So K5 and I are in CA and we're showing my mom how to read our journal. But we've been such slackers about posting lately, I need to actually write something! Lots of fun in SF with esti626 and N this week, loved seeing kronemab and K and M!! Off to San Diego today...

Today is was three Ks south of Frankfurt as a friend joined K5 and I for an easter egg hunt of a different sort. Every year when I was a child, my mother would hang our freshly dyed easter eggs on an easter tree, a small collection of branches in a vase. She also had a few precious German eggs, painted with bunnies and chicks or decorated with ( Read more... )

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So, we had a great time in MA and CA, seeing lots of family and friends and just generally enjoying our free time. It has been surprisingly easier to settle back into work than I thought it was going to be, although stubborn remnants of jetlag seem to have me a bit out of whack inside my own body. I get hungry and tired (and therefore cranky) at ( Read more... )

So almost everyone we know is posting about how they helped change the color of a certain state, and how much celebration they are participating in, and how it is so great to be in America right now. All I have to say to that is we helped change the color of that state too and WE DID NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE!!! Celebratory hugs to all!

So, we drove the Romantic Road this past weekend, overnighting in Rothenberg and then Munich for two nights. The weather was gorgeous and the scenery lovely. We could not have had a more wonderful time, but the really funny part was when we were in the Neue Pinakothek on Monday looking at paintings. BIG paintings. And we saw this giant painting ( Read more... )

Happy German Unity Day everyone. Raise a (good) beer and remember that every now and then democracy wins out and the little guy becomes the hero.

We love this.

Don't vote.

Phew, what a week! For some reason the fall slow down just hasn't come... next week is likely to be another flurry of hectic activity, but on October 3 we have a holiday, huzzah!! Since both of us have not had the time to plan anything, we are now accepting suggestions for places to spend out three-day weekend. Yes, kids, that is right, you may ( Read more... )

K5's birthday is sunday!