Germany

Traveling With a Toddler — Day 3: Wurst, Twins, and Butter Cake

July 4, 2009

Recounting the third day of our Germany trip: After breakfast, Landon and I drove with Nani to the local supermarket to get our usual stash of candy and chocolate we always bring back to America. I couldn’t help but take a picture of L in front of the Wurst (sausage) section and the long aisle [...]

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How to Prepare Your Child for Preschool

July 2, 2009

Can you tell that we were in a hurry? Look at that hair! Landon is now two years and eight months old, and today was his first day in preschool! Since our neighbors moved away — and with it my wonderful babysitter — I had to enroll him in preschool to have time to do [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 2: Garden, Soup, and Vacuum

July 1, 2009

Recounting the second day of our Germany trip: Our first night in Bremen was a little rough. I was totally exhausted by the time nighttime rolled around since I had basically been up for two days. But since the sun doesn’t go down until 10 at night in the summer in Germany and L was on [...]

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Traveling with a Toddler — Day 1: Airplane and Car Rides

June 25, 2009

Since I wasn’t able to blog much while away, I want to recount my Germany trip with Landon and share the many great pictures I took: Landon and I flew from Newark, NY (around 5 p.m.), to Hamburg, Germany, to make our every-six-months-or-so pilgrimage to my parents and to see my friends. Don drove us to the [...]

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Hamburg, then Home to New York

June 21, 2009

It’s time to pack. I just edited the last few articles for THE magazine, then I might pack a little more before going to bed next to Landon, who has been sleeping for a few hours. We are sleeping in my childhood bed, which is tiny, in my old room. Landon and I will visit [...]

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Computer Trouble — I Don’t Like Macs!

June 20, 2009

I give up. I am not able to easily download and size pictures from here, I look forward to sharing them with you when I am back in New York. Here is just one of Landon asleep on my parents’ sofa. He was very tired from two days of running around in the country. Landon [...]

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Grüße aus Deutschland

June 19, 2009

Landon and I are visiting my parents in Germany. I don’t get to write posts from here often, there just isn’t much time — our days are so filled with eating fattening food, taking naps, and meeting friends – and I think I messed up my parent’s Mac (oops), but you can follow us on Twitter. http://twitter.com/DagmarBleasdale.com We will [...]

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Breastfeeding and Entertaining a Toddler on a Plane

June 14, 2009

Greetings from Germany! Landon and I flew from Newark, NY, to Hamburg, Germany, a few days ago to visit Nani and Opa. My mother picked us up and we arrived in my former hometown Bremen about 1 1/2 hours later. Landon had been a doll on the plane. It was the first time that we [...]

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Excessive Toy Packaging Unsafe and Wasteful

May 1, 2009

I promised you the story and the pictures of opening the packaging of a new toy for Landon. Don bought him this noisy backhoe that came in the most ridiculous packaging I have ever seen. It was tied down by tiny screws, of all things, and it took us 10 minutes to open it! We [...]