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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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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

Love the Man, Hate the Cheese

When I started dating Pierre in Minnesota, we would occasionally go to a fancy French cheese counter. He bought gooey … More

expat, love, marriage, struggles

Jet-lagged Little Ones

Ever wonder what flying and jetlag do to the little ones? How do Mommy and Daddy cope? Basically, it takes … More

expat, love, marriage, parenting, travel

My Son’s Birth

And in a way, birth is preparing us for life itself. Both are agonizing, messy, humiliating but beautiful.

birth, expat, love, marriage, struggles

Still Haunted by Family Separation

           The absence of a parent is unfathomable for a young child. This summer, I went home to visit my … More

expat, love, struggles, travel

Dear Baby Poem

Dear Baby, You fought the universe to come to us Arriving like a canon ball Our embrace absorbing the shock … More

birth, love, parenting

Dear Husband, I Love you in German

Lieber Husband,   I want to tell you how much I love you . . . in German.   ich … More

expat, language learning, love, marriage, struggles

Diva Dad Overdoes it at Church Pancake Breakfast, Again

   -Bob’s son in a pink apron!     -Was it the Men’s Fellowship Group’s way of revenging Bob the pancake … More

love, memories

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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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