April 23rd
Hello everyone! It feels so great to be back home again. I apologize for not having posted in such a long time, but to be honest it has taken me several days to get settled and back into a routine again. Our trip to Europe was wonderful in so many ways — but it was non-stop hectic, [...]
February 26th
A box from my dear friend, Christine, arrived from Paris this morning. What a lovely surprise! Christine, (who recently became a new grandmother — congratulations!) is a very talented quilter, and she kindly offered to do some machine quilting on a finally-completed UFO. Remember this and this? Yep, I really and truly began this quilt way back [...]
September 13th
In my previous blog I mentioned that my boys surprised me with some of the books from my “reading wish list” for my birthday.
Notice a theme? Well, quite honestly it all began in last month when I went to see the movie, Julie and Julia. It has become one of my all-time-favorite movies! Right after [...]
June 24th
We wanted to do something special with the boys: take one special last trip before we make the transition back to the US. The weather was rainy here in Stuttgart this past weekend, but not in France. So we drove to Paris!
On our way, we made a quick stop in Soufflenheim, my favorite village in France, where [...]