When we left off with my adventures with A and E, I was just beginning to see my blogging voice return. It feels like I blinked and 5 days went past. #momlife in a nutshell but also why this day out with A and E had been so important to me. Our first mission had been...
Today’s story starts with a text message from my friend E. “If we don’t put it on the calendar, we will never go.” She was right. We had been talking about going for I don’t know how long. Maybe a year,give or take a few months. There was...
Documenting my family’s transatlantic move has occurred over a series of scrapbook layouts, not all at once or in any particular order. I made them over a span of time, many months apart. As insistent as I am on keeping my pages in order, I have huge gaps in my...
It’s been about year since my friend Jen moved with her family to Italy. I was very excited for her. Italy is a dream destination. She was excited too, but we were also a bit sad. We became friends due to a few mutual interests. We met through our local...
Sometimes you are the one passing the spices and sometimes you are the one receiving them. It’s a common ritual as an expat. A bittersweet one. There is the excitement of knowing that you or a friend is moving onward to a new adventure. There is also the sadness...
I have talked about it off an on, but maybe not directly enough. We’re expats and we live a very minimalist lifestyle. Now there are a lot of images that come to mind for many people when I say that. Many of these images often include a very well manicured home...
