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Oliver and Leo's Colorful Bedroom

November 16, 2011

I just posted a Before & After of Oliver and Leo’s bed­room over on AmiExpat.com.  We recently bought a house in Ger­many and I’ve been con­sumed with ren­o­vat­ing and dec­o­rat­ing over the last year. In the room, I’m proud­est of the mag­netic chalk­board wall.  It was four days of work, but very worth it.  The kids […]

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The BVS Top Ten Toys of 2009

November 2, 2009

As Christ­mas approaches, I know we’re all won­der­ing what to get for the lit­tle ones in our lives.  For some ideas, here are the Ger­man BVS, Bun­desver­band des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels (Fed­eral Asso­ci­a­tion of Toy Retail­ers) top ten toys of 2009.  They’re not all avail­able out­side of Ger­many, but most are.  Have fun! 36 Cube by Thinkfun — […]

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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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Too wide waistbands? Make them fit!

March 18, 2009

Christina here, just wanted to wel­come Janda, the author of the guest post on con­vert­ing a reg­u­lar bra to a nurs­ing bra, to our writ­ing team. I have a tall tod­dler and she is skinny. When­ever I buy her trousers, I look for long ones first. Then, some­times I am lucky enough to find in some […]

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Finding an acceptable balance bike

February 16, 2009

Bal­ance bikes are very pop­u­lar in Europe and I’ve read that they’re start­ing to catch on in North Amer­ica now as well.  They’re great because kids learn to bal­ance on the bike with­out hav­ing to worry about learn­ing to pedal at the same time, let­ting them bike at an ear­lier age (2 years old is […]

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HABA Toy Food

February 12, 2009

I’ve always loved toy shop­ping, even before I had a child. Choos­ing gifts for nieces and nephews and think­ing about what I would have loved (or what I DID love) at their ages gave me a thrill. And I know wasn’t the only adult wish­ing I could spend an after­noon play­ing with that Bar­bie Corvette […]

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Book Review: Punished by Rewards

February 4, 2009

While brows­ing in a book­store back in the US last Novem­ber, I came upon the book Pun­ished By Rewards: The Trou­ble with Gold Stars, Incen­tive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn.  It sounded pretty inter­est­ing so I pur­chased it and pretty much devoured it.  Before writ­ing a review, I fig­ured I better […]

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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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Book Review: The Parking Lot Rules

December 30, 2008

I’m not really sure what led me to buy Park­ing Lot Rules & 75 Other Ideas for Rais­ing Amaz­ing Chil­dren.  I guess it was the glow­ing Edi­to­r­ial Reviews on Amazon.com, as I bought it a cou­ple months ago and as of today, there are only five cus­tomer reviews (4 of which gave 5 stars). When it […]

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