Welcome to our life!

Hi, I'm Allison! I'm a thirtysomething, freshly baked, stay-at-home mom. I'm originally from Connecticut, now living in Germany, hence the name of the blog. I live in southern Germany with my German husband and our baby boy. Life has turned out to be nothing I ever expected, and am so incredibly happy with it! We certainly do have a lot of laughs! I hope you will enjoy following our new experiences raising a little half American/ half German in a little German town.

Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009

Joern's Birthday!

Joern's 35th birthday was on the 27th of May. We had a very quiet celebration with my in-laws, because I had to work until 8 pm, and because we were headed to Italy that weekend to celebrate.
We met my in-laws in Nuertingen at a wonderful little Greek restaurant for dinner. Afterwards, we came home, and Joern got to dig in to his birthday cake, Paula Deen's caramel cake. It was by far, the easiest cake experience I have ever had- maybe because it was my 5th year of making the cake!

Joern's present from me was a meat slicer for his very precious Parma Prosciutto.
I am excited to see what this year has in store for Joern.
Oh, and even though its been almost a month, Happy Birthday again Joern. The celebration shouldn't stop :) I love you!

Montag, 15. Juni 2009

I'm hiding

Not really, but I haven't been around in a long time. School is over in 11 more days, so expect lots more detailed and exciting posts at the beginning of July. But, it has been busy here. On May 27th, Joern celebrated his 35th birthday. We enjoyed a Paula Deen caramel cake. On the 29th, Joern, Marcel, and I made our way to Parma for the long weekend here. We spent two days outside of Parma at our B&B and then went to Portovenere, on the Ligurian coast for a day.
Our 8th anniversary was on June 9th. We had a pretty quiet celebration, and enjoyed a delicious dinner of filet mignon and fresh pasta with traditional balsamic vinegar. Our desert were cupcakes that I prepared for work the following day, as June 10th was our last day of work before my birthday.
June 11th was a holiday here- of course, it was my 30th birthday! And we were lucky enough to be given June 12th, a Friday, off as well. With the amazing gift of a four day weekend coinciding with my big birthday, I decided Paris was an excellent destination! We left around 8 pm on Wednesday night, and made it in to Paris at 2 am. It was incredible to see the Eiffel Tower from bed as I woke up on my birthday morning! My birthday was spent meandering around Paris, with nothing really big in mind. We did have a dinner cruise on the Seine booked for Thursday night, which we ended up missing because we were stuck in traffic (our hotel on Thursday night was 30 minutes outside of Paris, and we had no idea traffic into Paris on a Thursday night would be so bad.) On Friday morning, I called the boat company, and rescheduled the dinner cruise for July 4th. You will read the full story in the upcoming weeks. Friday, we slept incredibly late, enjoying our plush king sized bed in our HUGE suite! We went to a mall for a little while, then returned to Paris for the afternoon. We walked along the Champs-Elysees all the way down to the Louvre, and enjoyed the Louvre's late Friday evening hours. On Saturday, we made our way out of Paris to Reims, in the Champagne area of France. We visited two Champagne houses, Ruinart and Mumm. Both were interesting. Ruinart also makes fabulous champagne! We drank lots of wonderful champagne and enjoyed exploring the town of Reims. We came home on Sunday, and were glad that we took it easy over the weekend. I'm also incredibly excited to return to Paris in 3 week's time.
In all, it was a wonderful 30th birthday. It was so much more than I ever could have imagined!!