Finally! It’s been more than a month since my last blog post.
May has been crazy busy. It was filled with end of the year school events, concerts, decluttering, a birthday party, our 10-year Caliversary and an Instagram expat challenge organized by four fellow expat bloggers. I will write more about our Caliversary and the expat challenge soon.
Color, Listen, Read & Watch
Some ideas how to implement more of the German Selbstständigkeit (self-reliance) to your parenting.
I’ve just started working in an employee relationship last summer again and I’m grateful for that. Being self-employed and a stay-at-home mom was fine for a while, but it was time for me to get out of the house.
I listened to a great Ted Talk about about joy and where to find it.
Another reason why I ❤ Target.
I saw a few of these OMY coloring posters at my school and ordered the Germany XXL poster for my daughter’s birthday and she loves it. We all sit around the table, color together and chat. It’s a lovely gift.
We are about to enter a renovation process and this article gave me some great ideas how to Turn my expenses into point toward traveling. “How to Turn Your Renovation Into a Vacation”.
Not only after reading this article, I won’t use Uber anymore, instead I downloaded the Lyft app.
You miss German Brötchen like I do? Try this recipe, my family loved the Brötchen.
An interesting story about a woman who left the States a long time ago and won’t be coming back.
Here you can read how you can use your Netflix binge watching to learn German.
There are a number of shows on Netflix that you can watch in German.
“Charité”, “Babylon Berlin”, “The Same Sky”, “Generation War”, “The Chalet”, “Altes Geld”, “Tempel” and
“Dark”. The latter is a show from Germany, but it is apparently more popular in the rest of the world.
And here you can see all the movies you can watch in German.
Traveling
Summer is almost here and you’ll be hopefully traveling for some time. Here are some good articles for travelers.
Tools for Sleeping Well While Traveling
You’re going to Germany this summer? Here is a Guide to German etiquette.
And here’s some more about my cool home country and how it is becoming more open and diverse.
That is a great German story about a couple who has hiked 2600 km through Europe together.
Ok, that’s it. More next month. Good night, California. Good morning, Germany.
