• The bells – oh my, the bells! They ring every quarter hour (even through the night) and on Sunday they go on for many minutes at a time. I can’t decide if I like them or hate them. Here’s a two minute sample if you’re interested:  • Our kitchen has mostly drawers. Without high…

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The Swiss version of Fourth of July is on August 1st. We took a quick trip up into the hills near us to a town called Einsiedeln. It was a hot day and I was a bit exhausted from building IKEA furniture – so we kept it low key and enjoyed a long lunch in…

I bought this toilet paper just because I couldn’t help myself.

The last few days have been a blur. A blur of movers and unpacking and going to the grocery store everyday and building IKEA beds. It’s starting to feel slightly less chaotic around our apartment now. There are always those moments, when I move, when I feel so overwhelmed by the stuff. I just have…

Brian sent these photos – somewhere not too far from our apartment – can’t remember where he told me. My next post will be from our new home!

I’ve had a lump in my throat for about a week now. Saying good-bye to familiar things and people – why is it so hard? The roadside flowers were so colorful, so pretty driving away from Midland. We leave tomorrow. I can’t write anymore because it will just start me crying again and besides I…

We are wrapping up our time in Michigan. We’ll head back to Wilmette soon to finish up a few things and say a last good-bye to our friends and then we finally move to Zurich next week. Here are a some photos from this nice week with Grandma C.:

We found out yesterday that our shipment of stuff won’t arrive until the day the girls and I arrive in Switzerland. The plan was for the stuff to be there before we got there, but I guess things don’t always work out. Poor Brian has been living in a very sparse apartment, he is ready…

We dug out the slide projector and the boxes of slides at mom’s house. The girls were really interested in loading the slides in the projector and pushing the button to advance the picture. Later mom and Jennifer and I kept the girls awake with our roaring laughter. So fun to see those old photos…