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Frozen Ocean Mom

Frozen Ocean Mom

Expat writer gracelessly coping with two kids in Germany and sometimes France

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Tag: faith

Letter to all the broken, bleeding-hearts / Lettre à tous ceux qui tiennent dans leur main un cœur brisé

How hard you have worked helping the most vulnerable in society.  Years ago, I asked my beloved French professor to … More

faith, love, struggles

Bye Bye Baby Days

My friend showed me a video of her grandson’s first steps. The little boy toddled on his newly-found feet. They … More

faith, growing up, love, parenting, struggles

Homecoming

As soon as travel restrictions lift, I hold my breath and buy an airline ticket home to Minnesota. My friends … More

COVID, expat, faith, homesickness, language learning, love, struggles, travel

Basket Weaving (My Testimony)

I sat in a small room under the choir loft weaving a paper basket together. My mom, our Sunday school … More

expat, faith, marriage, struggles

Parachute

As soon as the gate of the daycare clinks shut, my daughter runs to the platform. She clamors up in … More

expat, faith, struggles

To Freeze Time

I want to freeze every moment of your baby years. I want to tuck the sound of your first little … More

faith, struggles

A Letter to our Daughter on her Baptism / Une lettre à notre fille en l’honneur de son baptême

I write a lot about our son. He has been around a little longer and is quite the character. But … More

faith, love, struggles, two under two

She Has Done What She Could

It’s 2 AM and you awake folded like origami around your feverish toddler with a sandpaper tongue from singing his … More

faith, love, struggles, two under two

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I’m a writer and French teacher with a dirty little secret–I hate French cheese. This didn’t stop me from marrying a French man and moving to Germany to start a family with him. One day, I hope to freeze the ocean so that I can ice skate our little monsters, I mean children, to where my heart is in Minnesota. Until that happens this blog will have to do.

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