January 2001

Excuse Us, Please

30 January 2001

Andrea, next time you come to Lüllau for a visit, you don’t have to stand outside barefoot in the cold. Come on in! Wörme, where Andrea’s cousin lives, is literally within walking distance from us (at leasfor Germans, I don’t think most Americans would walk that far). Wörme has a 50-year old organic farm, an [...]

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Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you

29 January 2001

Today, my home office day, the bear ate me. Or maybe I’m just tired from the weekend, since both days Mama I worked and I was in charge of the boy. Christopher has learned several new tricks. One is to pull his bib up over his head during mealtimes. If I pull the bib back [...]

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Only Time Will Tell

28 January 2001

In case you couldn’t tell, I got interrupted last night. Now I forgot what I was going to write. Andrea wrote about the German dairy product Quark. If I had known the English name was “curd”, I never would have tried it. I’d describe Quark as a cross between yogurt and sour cream, not at [...]

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Only Time Will Tell

27 January 2001

Has it really been a week? So it has.

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Tiger of Magic

21 January 2001

We just returned from Hannover, where Mama’s company held a reception for their franchisees. The inauguration was on the hotel TV (4 different channels and languages) as we dressing, and at dinner I was asked about this strange and foreign ritual. One woman said that, watching without sound, the miitary parade, dark coats, somber faces [...]

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On Our Way Out the Door

20 January 2001

We put some new bath pictures from this morning at PhotoPoint under 2001/01. German Link (to see what Mama is facing at work): Hamburg Abendblatt Dreikampf um Deutschland Die Hamburger-Ketten leiden unter der BSE-Krise (Three-way fight for Germany: the hmburger chains are suffering from the BSE crisis).

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End of the Day

19 January 2001

Today was an extra day home with Christopher. I was able to get some work done, mostly because I was up at 5 and Christopher slept in until 10:30. Today was also Mama’s meeting with her new Überboss, the meeting she has been preparing for the past three weeks. She thought that he would have [...]

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Catch as Catch Can

15 January 2001

All-Star Bobby Car Wrestling! See all the highlights at PhotoPoint! Hey, Mama sold the Fiat! The price was a little less than she wanted, but I’ve got the big brown bills laying next to me as I type this. Mama took ‘store tours’ both Saturday and Sunday, so I spent the weekend (as well as [...]

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Letter Home

13 January 2001

Hi Mom and Dad, Thanks for the Email… you’re right, we haven’t been taking enough pictures lately. We’ll try to take some this weekend. We tried calling a couple of times this week, but didn’t find you home at noon (evenings for us). BSE = Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease. It’s all over [...]

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Where Did Our Love Go?

11 January 2001

This is what PapaScott thinks we look like as Stor Troopers. (First noticed at Sing Blue Silver.) Whoa, we’re still trying get our bodies and souls into the rhythm of DIOKODC (double income, one kid on day care). Right now we’re mostly tired and sometimes a little frustrated. So our postings have been on the lean side [...]

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Sleeping Vertically

6 January 2001

In the ‘Strange Manila Tricks’ department, with the IncludeHttp macro I can include someone’s else’s weblog in one of my pages. Or even include my weblog on one of their pages. (Warning: my orange background graphic and font settings override Andrea’s blue backgroud color and font settings in some browsers.)

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Working eek

5 January 2001

10 pm It was a long and frustrating day. Christopher was restless, constantly seeking attention. I couldn’t concentrate on work at all. Our entire day care plan will fall apart if I can’t get work done on the days I’m with Christopher at home. I had the feeling that there was no way I could [...]

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oh-three oh-one oh-one

3 January 2001

After two days of work, Mama finally knows what she will be doing. But she can’t tell anyone yet. But she’s excited. Scott’s tired. So is Christopher, but he’s already asleep.

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The adventure begins

2 January 2001

5:50 am The first day of the rest of our lives. We’re both awake and ready to go! Christopher gets to sleep in until 6:30.

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Happy New Year

1 January 2001

Happy New Year from the three of us here in Lüllau! Mama’s 1 year (actually 14 months) of maternity leave is now officially over. Today is a holiday; she starts work tomorrow. Task 1: getting to the office without a car, so she can drive her company car home. Actually, Task 0 (tomorrow and 3 [...]

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