back in the saddle

Boy, getting back to writing after a long hiatus is rough! I hadn’t planned to check out for this long, Friends. (I’m sorry!!!) It just happened when I found myself alone in a one-bedroom apartment in Vienna, Austria with my 3 kids for 3 1/2 weeks, and it...

A Habit You Should Never Break

I have had all these ideas swirling in my head about what I want to write, and then, of course, when I finally make myself sit down and start writing, my mind goes blank. Does that ever happen to you? Do you have ideas that you are so looking forward to sitting down...

The “Grass is Greener” Syndrome

We all do it. Without even thinking, we compare our lives to the lives of others around us, the life we used to have, the life we wish we had, the life of a stranger on Instagram or another friend’s family vacation album on Facebook. No matter who we are, what...
Hundertwasser, Döner Kebabs & XL Schnitzel

Hundertwasser, Döner Kebabs & XL Schnitzel

Hey Friends! I’ve decided to stop writing which day it is as my post title or header, because let’s face it, I don’t really care which day it is, and neither do you! It also puts unnecessary pressure on me to blog here every day, and while that is an...
Hundertwasser, Döner Kebabs & XL Schnitzel

Day 5: Rest Day

After our amazing outing the day before, today turned out to be a day of much-needed rest. When we got home from our friend Claudia’s house, I quickly got the kids to bed and I literally collapsed into my bed without so much as an ounce of energy leftover. We...
Hundertwasser, Döner Kebabs & XL Schnitzel

Day 4: a full Sunday

I didn’t get a chance to write yesterday (Sunday, May 19th), because we were literally going, going, going from the time we got up! That’s not usually how I like to roll with 3 kids, but it’s how it turned out, and we were tired, but fine. We started...