What do you have planned this weekend? We are getting sweet Theo bear's birthday started early with a little party tomorrow night. I'm worried it's going to be so hot I won't be able to properly frost his cake , but we'll find a way! My baby boy is turning two. This is bittersw
Tomorrow I'm sending Theo and Coco's first baby shoes off to be bronzed. How is it possible that Theo has already outgrown his baby shoes and next week he turns two?! It feels like the end of an era. But, I hope that by bronzing their baby shoes, we've found a way to hold onto and
Last week, we went on the most magical camping trip at Priest Lake State Park. If you've been reading Swiss Lark since we were in Switzerland, then you know that our first attempt at camping as parents was enough to turn us off from ever camping with a baby again! Now that Theo is almost t
Doris Pfaffinger is a Lecturer in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University. She and her husband, Christian, both grew up in Bavaria and met for the first time in Regensburg, Germany, where they both went to study. During their separate adventures pursu
During the year I lived in Minnesota (well, actually, it was more like 10 months, but let's go ahead and call it a year) I encountered a lot of things I had never encountered before. J and I were sucked into a toxic spiral spun by a group of people who told lies truthfully and believed in the
