
I hear people talking all the time, telling us “You must be rich” or did you win the Lotto? or “Oh your Mom & Dad must be paying for your trip”. Honestly this couldn’t be further from the truth and I wanted to share some tips with all of you on how we, …

Christmas time at home in Germany has always been magical, peaceful and a wonderful experience. I try to keep that tradition going in my own home and teach my children how we celebrate Christmas, the Advent season and anything that goes with it. In every home in Germany starting the last Sunday …

Each year we keep our German tradition, we create an Advents Calendar, you can check out our previous year calendars HERE or HERE. This year I decided to do something a bit different. I went and bought Acrylic Fillable Ornaments and added a dab of acrylic paint on the inside, added …

You know how much I love to introduce you to my German heritage; This week was the official opening of the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Oktoberfest is known worldwide and I thought it would be fun to bring a little bit of Germany to the US. The website is …

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Just in time for back to school I wanted to share some German Back to School Traditions. (This is my niece Rachel in Germany, my Sister made this cone for her) In Germany school starts in 1st Grade, we have Kindergarten, but that’s like Pre-school in …

Being from Germany, we have a lot of different traditions then the US. The Schultüte is one of my favorite back to school tradition. In Germany on the first day of Pre-K and then again on the first day of School, our school starts with 1st Grade, here it would be Kindergarten, each student gets [...]

I have been craving Sauerbraten for some time now. If you have no idea what Sauerbraten is, here is a recipe, it’s a German beef dish and it’s soo sooo yummy. Everyone that has been to Germany brags about Sauerbraten. The downside of the Original Sauerbraten, it takes a long time to prepare, you have [...]

In Germany, we are BIG dessert eaters, even a lot of our dinners consist of some kind of sweet dish; I found this recipe a few weeks back on one of my German Recipe Forums and just had to share it. Yet, I don’t think this would work as a dinner here in the US, [...]

Happy Thursday…. Did you miss me last week? I can not say how fast time went by and before I knew it, it was Friday and I looked at my calendar 3 times before I realized" OMG.. I missed Crock-pot Thursday"…. OOPS.. guess I’m just a Crazy Mom after all… But we are …