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A snow day in Brussels ;)
What an eventful few hours we had last night! here's the timeline: 3pm - Hubby texts me from Antwerp where he's working saying it will...
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Feb 4, 20122 min read


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Feb 2, 20120 min read


sick day{s}.. 3 and counting
Ok, maybe my post about us going anywhere in any weather was a bad idea! Turns out it was probably the nail in the coffin of my...
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Feb 1, 20121 min read


La Porte Bleue: Le Vestiaire (the dressing room)
Barcelona, Istanbul, Alcace France, Cologne, Amsterdam, Cinque Terre and Florence, oh and that 11 day cruise to Northern Europe.. See,...
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Jan 30, 20121 min read


the way I figure it, we have 2 choices:
1. Stay indoors and hibernate until the grey, chilly weather has passed.. OR 2. Hit the ground running, since our time here is limited...
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Jan 29, 20122 min read


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Jan 27, 20120 min read
that last glance
http://v5
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Jan 26, 20121 min read
that last glance
I could have biked the kids to school in Texas. It would have been too far of a walk really, but we could have biked easily. But I was...
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Jan 26, 20122 min read


to market, to market...
We look forward to Sundays, as that's when the local market sets up in town center here in Watermael-Boitsfort. There are markets every...
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Jan 22, 20121 min read
"so, why again is there 17 kiwi in the fridge?" he asks
The grocery shopping.. it's been eating my lunch. Let me tell you a little about it. Few differences to share: 1. you must have change...
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Jan 20, 20124 min read
“so, why again is there 17 kiwi in the fridge?” he asks
http://v5 #movingtoEurope
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Jan 20, 20121 min read


skip and a hop to Ghent
our last weekend B.F. (before furniture) ;) we headed to Ghent for the day. It's a charming Flemish town (Dutch speaking) that's less...
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Jan 18, 20121 min read
and we're IN!
Sorry for the blogging hiatus. Last week, when I was on a blogging roll, we were still in a hotel, kids were back in school and I'd drop...
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Jan 16, 20122 min read
and we’re IN!
http://v5 #Belgium #Brussels
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Jan 16, 20121 min read


our great Norman conquest, and the diesel debackle ;)
So we left Paris early Thusday morning and headed strait for Caen, France, which has an incredible WWII museum. Some of it was hard to...
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Jan 12, 20121 min read


Joyeux Noel! (revisited)
Christmas in Paris.. what a fantastic way to spend our holiday! We ALWAYS go home (to Louisiana or MS) for Christmas, so we needed...
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Jan 11, 20121 min read


over the pond we go..
So I left you at our Texas adventures, leading up to early December. The movers came Dec 5th (this was their 3rd time to be scheduled),...
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Jan 10, 20121 min read


let's start at the very beginning; a very good place to start..
(can you hear fraulein Maria singing with her guitar in the background?) Today is the start of a full time blog! So for those of you who...
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Jan 9, 20123 min read


just yesterday..
the sun was shining!! Although it was cold, we bundled up and headed to our school's park and explore a little of the neighborhood by...
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Jan 5, 20121 min read


Bonne année et bonne santé!
Happy New Year and Good Health, as the French expression goes. We are back from a whirlwind adventure to France this past week. We had a...
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Jan 2, 20122 min read
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