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July 22, 2010 at 11:27 am · Filed under Daydreams & Nightmares, Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Still Life & Memories, Travel Log ·Tagged life, People, summer
We are going to visit our friends in South Germany in the summer holidays and I want to share with you my absolute favorite moment whenever we visit them:
I wake up in the morning to the chirping of birds and I can hear the lovely mother, Maria, rummaging around in the kitchen downstairs making breakfast. I sneak into the bathroom, trying not to make any noise because everybody else is still sleeping. When I come down the stairs, I sit down at the kitchen table and Maria has a hot cup of tea and a piece of her freshly-baked cake ready for me. (Maria and her family eat homemade cake for breakfast, yummy!) By the time that I finish sipping on my hot tea and eat the last crumbs of the delicious cake, everybody else will have smelled the mouthwatering scent of tea and cake . They come down the stairs and sit down, read the newspaper, have breakfast and talk about what we are going to do that day. These are moments of total peace and happiness to me.
Looking forward to seeing you guys!
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May 26, 2010 at 8:22 pm · Filed under Crazy Thoughts, Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Made up Words, nature, School & Work, Word Play ·Tagged learning new things, observations, summer, they make me laugh
May is finally showing its sunny side and a lot of guys from my school walk around in shorts. My friend looked at all of the hairy man-legs and made a comment, that really cracked me up:
Oh look, they are wearing nature socks!
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April 30, 2010 at 7:33 am · Filed under Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Strangers I Know
I work at a charity shop once a week. Today we received a pile of books from someone whose titles tells a tale:
- The Yearning to be a Mother
- The Secrets of raising Happy Children
- The Differences between Boys and Girls
- The Silent Father
- Children need Borders
- The small Tyrant
- Aggression and Violence in Boys
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April 10, 2010 at 1:02 pm · Filed under Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Life in the City, Note to Self
collect all winter coats, gloves and mittens (sort our missing pairs), scarves, and headbands. Wash and store in top of cupboards for next winter- take out all spring jackets, running shoes, sandals and sunhats. Throw out those sandals that are stiff from salt water of summer past
- buy new sun umbrella for balcony
- bring up garden chairs from basement. Wash and wash again
- buy some posies in pots and place them on kitchen windowsill
buy some new sandbox utensils for visiting small folks- check books lists for light and entertaining literature
- take winter coat out of storage because it’s too damm cold outside
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December 19, 2009 at 10:33 am · Filed under Daydreams & Nightmares, Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Note to Self
Last week, I was at a party and we were talking about “The Lord of the Rings” movies and CGI and plasticine make up… a lively conversation, made merry with the consumption of a fair amount of Christmas cookies and Swedish Glögge (hot spiced wine). In amongst the conversation of elves and ogres and fairy beings and why they all seemed to have rather strange ears, someone told me a fact about growing old, that I really didn’t need to know. She said that other than hair and nails, our ears and noses continue to grow and grow throughout our whole lives.
I didn’t think this could be true, for it would mean that old people must wander around with monster ears. Yet, sadly, the bus rides to work this week produced a whole slew of examples of elderly with exactly this problem. Was I the only person oblivious of this fact? I’m trying to think what I can do with my saucer ears if I grow old, the gods willing, other than use them to prop up my Princess Leia hair piece. Do you have any suggestions?
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October 31, 2009 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Life in the City ·Tagged Halloween
I’m going to a Halloween party today! Yaaaay! Haven’t been to one since I was 8. I’m going to be a vintage Zombie, wearing one of my dad’s old suit jackets! This is going to be so much fun. In Germany practically nobody does Halloween, so this is a big deal for me. 
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August 28, 2009 at 5:13 pm · Filed under Family & Friends ·Tagged kids, observations, People
Shazaam! I got my very first fanmail! My mum and I were eating lunch at a cafe with one our friends and her two daughters and her youngest daughter Maria-Lisa wrote me this on a napkin:
For Sara
From Cookie
my nik name is cookie
( now on the other side of the napkin:)
From Maria-Lisa
Vor Sara:
You are priti
you are nice
you are gud
I like yu sara.
(isn’t that cute?)
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August 27, 2009 at 1:11 pm · Filed under Doings of the Day, Family & Friends ·Tagged kids, learning new things, observations, Short description
There is a surprise* waiting for Sara in her room. She is downstairs talking to some of her school friends, who she met by accident just outside our home. I haven’t breathed a word to her about this belated birthday present from her grandmother. Julien placed it on her table while we were in town, so that the next time she walks into the room there it will be. TaTaa!
30 minutes later… Sara’s still outside chatting away. My son and I are trying to remain nonchalant. I’m not doing a good job of it l. Thinking that maybe I’ll tell her that someone is on the phone for her. But, then what do I say when she comes up and there isn’t anyone on the phone?
Boy, can teenagers ever talk!
* a new sewing machine
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