These are my favorite Christmas decorations bought by my mother in Poland for me and and for my sister. I like knowing that even though there is so much distance between us on the holidays, that my sister and…
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Overheard yesterday at Carrefour: Daughter to mother in the exotic fruit section, “Don’t buy kaki here. They are cheaper at Biedronka.” Who knew? Son to mother in front of the live carp tank, “Mother, if you don’t want to…
Yesterday evening, I attended the Christmas party of one of my client’s. It will be the only company Christmas party for me this year. Not that I wasn’t invited to any others, but one a year is quite enough.…
You know, I’m from the mountains of Pennsylvania. It snows there too. A lot actually, but somehow the snow never bothered me like it does here. Maybe that’s because like a typical American, I pretty much drove everywhere. I…
I could possibly be the worst parent in the world. Well, maybe not the world but the worst parent on my street this side of Żabka at least. I did not get my children anything for St. Nicholas Day…which…
Heck, if I know. I can’t smell a thing and it has been that way for over a week. I have bronchitis (diagnosed) and I think a sinus infection (undiagnosed). The result of which is that I have a…
Who doesn’t like to get a present? I mean everybody likes presents. I remember as a child receiving a doll with long, blonde hair that was taller than me that I absolutely loved. I remember a doll house which…
I think we all know the Christmas tradition of hanging a sprig of mistletoe and standing under it all puckered up waiting for a stray kiss to come your way. No? Just me? I loved this tradition when I…
If you think that 4 dishes of carp (which I don’t like) is enough fish for my mother-in-law on Christmas Eve, then you would be wrong. There’s also herring which I also don’t like. Misiu and the girls love…
Misiu comes from the carp capital of Lower Silesia, so please keep what I am going to tell you next a secret because I may get run out of town….I hate carp. It’s not even the taste that I…
