In case you didn’t know, it is National Window Cleaning Week in Poland. I’m just kidding it is the week before Easter, but take a look around and you’ll see what I mean. I remember my first Easter in…
Monthly Archives:
March 2010
When your child starts school, well, Pre-school in our case, everybody tells you to expect at least a year of sick kid. What they forget to tell you is, that also means a year of sick mom. Since Lizzie…
I remember the first time I met Misiu’s ex. And she wasn’t his ex at the time. There was the first time I was supposed to meet her. She had invited me through Misiu to go to the swimming…
I’m not gonna say it was a love story, an epic romance for all time, because if you knew me, you’d have trouble putting together the idea of me, silly me, with the idea of a love story and…
We’ve got 2 birthdays and Easter coming up and a kid on a no-milk, no-wheat, no-eggs elimination diet. What about the birthday cake?!? Not only do I not know what to do about the cake, I also don’t know…
Lizzie asked me yesterday in an exasperated voice, “Mommy, where’s that Spring and the rainbows?” She didn’t really believe me when I told her that Spring is on the way especially because I told her the same thing 2…
Of all the things a parent is bound to experience with a child, we can check off an important one from our list - our first visit to the ER.…
There are many methods for learning a language. Unfortunately, there are no magic methods. Part of my job is to balance out the methods I like to use and think are effective with the methods my students are used…
Polish is a difficult language. I know with that statement I am not “discovering America” (nie odkrywam Ameryki) as you say in Polish, but it is worth stating. When I first came to Poland, I didn’t know a word…
Or should I say, International Women’s Day (or Woman’s Day), except we don’t celebrate in the States and most people there have never heard of it. If you are planning to celebrate this day and you are a man,…
