AS IF PENNIES WEREN’T ENOUGH

AS IF PENNIES WEREN’T ENOUGH

by | Oct 28, 2019 | Germany

In many ways moving to Europe is like moving back in time. As in, ‘what are credit cards’?  As in, always hearing a jingling in your pocket as you walk down the street.  As in, always having to check your seat as you get up to pick up any and all...
TWO CONFIRMED KILLS

TWO CONFIRMED KILLS

by | Oct 28, 2019 | Germany

There are many things I love about our 450 year old home but the mice are not one of them.  After three confirmed kills the previous week, I heard the little buggers racing through the walls above me as well as chewing the wall next to where we sleep.  Enough so that...
BAYERN 2019 PHOTO SHOOT

BAYERN 2019 PHOTO SHOOT

by | Oct 27, 2019 | Germany

27 OCTOBER 2019 So the children came back from school with their school photograph proofs earlier this year.  Julia loved them.  What we didn’t like was the price.  Crazy isn’t it?  I believe in compensating professional photographers...
THE RIDE HOME

THE RIDE HOME

by | Oct 24, 2019 | Germany

Not sure when it’s going to wear off, but still appreciating the drive between post and home. There were so many things to love about living in Pinehurst and North Carolina (and the kids will tell you what those are every day), but one thing that brings me much...
AUTUMN IN EUROPE

AUTUMN IN EUROPE

by | Oct 21, 2019 | Germany

OCTOBER 21, 2019 We arrived 15 July and this was the first day the entire family was able to ‘take it easy’ (okay, it was the first day Jules was able to take it easy with the rest of us). We took advantage of the lazy day by taking a ten mile bicycle ride...
SCHOOL DAYS

SCHOOL DAYS

by | Oct 16, 2019 | Germany

Deutschland represents a number of firsts for our family.  Among them is the first time Hunter, Eva, and Acadia have attended a Department of Defense school.  Like all schools there is both good and bad.   Hohenfels Elementary School is reminiscent...