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Book Review - Maybe One

June 3, 2009

Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explain­ing about not hav­ing sib­lings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Dis­ney­land might have been more fun with a sib­ling but if I’d had a sib­ling my par­ents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Dis­ney­land. It requires lis­ten­ing to peo­ple talk […]

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The SAH vs. working parent debate

May 10, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day!  Today, I’m up early and my guys are sleep­ing in, but that’s fine with me because I have a lit­tle time for myself. My mother and I butted heads often when I was young, but becom­ing a mother myself, and mov­ing to another coun­try, just as she did, have really given me […]

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Book Review: The No-Cry Nap Solution

January 18, 2009

I’m a fan of Eliz­a­beth Pant­ley and her No-Cry series of books.  Her book, The No-Cry Sleep Solu­tion: Gen­tle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, helped give me the courage to lis­ten to my heart.  So many peo­ple would ask me if Oliver was sleep­ing through the night, that I started worrying […]

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The Best European Car Seats

December 19, 2008

Accord­ing to the Ger­man con­sumer rat­ings mag­a­zine Stiftung War­entest, these are the top five car seats in each cat­e­gory that have earned either a “good” or “very good” qual­ity rat­ing.  The num­ber in paren­the­sis is the score received, the lower the score, the bet­ter the car seat did in tests.  When fewer than five seats […]

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Discount shoes and handbags at 6pm.com

December 2, 2008

Dur­ing my visit to the US, I spent quite a bit of time search­ing for the best deal on kid’s shoes for my lit­tle guy.  After a week of price com­par­ing, I decided to take a chance on a site I’d never heard of, 6pm.com.  I ordered a cou­ple pairs of tod­dler shoes at 60% […]

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Odenwaelder Babynest

November 16, 2008

Last year while in DC over the Christ­mas hol­i­days, we received a lot of com­ments on how warm and snug­gly Oliver looked in his stroller bag.  The stroller bag is a pretty com­mon thing in Ger­many and the rest of Europe, so I thought I’d intro­duce you to the com­pany that pro­duces the baby stroller […]

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30% Off at Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy

November 13, 2008

The Gap Inc, which includes Gap, Gap Out­let, Banana Repub­lic, Banana Repub­lic Fac­tory Stores and Old Navy, is offer­ing a 30% dis­count in-store and online* between Novem­ber 13–16.  Not only will you get 30% off, but 5% of the amount you spend will be donated to the Gap Foun­da­tion, whose goal is to help women […]

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Anna und Paul Soft-Sole Baby Shoes

November 11, 2008

Anna und Paul are slightly cooler, soft-soled, first-steps shoes.  They’re also slightly cheaper than Robeez, but still great qual­ity.  There’s a Ger­man web­site that also ships out­side of Ger­many, but requires a bank trans­fer before ship­ment.  The Eng­lish web­site exists, but I had some trou­ble nav­i­gat­ing it, it kept kick­ing me over to the German site.

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Pedipeds Shoes - Review and Giveaway!

October 28, 2008

Until he was get­ting around on his feet rather than his knees, my son only wore shoes on spe­cial occa­sions. In fact, he’s the only bare­foot raga­muf­fin in our big fam­ily photo from last Christ­mas. Appar­ently his cousins have more refined sar­to­r­ial tastes. But once he started cruis­ing, I saw why my friends sang the […]

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Review: Stokke Tripp Trapp

September 28, 2008

After much research on my part, my hus­band and I set­tled on get­ting a Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair for Oliver.  It’s expen­sive, at 140 Euro for just the base chair, but we expect to get 1–2 decades of use out of it, mak­ing it more afford­able than a high chair that would only be […]

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