Germany

An Evening at Esslingen’s Premier Dinner en Blanc

We had such a wonderful evening at Esslingen’s first Diner en Blanc, hosted by the Esslingen Lion’s Club. It was a beautiful evening with great company, atmosphere, food, and live jazz. We even made some new friends. Let me tell you all about it! Diner en Blanc originated in Paris and cities do their own versions. You dress all in white and bring your own three course meal for an elegant picnic at a public space in the city. The Lions Club made the Esslingen Schwörhof glow in beautiful light as they provided paper lanterns strung above, tables and chairs […]

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I Walked Away from my Wildly Successful Career and Don’t Regret It

I walked away from a wildly successful, 16 year career to be a stay at home mom. The first few times I told colleagues that out loud, I had a hard time saying it. I felt like being a ‘stay at home mom’ wasn’t a good enough reason to quit (I had a lot to work through). For the last two years out of my 16 year career, I truly loved my job and was pretty damn good at it. I was an agile product owner for a data integration group, where I led a team of data scientists and […]

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Esslingen in Spring

We have been absolutely loving the recent spring weather. The sun is (sometimes) shining and there’s beautiful bursts of pink, bright yellow, and white popping up around us – I’ve been soaking up every minute. Our backyard is in bloom and it brings me so much joy! This is one good thing about moving to a new house in the winter – so much excitement as things start popping up around you. Our garden is full of daffodils, a few tulips, and a huge magnolia tree. In the summer there will be lots of roses and I’m sure more surprises. […]

Germany

Happy 2025 to You

Hello and happy new year! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and are starting the new year refreshed. I certainly am! We had a jam-packed 2.5 weeks off, and in one week we moved houses, celebrating Christmas, celebrated twin birthdays, and the next morning headed to the alps to ski for a week. It was an insanely packed week and we only forgot to bring one suitcase to the mountains in the madness 😉 thankfully David was able to drive 2 hours across the mountains to find contacts and it turned out to be a success. 🙂 Spending […]

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Vineyard Family Picnic

One of my favorite ways to get out of the house is to take a family picnic. This can be as simple as eating in your backyard, at your local park, or my personal favorite, in the vineyards! I’ve posted a bunch about how I absolutely adore the Untertürkheim vineyards, and how lucky we are that they are so close to us! It was a beautiful autumn weekend here in Stuttgart and we decided to spend our Sunday picnicing in the vines. I quickly made PB&Js, sliced a few bell peppers and threw in a package of hummus (my kids […]

Austria

Austrian Alpine Summer Playgrounds – Holiday with Children

I found myself craving a summer holiday with our three small children and began searching what we could possibly do that would be fun for the kids, the least amount of hassle for the adults, where we would ALL be entertained for multiple days on end, and is stroller friendly. Does this magical formula exist? I am happy to say a resounding YES, it does! I present you the Austrian alps and their glorious alpine playgrounds. Austrian Alps with Kids The Austrian alps have entered the chat! Let me tell you that the Austrian alps are the most kid friendly […]

Germany

Hi Again

She’s back 🙂 Hi friends, it’s been a long time, but I’m back in action and want to share our adventures with you again. Since I stopped posting about our travels, we moved to Charleston South Carolina, had a handful of kids, and moved back to Stuttgart when our twins were just four months old. We moved around a lot within Stuttgart with a toddler and infant twins (this is a saga for another time) and now our youngest are almost two years old and I find that I have a few minutes of free time again… which means more […]