German

Raising a Bilingual Child: Go Ahead, You Try It!

March 4, 2011

Cool, He’s Going to be Bilingual! Well, Maybe Not. “Oh, wie schön!” was the only thing my mom could say before she choked up and started to cry. Those were happy tears. I had called my parents in Germany to tell them that I was pregnant. My father’s first words were: “You better teach him [...]

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Our Frugal Christmas Decorations

December 24, 2010

Our Christmas decoration doesn’t look much different than last year. I decided to use the fake tree I bought last year again because I had it in the house and got a desire to start decorating on Thanksgiving day. I love decorating and couldn’t wait, plus I’m just too frugal to buy one in the [...]

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How to Make Any DVD Player Region Free

September 30, 2010

If you have DVDs from other countries or regions that are not playing on your DVD player, listen up! Last night I was in the process of finally buying a region free DVD player so that Landon would be able to watch the DVDs we have from Germany that just won’t play here in America. [...]

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Not Me! Monday — Working at 3 in the Morning

March 29, 2010

I did not get addicted to Picnik at 2 in the morning and just had to design a new header for my blog. Do you like it? My brother Oliver whipped up my first one the last time I was in Germany, but I have been wanting to update it for a while now and [...]

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Recipe: Streusel Poppy Seed Cake — German Mohnkuchen

January 2, 2010

It’s been two weeks that I mentioned I made this: I still owe you the recipe, so here it is. I received the original recipe from my friend Stephanie, who got it from The MuffinTin Post. Because I only bought one cup of poppy seeds, I cut the dough ingredients in half, which was plenty [...]

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The Joy of Raising a Bilingual Child

November 20, 2009

SMILE! Not, not like that! Aww, now I felt bad for having said something… Raising Landon to be bilingual in English and German is proving to be more of a challenge to accomplish than I thought. All you bilingual parents will understand what I am talking about, and I will go into more detail about [...]

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Raising a Bilingual Child

April 9, 2009

We are raising Landon bilingually, he learns German from me. So really, I am raising him bilingually. This isn’t easy for me, since my first language is English now and has been for many years (I am an editor, it better be!) and my German is getting worse. I just don’t speak it enough, only [...]