I cannot believe our sweet Theo bear is already one year old. It's true what they say: The days are long, but the years are short! The last year is pretty much a complete blur. From what I understand, that is pretty standard for the second child! Saturday night we had a very sweet
Summer is in full swing here! It's way too hot to be outside unless you're swimming, so J and Coco have been out at the beach all day. Theo is at the age where everything goes in his mouth, so rather than lose my mind at the beach, we've been hiding inside. We get up early and close a
So it is official. After a year of telling myself, "Everything happens for a reason" and searching in vain for some hidden meaning within the awful, terrible, no good decision to leave Zürich, I have finally stopped. The jig was up when I saw this photo on Instagram. Climbers actually
I've identified a pattern we follow when moving. Where shall I begin? Really it's more of a loop. It goes something like this. First, when preparing to move, I look around our home and think to myself, or out loud to Joel, "It won't be that bad. We don't actually have that much
Last weekend I zipped through the novel Hausfrau at an astonishing rate. It was so good. The author, Jill Alexander Essbaum, is a poet and her use of alliteration, imagery and metaphor is phenomenal. The book is set in Zurich, which despite the dark subject matter, made me so homesick for the tr
