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Recently I posted on Facebook the following statement: In just seven very short days Mr. starts his parental leave. Part of me excited; bu...

It appears that remaining horizontal is out of fashion. Although little man isn't properly crawling yet - an eff...

Yours truly is featured today on the very cool Product Parenting website! Considering the awesome mommies that have already been feat...

It isn't easy to meet new people in Germany. In part because the culture is based on a much stricter definition of "inside" a...

For about as long as we have had Mr PJ's bouncy chair , he has spent at least a little bit of breakfast, lunch, or dinner time in it, l...

Remember the post " Things to Say ... and Not "? Number 8 on Things Not to Say was:  ----- 8. Oh, I totally understand. My dog/...

Last night the Mr. got home from a four-day business vacation*. PJ was already in bed, exhausted from the trials of cutting his first tooth...

Ever wondered to yourself: what's the difference between English/American and German lullabies? Yeah, me either. Well, until recently ...

PJ is Four Months today! One-third of his first year is already over - remember when it all began ? This weekend I closed up the first ...

The Mr. and I enjoyed our first Mommy and Daddy's Night Out last night. We put little man to bed and then slipped around the corner to...

Little man got all decked out yesterday for a special day times two: Halloween (of course) and Oma's birthday (even better).  Mommy ...

The first few months of PJ’s arrival into our life were chaotic at best. We dealt with breastfeeding issues , post partum depression, coli...

Over two years ago while visiting the US, my sister and I bought ourselves some pretty rad, extremely goofy sunglasses. Mine were red with b...

I am a big reader and hope to give that pleasure to our little boy. In that vein, I have been reading two short books to PJ as part of his b...

We took our little PJ up to the American consulate yesterday to apply for his American passport and social security number. The process was ...

Drum roll: At this very moment I am not in the very same physical location as PJ.  About 30 minutes ago the Mr. took him off to his work for...

...And we have lift off! PJ is officially 12 weeks old today. Since about birth PJ has been both a stroller and a car screamer. I fluctua...

PJ was born in July 2011 . It is now September 2011. Between then and now – and unlike the mythology of motherhood – there have been more ...

I am in the double digits of motherhood: Friday PJ turned 10 weeks old. In the past 10 weeks I’ve learned a lot about myself, my husband, an...

Everyone told us before PJ arrived how important sleep was going to be. At the time I recall getting annoyed with how everyone (it seemed) a...