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Week 39: Brooklyn’s Birthday

It’s Brooklyn’s birthday week! I can’t believe my baby girl turned 14 😩. Luckily, Alli was here to celebrate with us. We had the best possible scenario, because I was unable to take any time off, but Alli was able to work remotely, so we both worked during the day, and then made the mostContinue reading “Week 39: Brooklyn’s Birthday”

Week 38: Surprise Visitor!

This week started out as usual. Wednesday, Matt and I went to Indoor Golfing Stuttgart with one of his golf friends. The indoor golf place is also a wine importer and bar so at least there were drinks for me while I watched the (bad) golfing. Friday, we got a surprise visitor! My sister hasContinue reading “Week 38: Surprise Visitor!”

Week 37: Matt’s Birthday

It’s Matt’s Birthday week! Up until the weekend, we had another quiet week. The only exception was Brooklyn’s Spelling Bee. Unbeknownst to us, Brooklyn decided to enroll herself in her school’s spelling bee and made it to the final six in eighth grade. In the final round the top six from each grade would competeContinue reading “Week 37: Matt’s Birthday”

Week 36: Hanging at Home

After getting back from Prague on Monday night, we had a quiet week. Work has been really busy for me and Matt has been really busy with school. On top of that, the kids started the 3rd quarter at school so started new classes and by the end of the week, we were so done!Continue reading “Week 36: Hanging at Home”

Week 35: Prague

We are all back in Germany after our trip back to the U.S. and spent the week catching up on sleep and things around the house. MLK weekend is another four day weekend for the base and we had originally planned to go to Tromso, Norway, but our flights ended up getting cancelled. This wasContinue reading “Week 35: Prague”

Home for Christmas

We had an awesome trip home for the holidays! It was so nice to catch up with family and friends. We had originally planned on a two week stay but Ryan and I both tested positive for Covid on the last day so had to extend our stay for another week. We are all backContinue reading “Home for Christmas”

Week 32: Getting Ready for Christmas

Our last week in Stuttgart for the year! Monday night was finally our last German class. We each had to give a ten minute presentation to the class for our final exam. We both passed the presentation and passed the class with A’s. Thank God we got the same scores so neither one of usContinue reading “Week 32: Getting Ready for Christmas”

Week 31: Christmas Markets!

It was another “normal” week at home. School, work, German classes, and after-school activities. German class is really getting old! I’m enjoying learning a new language but I am so tired of rushing from work to three hours of class twice a week. Granted, I am mostly working from home and the class is virtualContinue reading “Week 31: Christmas Markets!”

Week 30: Winter Time

I can’t believe another week has flown past us. It’s been cold for a couple of weeks now, but this week it was COLD! It has snowed almost every night and some of the days, with some freezing rain mixed in, hence we stayed home almost every day. The exception being the kids going toContinue reading “Week 30: Winter Time”

Week 29: Thanksgiving Week

This week started with shuffling several plans around. Originally, we were unable to find a dog kennel over Thanksgiving weekend but recently some space opened up and we immediately booked the dogs and made plans to go to Austria and Slovakia for Christmas markets. This past weekend, both countries were put into lockdown and ontoContinue reading “Week 29: Thanksgiving Week”