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April 2015

Life in Poland

Easy peasy birthday party

Our baby Rosie is seven. I know everyone says it, but seriously, where’d the time go? Because Rosie spent her actual birthday at her Dziadek’s funeral, we decided to invite a couple of friends over this weekend for a…

Life in Poland

No funerals, no vomit hands

We got a chance to spend the weekend together. No funerals. Our weekend always starts the same with a drive from the city to the village. Occasionally we spot a deer or fox or wild pig on the way, but…

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Not what I was expecting

We spent last Easter in the US with my family. Rosie got her birthday cake on board the plane along with a card signed by the whole crew. She promptly vomited it all up, but the thought was very…

Life in Poland

Zombies are people, too.

We are not religious. Not religious may be putting it lightly. I don’t mean that we just go to church or temple for the big holidays. Our attendance is much less frequent than that, as in we only go…

Life in Poland

The Easter Bunny

We don’t celebrate Easter like everyone else. There’s no Stations of the Cross for us or blessing our basket of food on Good Saturday or even Resurrection Mass on Easter Sunday. But there is time spent together, good food,…