lots of energy until he doesn’t[…]

This past weekend our family traveled to WordCamp Europe in Vienna. Overall, it was an exhausting trip, and I am starting to question whether I should be taking my child to a conference or (now[…]

Sometime in the past ten years (maybe more) “tourist” has become a bad word. Everyone wants to be a traveler. They all want to claim their wanderlust and no one is a lowly “tourist.” Although[…]