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Week in Prague - Part II


The following photos will give you a glimpse of the charm of Prague which can be found in the architecture.
The city is very well preserved and each street offers up secrets if you look for them.
Beautiful buildings adorned with gold and statues greet you at every corner.

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The city hall is the [...]

Chicken pox


When I stretched my arms this morning and then rubbed my eyes open, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Sun!
Today, for the first time in days, we have sun.
Many of the children in my five year old daughter’s classroom have chicken pox which is kinda a downer to the sunny weather. The teachers let [...]

Gas prices are soaring in Europe as well


Think gas is high. Try Europe - read Time’s article

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Confrontation


I confronted my Bosnian neighbor today.
I told her she did not have the right to put her clothes up in the laundry room on my day.
She told me she could use the drying racks because the racks were not mine.
I asked her if the racks were hers and she said no. I knew that they [...]

Expat women survey


I, recently, participated in an online survey for expat women living in Europe. A nice article in response to the results of this survey is over at Expatica.
You can read it here.
A quick take on the results are in this quote from Expatica:
In a survey of more than 200 women living abroad, 74 [...]

Birthday cake


We celebrated Sweet Bear’s birthday Friday night.
The fruit toppings made her cake colorful. It was as good as it was beautiful.
My kids have been taking turns being sick for a week. I am sick as well. Sleep is not going well and I am exhausted.
Last Saturday, we had to take Sweet [...]

Get the lead out of your feet people!


La fête de la musique has come and gone. We went for a couple of hours walking and sometimes stopping to watch an interesting performance. Once the streets starting to get crowded we headed home. Last year, we learned a lesson about packed streets and strollers not to mention small children [...]

Eurovision 2006


I’m not a big fan of Eurovision.
However, it could be fun to watch if you change the way the singers were rated. Say, instead of judging the best singers…Judge the worst singers. Now, that would be worth watching! And, to make it really interesting (since few countries sing in their own language) [...]